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I just bought a laptop Acer Aspire V11 (500 GB hardrive, 4GB RAM) with Windows 8 installed on it.

I want to replace Windows with Kubuntu.

I set the boot order to USB and created a bootable USB with Kubuntu 14.04 iso on it to install.

When I boot from the USB it looks like it is using EFI mode (black screen with only 3 options).

At the Disk setup step I chose to use all disk available for Kubuntu Once the installation finished the computer cannot boot Kubuntu. Windows has been completely erased.

It looks like the Kubuntu installation has erased all the partitions and now the computer is not even able to boot on the hard drive.

Should I make a specific partition scheme? Is this something to do with the EFI?

Anwar
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I made a new stick with Ubuntu 14.04

In Bios Boot option I changed to legacy boot for HDD

Then from the live Ubuntu I started the install option and chose Something Else to do manual partitioning

Installed GRUB to /dev/sda (I think the first time I did /dev/sda1 which may explain why it was not booting)

Primary partition Ext4, mount point / with all space less 4 GB (my RAM) Logical partition as Swap with 4 GB

That's all. I will install Kubuntu desktop from here.

Zanna
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