Dual boot with windows 8 (raid)

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I know there are quite a lot of other posts like these, but I really read all of them and I still couldn't solve my problem.

I recently got a dell with a 1TB hdd disk and a 32gb ssd disk (using RAID) installed with windows 8 and now I want to install ubuntu 13.04 in the hdd disk.

The problem is that it seems that ubuntu can`t recognize the partitions on the drive. When I start ubuntu installation, no partitions are shown: http://postimg.org/image/otkjg28ot/

And if I try to open Gparted I get the following error: http://postimg.org/image/q9w1y7blp/

And clicking in cancel, it recognizes the disk as an unallocated disk.

Any help would be really appreciated, thanks!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 23 '13 at 14:26

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The Intel Matrix Storage fakeraid SSD caching setup is unsupported in Linux. You will have to destroy the raid and use the disks independently to dual boot.

answered Sep 23 '13 at 14:26

psusi

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '13 at 12:13

Just to post my solution. I entered in Windows 8 and disabled the raid by disabling the Aceleration function in the Intel software. Once I did that, the raid was disabled and then ubuntu could recognize the partitions of the hard drive. Then I installed ubuntu, and then later reactivated the RAID for windows.

Thank you.

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 23 '13 at 14:35

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Maybe you can choose "something different" in the installation dialog. But for this, first make a partition in windows and select it in Ubuntu. So i got Ubuntu 13.04 on my windows8 pre-installed laptop.

edited Sep 23 '13 at 14:35

Braiam

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answered Sep 23 '13 at 13:30

user195392

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