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My old Aspire laptop died, so I bought a Dell Inspiron 3793. This has a 512GB SSD and a spare drive bay. Problem is they somehow locked the SSD so when I boot off the Kubuntu 18.04 LiveDVD the drive is always read-only, so I cannot install Kubuntu.
I've looked all over for HOWTOs and even called Dell Support and gotten no answers especially from Dell.
I'm hoping someone out there has had the same problem and can refer me to the proper HOWTO resource I need to solve this problem!
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So the drive still has Windows on it and that filesystem needs to be fixed it would seem.
Does Windows boot and work?
Another option is to try this command from the liveDVD
Code:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda
assuming sda is the drive.
Or try deleting the partition with the liveDVD, reboot and try installing again.
So the drive still has Windows on it and that filesystem needs to be fixed it would seem.
Does Windows boot and work?
Another option is to try this command from the liveDVD
Code:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda
assuming sda is the drive.
Or try deleting the partition with the liveDVD, reboot and try installing again.
uteck,
Winduhs will boot if a pile of 25 year behind trash is what I want, but I only run Linux!
I'll see if I can get the terminal and execute the cmd!
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try
Code:
ls /dev/sd*
to list your drives. I forgot to include the partition number in my previous post. should have posted sda1. Assuming that is correct, but you might have a recovery image there, so main Windows C: partition might be sda2.
Post output of lsblk when you get a chance, that'll tell us exactly what your drive is. I'm thinking it might be a bitlockered nvme drive from what you posted.
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GPGAgent,
I think the issue is that the installer wants to offer to shrink the Windows partition so it can dual-boot, but is not smart enough to fix the NTFS if there are errors and just errors out instead.
GPGAgent,
I think the issue is that the installer wants to offer to shrink the Windows partition so it can dual-boot, but is not smart enough to fix the NTFS if there are errors and just errors out instead.
TBotNik said earlier
"Winduhs will boot if a pile of 25 year behind trash is what
I want, but I only run Linux!
I'll see if I can get the terminal and execute the cmd!
Cheers!
TBNK"
So when you select install one of the disk options is to use the entire disk, this will repartition it and so on.
TBotNik, have you got this far and tried to use the entire drive?
to list your drives. I forgot to include the partition number in my previous post. should have posted sda1. Assuming that is correct, but you might have a recovery image there, so main Windows C: partition might be sda2.
uteck,
Same error set!
I sure you did not think this out because the "Try Kubuntu" option loads the OS into a temp RAM filesystem of "tmpfs" and until I have the right CHROOT cmd to actually change over to the SSD, I will see nothing from any of these cmds.
We used to have to use "CHROOT" all the time, because the OS crashed a lot, needing recovery from the LiveDVD, but been so long ago, I forgot all that. Guess I'll have to stop and look up a HOWTO on CHROOT for Windows.
I sure you did not think this out because the "Try Kubuntu" option loads the OS into a temp RAM filesystem of "tmpfs" and until I have the right CHROOT cmd to actually change over to the SSD, I will see nothing from any of these cmds.
What?
Why those half-baked explanations when you can just try it?
Disable whatever you need to disable in BIOS and install Kubuntu.
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