misterAnderson
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Hello to everyone!
I am trying to install Ubuntu onto a machine with an installed Win10. In the "Something Else" section i cant find my windows C: drive so that i can delete it and say goodbye and install Linux
Relevant specifications:
A. BIOS Legacy, not UEFI
B. 1 HDD which is Dynamic
C. 4 partitions (1. system, 2. custom with my data, 3. and another custom one with my data which is for some reason split into 2 with the same letter in the disk manager, but not in the My PC window = 4 in total)
D. The pen drive was formatted with a BIOS target.
What i already know:
I. I have read that i need a basic HDD. But it is not possible if i only have one HDD with Windows on it. How do i convert it if needs to be empty, yet i need windows to do the conversion.
II. The system can only handle 4 partitions at a time, so i guess i cant create one, which i understand, but at the same time why would i not be able to delete one and create one? (4 - 1 + 1 = 4)
What i want to know:
1. How do i make my pc just simply install Linux without windows. I am currently scooping my data 250GB to another PC with a "tea spoon" 8GB flashdrive, so keeping the data is not a concern. In a day or so...
1.1 Will it be enough if i just simply choose the option "Erase disk and Install" indead of "Something Else"? How will linux handle the partitions? Will the hidden windows partition be visible for the Linux in this case, so it can wipe it away? How it will handle the partitioning? Create one big partition? Ideally i would want to have 100gigs for the system and the rest for myself. I gues i can do this afterwards?
2. Or should i do something before doing Erase disk and Install? Some disk managment on the windows i have still currently running? Wipe all except windows and do something with that?
Thanks for reading and trying to help!
I am trying to install Ubuntu onto a machine with an installed Win10. In the "Something Else" section i cant find my windows C: drive so that i can delete it and say goodbye and install Linux
Relevant specifications:
A. BIOS Legacy, not UEFI
B. 1 HDD which is Dynamic
C. 4 partitions (1. system, 2. custom with my data, 3. and another custom one with my data which is for some reason split into 2 with the same letter in the disk manager, but not in the My PC window = 4 in total)
D. The pen drive was formatted with a BIOS target.
What i already know:
I. I have read that i need a basic HDD. But it is not possible if i only have one HDD with Windows on it. How do i convert it if needs to be empty, yet i need windows to do the conversion.
II. The system can only handle 4 partitions at a time, so i guess i cant create one, which i understand, but at the same time why would i not be able to delete one and create one? (4 - 1 + 1 = 4)
What i want to know:
1. How do i make my pc just simply install Linux without windows. I am currently scooping my data 250GB to another PC with a "tea spoon" 8GB flashdrive, so keeping the data is not a concern. In a day or so...
1.1 Will it be enough if i just simply choose the option "Erase disk and Install" indead of "Something Else"? How will linux handle the partitions? Will the hidden windows partition be visible for the Linux in this case, so it can wipe it away? How it will handle the partitioning? Create one big partition? Ideally i would want to have 100gigs for the system and the rest for myself. I gues i can do this afterwards?
2. Or should i do something before doing Erase disk and Install? Some disk managment on the windows i have still currently running? Wipe all except windows and do something with that?
Thanks for reading and trying to help!