The HDD had windows 7 before, with 2 partitions C: and D:. Yes, there is a a recovery partition of 450mb after C:
In my BIOS setting, CSM settings show boot options as: UEFI or legacy. Thank you. On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Rony Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > In your BIOS check the EFI Legacy option for the HDD too. How come your Win > 10 is installed in legacy mode? Did you upgrade from an old Win 7? Did you > have partitions after C: ? Generally nowadays they come with the recovery > partition after C: in order to make it difficult to install another OS. > > Regards, > Rony. > > On Dec 20, 2015 16:21, "Royce Pereira" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a Windows 10 PC with was installed in 'legacy' mode (not EFI). > > > > I shrunk my C: to create free space of 25Gb for Ubuntu. > > > > I created a 64 bit Ubuntu bootable USB pendrive. > > > > For booting from the pendrive, I select the boot mode at the BIOS splash > > screen I have tried both 'USB drive' and 'EFI-USB-drive'. > > > > I tried to install Ubuntu 15.1 but the free space is always marked > > 'unusable'. > > > > Before this I'd got a warning that the installation was started in EFI > > mode, but target installation is non-EFI, and if I force it I won't be > able > > to switch OSs. > > But this warning is not appearing subsequently, only my freed partiton is > > showing 'unusable'. > > > > Is there a way install Ubuntu into the created free space in such a > > situation? > > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Best Regards, -- Royce Pereira -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
