Please help test the bug-fix for 'Install/reinstall wipes out all/other partitions'

[ventrical]

I could not get gparted to create an actual partition. It wanted to send some details to the developer, but , there were no details.

Ubuntu correctly identifies, formats and installs the systems on the new, cutting edge hdd in BIOS and UEFI mode. Windows 10 and Windows 8 Tech Preview seem to have a problem with the geometry of the drive but are still able to install in UEFI mode.

gparted has a problem also with the new drive. I am going to switch the drive to an older UEFI system and see if it works there. It could also be a setting I have set wrong in the BIOS of my newer MSi Mother board.

Thanks for your suggest and info research. I am looking into all this still.

Regards..

[sudodus]

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Ubuntu correctly identifies, formats and installs the systems on the new, cutting edge hdd in BIOS and UEFI mode. Windows 10 and Windows 8 Tech Preview seem to have a problem with the geometry of the drive but are still able to install in UEFI mode.

gparted has a problem also with the new drive ...

It seems Ubuntu is faster than Windows and gparted to manage your new, cutting edge hdd :-

Did you look for the newest possible version of gparted?

[ventrical]

It seems Ubuntu is faster than Windows and gparted to manage your new, cutting edge hdd :-

Did you look for the newest possible version of gparted?

Seems that this could be a possible fix. I have to take small break as my service provider notified me and told me I was way over my b/w limit for this month.

Regards..

[ventrical]

I just wanted to document this here.

I softbricked the hdd to the point where my newer UEFI system would not boot until I removed the new hdd. I then put it in another, older Intel UEFI system and I have it running up once again. I used gparted to resize the Windows partiton. All went well until I tried to create a swap drive. I think then also it overwrote a file on the live USB drive of xubuntu - so i will have to re-burn that.. so this new technology is real fun

As you can see the information reported in gparted is not the same as reported in ubiquity <something else>.

Since I have now crashed the live xubuntu system I will burn the daily and try an install with that.

[sudodus]

How did you create the USB boot drive? If you flash the iso to USB with mkusb, it will be a read-only ISO9660 file system, and should not be allowed to be overwritten.

[ventrical]

SDC on 10.10 , discard on shutdown. I think that the Windows 10 OS fired something at the USB stick. I have the drive installed now on older UEFI system .. but it completely locked up my new system.

I will be testing this later

[ventrical]

I had found out that the problem is that I was NOT using the 'extend' option in the Windows 10 Installer. Windows Installer is not intuitive, such as is xubuntu (daily-live/current 15.04). So now it appears that I cn hard install and resize the partition, however, the Windows 10 Installer warned me that it could not be changed. Let's see what happens

[ventrical]

Keeping it simple

edit:

Just making a note that this was a success after using 'extend' from windows installer. If you do not use extend then Ubuntu cannot use the free extra space left over.