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I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and after several weeks I felt uncomfortable with Ubuntu and decided to go back to Windows. Windows installation is okay until I noticed something odd.

It takes too long to install Windows. After the "completing installation" step is finished, my laptop will reboot and then it says...

A disk read error occured, Press CTRL + ALT + DEL to restart

So I decided to install Ubuntu again, I've searched for fix around the internet but no success. I've tried to change the table type to MS-DOS, but not success.

Also, I noticed it takes longer time to install Windows than Linux OS, I've tried Mint and Ubuntu, they had the same installation speed compared to Windows that took up to 8 hours.

Is something wrong with my hard drive? Oh, I also formatted my hard drive (with Windows 10 in it) before installing Ubuntu.

Ubuntu works perfectly fine in my laptop.

Here's a GParted screenshot: enter image description here

Lorenz Keel
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kokolacio
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Boot from an Ubuntu bootable media, and check the hard disk for errors. At least take a look to the S.M.A.R.T. values with the Disk Utility. If it isn't installed:

sudo apt-get install gnome-disk-utility

If everything looks OK, clean your hard disk with dd, assuming that the hard disk is /dev/sda:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

Depending of the size of the disk it will take a while. After finish, switch off the computer and reboot with your Windows 10 installation media, and install that OS. It should work.

Frantique
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