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I followed some instructions which I found on youtube, all was going smoothly untill it said that there is no operating system installed which clearly is wrong since I have windows 10 installed. I do not want to unistall windows 10, but run Ubuntu as a dual-boot. I tried googling for answers but the problem is that I do not understand any of the instructions I find there. I do not know a thing about computers. I think I could get it to work if someone would tell me exactly what to do. That would mean the world to me. Thanks in advance

Martti Kaasalainen
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The Windows file system looks dirty to Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu installer can't see that Windows is there. This is because Windows uses a hibernation file to save the system state.

You'll need to do this in Windows:

  • open the Power control panel
  • click on change what the power buttons do
  • click on change options that are unavailable
  • uncheck fast start
  • close the Power control panel
  • open an administrative command prompt window
  • type powercfg /h off (turns off hibernation)
  • type chkdsk /f c:
  • approve that chkdsk runs at next boot time
  • reboot Windows

Then retry the Ubuntu installer and you'll probably have better luck.

heynnema
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