Re: screwed up installation (Win10) when trying to install Ubuntu20.04
Matthias Posseldt <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:00:51 +0200
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Hi, On 15 September 2020 12:02:00 CEST, Uwe Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: >I am desperate. I tried, for a friend, to install Ubuntu20.04 *along* >Windows10 on thinkpad X1 (8th generation). I have installed Ubuntu in >the past on X1, but erasing Windows 10. > >It was bit complicated because I had to fully activate and then >deactivate bitlocker. > >However during the installation when I tried to resize the ntfs file >system, something went wrong, and I am afraid the whole disk is now a >ext4 disk, I interrupted the installation bu my friend insists to have >Windows 10. > >So the question boils down, how can I reinstall windows 10 in such >circumstances, I googled but without success. Normally, ThinkPads have a recovery partition. If you boot the machine to any boot manager, do you see a partition of a couple of gigabytes size called LENOVO or similar? Try booting this, if possible. Regards Matthias -- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at: http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad