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I wanted to wipe Windows 10 off my laptop and just have Ubuntu on it. I had heard that it was safe to install it on UEFI hardware so I just went through the standard install and told Ubuntu to erase everything and install Ubuntu. Once it successfully installed and I rebooted I got a screen telling me to "reboot and select proper Boot device or insert boot media in selected Boot device and press a key"

The hard drive is selected to be the #1 boot device and there is no drive in the computer when I boot it. I've tried turning off secure boot and using CSM instead of UEFI but it still won't boot. Can someone tell me what to do?

E. Carr
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I had the same problem with a toshiba computer. after many attempts at reformatting and partitioning the drive. It turned out that the system requires a 1 GB recovery partition at the beginning of the internal drive.

my fix was to use the windows recovery CD's I had made to partition the disk. don't install windows, just set disk up.then remove all partitions except the first.(it is usually flagged as hidden system, or hidden recovery).

then install ubuntu using the free space.

ravery
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