Also see meta-bug Bug #1037351 Could not install Ubuntu for the installer did not see my windows installation and existing gpt partitions. It wanted to install on the full hard drive space! By doing so, i would have destroyed both my windows installation and recovery partition! This is very serious for inexperienced users! I had to find a way to let the installer see windows. After a lot of searching forums i found a (not ideal) solution: Removing the recovery partition of windows. Apparantly the last X blocks of a hard drive should be available for Ubuntu to see windows installed. After i removed the recovery partition, in the windows partitioner, Ubuntu installed just fine on a partition i wanted to use.
Please also add to 'Installer design' documentation. There should be a double check (or a working check) to see if another OS is already installated, otherwise this could lead to data-loss for inexperienced or unconcentrated users. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1017880 Title: Windows7 EFI not detected by os-prober To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/os-prober/+bug/1017880/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
