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06-30-2017, 07:57 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2017
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unable to install linux operating system
hi friends, my name is nanda and i am huge fan of linux operating system and from couple of months i am trying to install linux OS but unable to do it, please help to resolve with your techincal and expertise knowledge
my specs
lenovo g500s laptop
1 TB hard disk
8GB ram
win 7 OS
my prombles are
1. while dual booting linux mint or ubuntu it is not recognising existing windows OS
2, while booting with custom drive installation, it is showing full Hard Disk as empty and procceding with it, leads to data loss.
note:- i need windows OS for some softwares.
thanks for listing to my query, help me friends, thank you.
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06-30-2017, 09:15 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,632
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Please clarify: Is it that you have installed Linux and Grub doesn't see the Windows side of the computer, as your post seems to imply, or are you unable to install Linux at all, as your thread title states?
If it's the later, you might try running update-grub. https://askubuntu.com/questions/2811...un-update-grub
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1 members found this post helpful.
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06-30-2017, 10:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Maryland-Pennsylvania border, USA
Distribution: openSUSE 15.2/15.3, Tumbleweed, Kubuntu 18.04/21.04, macOS 10.15, antiX 19, and Linux Mint 19.3
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Did you already delete your Windows partition? Is there a way you could pull up a terminal and show the output of "sudo fdisk -l" as well as looking into frankbell's suggestion?
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06-30-2017, 11:55 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2017
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when i am installing linux mint - partition drive does not detect present partitions available on hard disk, it is showing 1TB hard disk as free, when i am trying to install linux in that mode, i am lossing all my data.
what i want is installing linux along win-7 when full harddisk is showing free space.
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07-01-2017, 05:21 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2012
Location: Mauritius
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 567
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Hi nanda and welcome to LQ,
Ok, so you can install Linux, but the installation USB/DVD does not see your Windows partition. Are you using Gparted?
I am assuming that you have recovery media so that you can restore your Windows; after resetting your laptop to its original state, can you please boot the Linux USB/DVD, can you please open a terminal and post the output of the following commands:
(Please use the [CODE] construct: it is the # icon in the Advanced Editor)
Code:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
fdisk -l /dev/sda
gdisk -l /dev/sda
Last edited by aragorn2101; 07-01-2017 at 05:24 AM.
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07-02-2017, 09:07 AM
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well in your case i would make a separate logical partition for linux and a efi partition as well. if you dont know how to do that just boot the live image and in installation try the "something else" option. for helps just google it.after the installation just google and take some knowledge about "grub chainloading".i hope you will get it soon....
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