I am also unable to install Windows off of a USB drive or make any restore media. Now, it still boots to Windows 10, so that isn't hosed, but I can't figure out how to get GRUB to work.ĭid they design this laptop to deliberately prohibit a non Windows OS? It does not crash the install, but simply brings up a window that says that GRUB could not successfully install and that it will not boot up to the OS. I attempted to install Mint (18.1 KDE) 5 times and the first 2 times I had to figure out BIOS, but still, for 3 times now, it fails when installing GRUB. I then installed Windows 10 Fresh and it went fine and I left 300GB unpartitioned/unwritten for Mint. So have a bit of trial and error, I was able to use UBCD and wiped the drive. First I wiped the drive using UBCD and it wasn't a simple thing to do, took figuring out the few but cryptic UEFI/BIOS settings and the bootup command (F12) which I had to figure out could only be imputed very early upon power up. So the one remaining personal system that does not have Mint on it is my Lenovo G580 laptop with an Ivy Bridge i5, 8 GB RAM, and I put a 1 TB hard drive on it. I have put Linux Mint 18.1 KDE on both of my desktops and one of them has dual boot with Windows, which I'm almost not using at all now, but have to keep around, I am so liking Linux now, and thanks to your help here, I'm starting to learn, but I'm very much a newbie.
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