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Total newbie here. I want to install Ubuntu 14.04.3 alongside Win 8.1 that's already there. I'm getting the same error no matter what - "The attempt to mount a file system with type vfat in SCSI1 (0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at /boot/efi failed. I tried all of the following:

  1. Selected "install ubuntu alongside windows..." - result is that installation stalls.
  2. Selected "something else" and tried creating 3 manual partitions: ~45GB for root ("/") as ext4, ~17GB for swap, ~30GB as ext4 for "/home". Result - the above error message.
  3. Somebody had suggested partitioning using GParted and then running installer.. Tried this too, but GParted doesn't let me partition as "Logical".. I only see "primary".. But, even then in GParted, I don't see an option to set "/" or "/home" etc.. So I got to do this in the installer? If yes, then what's the point in partitioning beforehand?

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

VinVin
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You probably need to disable a Windows feature called Fast Startup, as described here (among other places):

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html

This feature turns a shutdown operation into a suspend-to-disk operation. The result is often filesystem corruption or an inability to mount shared partitions (including the EFI System Partition, or ESP) from non-Windows OSes.

If disabling Fast Startup doesn't do the job by itself, then I recommend you run a filesystem check on the ESP, as oldfred suggests.

Rod Smith
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Don't know if this will help much, but, when i tried to install ubuntu on a machine that had windows 7 already, I first also tried to create a "ext4" partition manually. This didn't work. Then, I tried to create a "ext3" partition manually. That did the trick. However, before completing the installation of ubuntu, the system froze a few times. Then everything worked all right.

Nate River
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