pcal
April 6th, 2015, 06:06 AM
Hi Guys,
I have a shiny brand new Toshiba Satellite 15.6" L50-B02L laptop that came with Win8.1 on a 1T HDD. I'm advised by the salesman that if I wipe Win8 completely, then I'll be wiping my warranty as well, so I want to dual boot it with an Ubuntu LTS.
I attempted to install 14.04, but the installer failed to recognise that there was an installed OS, and recommended erasing the entire HDD. I selected the "something else" option and checked the drive partition layout. It has several partitions already set up, but the main partition where W8 resides, and the boot partition are fairly obvious. I'm just a little anxious that if I start resizing partitions and setting boot partitions when the installer has failed to recognise the existing OS, that appropriate care may not be taken by the system and I'll end up trashing both Win8.1 and my warranty.
Any suggestions how to guarantee safety for my warranty?
Thanks in anticipation.
Pcal
I have a shiny brand new Toshiba Satellite 15.6" L50-B02L laptop that came with Win8.1 on a 1T HDD. I'm advised by the salesman that if I wipe Win8 completely, then I'll be wiping my warranty as well, so I want to dual boot it with an Ubuntu LTS.
I attempted to install 14.04, but the installer failed to recognise that there was an installed OS, and recommended erasing the entire HDD. I selected the "something else" option and checked the drive partition layout. It has several partitions already set up, but the main partition where W8 resides, and the boot partition are fairly obvious. I'm just a little anxious that if I start resizing partitions and setting boot partitions when the installer has failed to recognise the existing OS, that appropriate care may not be taken by the system and I'll end up trashing both Win8.1 and my warranty.
Any suggestions how to guarantee safety for my warranty?
Thanks in anticipation.
Pcal