Originally Posted by
yancek
Not seeing the internal drive from a Linux system on a drive which has windows installed is usually because windows has been left hibernated. Make sure you have fastboot and anything related to hibernation off before beginning the install.
If windows 10 was installed when you got the computer, it is almost certainly in UEFI mode so Ubuntu would need to be installed in UEFI mode also. In that case, you should be able to boot both Ubuntu and windows from the Grub boot menu.
Check to see if you have UEFI which you can do from the the Ubuntu install DVD/USB by opening a terminal and running the command: sudo fdisk -l (lower case letter L in the command). Post the output here.
You will need to clarify what that means.
No hibernation going on. I shut down the computer, start a boot by frequently hammering the F9 button to choose the boot order and boot from the exterbal drive that's hosting Ubuntu. The problem is that there is some weird kind of low level tie between bios and win10 so no linux distro has the capability to see the internal drives. I was trying to install in UEFI mode but when I bring in a newer distro than the one I managed to install on my external drive, the computer freezes before I get to any screen that has selectable options (hence my hangs on the spot comment) and trying to do a distro upgrade from within Ubuntu the same thing happens, everything freezes. I'm wondering if I'm staring at having to live with this annoying virus that is Windows on my machine.
I can't run a liveCD or liveUSB stick, because the computer hangs now before it gets anywhere. I can boot into Ubuntu 18.04, running on an external hdd, but no internal things are visible, other than graphics, usb and hdmi. I can't even use the CD drive within Ubuntu. It's just not seen.
As for the sudo fdisk -l command:
Code:
Disk /dev/loop0: 91,3 MiB, 95748096 bytes, 187008 sectorsUnits: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop1: 173,5 MiB, 181915648 bytes, 355304 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop2: 91,4 MiB, 95805440 bytes, 187120 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop3: 202,9 MiB, 212758528 bytes, 415544 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/loop4: 174,8 MiB, 183242752 bytes, 357896 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 931,5 GiB, 1000204884992 bytes, 1953525166 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: BD7C2ACC-C85B-41DF-8A42-BC9537E2C472
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System
/dev/sda2 1050624 1953523711 1952473088 931G Linux LVM
Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--studio--vg-root: 930,1 GiB, 998638616576 bytes, 1950466048 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/mapper/ubuntu--studio--vg-swap_1: 976 MiB, 1023410176 bytes, 1998848 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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