Saturday, February 20, 2016

Dual boot with windows 8.1 "write the changes to disks?" problem


I have a pop-up message while installing Ubuntu alongside Windows:


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Is it normal? If i continue is it format my entire hard disk? What should i do?



Yes this is perfectly Normal. I have installed Ubuntu many times with this message being shown up. It just writes the new partition(s) on the Hard Drive which you want to create.

And No, It will not format you entire Hard Disk, but only the new partition(s) you have created.

So it is perfectly safe to click continue and proceed ahead.


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