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I have a Windows 10 Home PC with a 1 TB Samsung SS drive in it. Windows made two partitions on the drive. One is only 500 MB. It is called "NTFS Healthy (System, Active, Primary partition)". It has no drive letter.

The other partition is my C drive, and it says "Healthy (Boot,Page File,Crash dump,primary partition)".

When I boot to a flash drive with Ubuntu, and run it with out loading it onto my computer, everything seems to run fine. When I click on the button in ubuntu to install it, I get a quick flash of an error message on my screen. I had to do this about 6/8 times because the error message is on my screen less than 1 second. The error message says "ERROR File "Boot" not found".

I wish to dual boot to Windows 10 & Ubuntu. After the quick error message above, I click on the button to install Ubuntu. It can not see my C drive and it can not see that I have Widows installed.

Yesterday, I tried to delete that small 500 MB partition with a partition tool. It said it would remove my Windows OS, if I did that to the 500 mg partition, but I did not believe it. But sure enough, after I deleted it, I could no longer boot to Windows and I had to do a new install from my Windows CD.

I tried to click further into the ubuntu install and found a screen that I could not understand. I believe it was showing me all the partition on my drive, but the screen was so cryptic, I could not understand any of it.

Can someone toss me a bone? Maybe a help file is around someone can refer me to? This is day two trying to do this install...

Thanks to all for the help and feedback.

mraroid, Oregon, US

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Disclaimer I am myself no expert, but did these installing, booting, dual booting things a couple of times...

So First, can you please share a picture of what you mentioned as the cryptic screen. If am correct you are now very close to doing a dual boot, from the cryptic screen, you just needed to choose a correct partition on you hard disk, where your ubuntu will be installed.

But before you can select a partition to install Ubuntu on. You will have to first create it if it's not there already. Because as you said in windows there was only two partitions one the 500 MB one and other for the C drive. So using the disk partition application in windows you should first create a new partition by shrinking the size of your C drive partition and then you should create a new partition out of the free space that got formed after shrinking C drive.

Also you can try creating the bootable USB (for ubuntu installation) again.

Yugal
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