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It worked! By deleting the metadata for RAID it finally was able to install properly!
Thanks Guys.

The command "apt-get purge dmraid" worked will follow up.

The BIOS says that the SATA operation is set on "RAID Autodetect / ATA" and the only other option is "RAID ON"

So I ran the command in terminal and I get ERROR: ddf1:seeking device "/dev/sda" to 512104901378028, ERROR: writing metadata to /dev/sda, offset ##########(really long number) sectors, size 0 bytes...

Ops posted twice I don't know how to delete them

I don't think I'm installing with encryption the uses LVM(I have no idea what that is)
I only have one hard drive so I don't think I'm using BIOS RAID or whatever.
I have no idea if the drive was...

I don't think I'm installing with encryption the uses LVM(I have no idea what that is)
I only have one hard drive so I don't think I'm using BIOS RAID or whatever.
I have no idea if the drive was...

OK I'm just going to write what I did so if anything happens you guys canfigure out what I did incorrectly because I am fairly new to this.

1. Created extended partition with all the unallocated...

The only thing is that it won't let me click install alongside windows so I'm just going to follow sudodus' steps and see what happens.

I would like to do the partitioning just the easy way, but it skips the step where I can choose to install alongside windows and goes to the custom option(i think). It is really annoying and I just...

Ya I shrunk the partition and there is a big unallocated space on my HDD. When I try and press install thought it says, "No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning...

My computer has a 1TB HDD that had one big NTFS partition for Windows. I have managed to shrink that partition in half in gparted in the live session of lubuntu that I am running so have of the space...