I have set a 60gb partition and formatted it. I have my virtual Budgie open (it works brilliantly and I love it). I have read the help tabs and ticked ‘dual boot’, but when I click ‘Install’ nothing happens.
It’s a Haswell I3 with 16gb memory, Windows 7. Any help would be seriously appreciated.
Hi @Trudi!
I don’t have a technical answer to your question, other than a question of my own: Have you disabled “Secure Boot” in BIOS?
Rather than using that automated installation mode — which I don’t trust all that much, having found that it can cause quite a few problems, especially if you have to try it several times — I’d advise you to choose “Manual installation.”
And since I’m not a fan of the installer’s disk manager either, I’d suggest you start by launching GParted — which is included in the live session — and prepare the partition where you’ll install Ubuntu: in GParted’s graphical interface, you can clearly see what you’re doing, and it’s not very complicated.
Next, select the partition in question under “Manual Installation,” leave the boot manager in its default location, and start the installation.
I’ve been doing it this way for a long time and I recommend it to Linux beginners.
I can explain it in more detail if you’d like.
Hi and welcome,
I would double check that you chkdsk run from Win 7 is not reporting any issues - depending upon how you did the partitioning, the ntfs part that Win 7 is running on may have an issue that chkdsk can fix and clear.
Thank you, that option is open in windows, I will redo it.
Yes, Boot is registering as ‘Bios’. Thank you so much for your help.
I’ve given up the hope of overwriting windows or dual booting, I think now the only option is to get another drive. I shall ponder my options for a while. And maybe try other upgrades. Discourse thinks I’m running XP which may be a hint.
Much obliged to you.
I’m not really sure why you’d want to replace your hard drive to fix this problem.
Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 still works fine with an i3 and an HDD, even if it’s obviously a bit sluggish.
Why don’t you try creating a partition with GParted, like I suggested?
Good morning, Jean, thank you for helping me, it’s appreciated.
I did create a partition, as I said in OP.
There is news: I decided to back my virtual system up to my USB having put so much effort into it again. A box came up ‘do you want to install’?
Do you want to replace windows? I said no to that, and set it for my partition but it’s loaded into the windows partition and isn’t showing by name anywhere. It didn’t set a restore point.
Oops, yeah, I read too quickly, and English isn’t my first language…
That said, you didn’t mention what file system you used to format that 60 GB partition. For a standard Linux installation, it’s ext4.
In any case, open a live session, launch GParted, right-click on the partition, select “Delete,” and press “Ctrl+Enter” to apply the change.
Then right-click on the unallocated space that replaced the partition, select “New,” click “Add,” and press “Ctrl+Enter” to create a new partition formatted as ext4.
I have to admit that I really don’t understand the situation, what you were trying to do, or why you got that response.
That said, I think it must be possible to install UB, but I’d prefer that we do this via PM.
If you’re up for it, send me a PM. We’ll post a summary afterward.