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Thread: Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

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    Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

    Hi guys

    I bought a new HP Laptop Pavilion 16 series, which had Win 11 Home, I then upgraded it to Win 11 Pro for Workstation.
    I read many articles for Dual Boot Win 11 and Ubuntu, and still no complete success as stumbling on Ubuntu could not mount Win-11 drive

    In Windows 11, I Turned Off BitLocker, the drive gone through its process and its Turned Off now
    Fastboot is off - in Power options
    In Laptop BIOS Setup - Secure Boot is Disabled, and also Cleared All Secure Boot Keys

    Loaded Ubuntu 22.04 and used "Try Now" - which means its not installed, just trying it.
    On loading of Ubuntu, tried accessing the internal and only 1 hard drive (where Windows 11 is installed) but it gives me following error
    "Failed to mount "494 MB Volume" Error mounting /dev/loop1 at /media/ubuntu/disk: /dev/loop1 already mounted or mount point busy"

    Accessing another HD icon (same HD but probably another partition, it throws following error --
    "Failed to mount "Windows"
    Error mounting /dev/nvme0n1p3 at /media/ubuntu/Windows: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/nvme0n1p3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"

    There is nothing wrong with the Hard drive as I scanned the HD with Windows itself and other utilities - no prob with HD

    Could you please advise whats going on and how do I use inbuilt Hard drives's empty space, folders etc where I stored all my documents etc on Windows "C" drive ?

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    Re: Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

    With BitLocker disabled, Ubuntu should certainly be able to open an undamaged ntfs partition.
    Did you use Windows tools to reduce the Windows partition?
    I suggest that you boot into Windows 11:-
    Run chkdsk
    Create some free space for Ubuntu
    Power off
    Boot into Windows 11 again
    Run chkdsk again
    Power off if all seems OK
    Then boot into a "Try Ubuntu" live session and see if Ubuntu recognises the free space?

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    Re: Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

    Hi

    Thank you so much, I followed your instruction and it helped me sort this problem out.
    The only thing I would mention here is that running "chkdsk" did not really help me bu then I had to run "chkdsk /f C:" and then it all worked fine
    Now I can use that SSD in Ubuntu, so I am happy with this.

    Again thanks for the help, this solved my problem.

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    Re: Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

    Pleased to have helped.
    It's a nice gesture to mark the thread as solved to help other forum users/searchers:-
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnansweredPo.../SolvedThreads

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    Re: Dual boot - Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 22 on Windows 11 Pro for Workstation

    Yes, sure I will mark it as Solved, it was just I didnt know if something like that existed
    Thanks again

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