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Installing Ubuntu after formatting a laptop (Win8 pre-installed) with Uefi/Legacy boot

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Here is what I got:

A pre-installed Windows 8 64 bit pro laptop, with an SSD card (Samsung PM83) and a SATA HDD. It is a Vostro 3560 from Dell.

First thing I did was create a recovery disk for Windows 8 and get an image so I can burn a clean install disk for Windows 8. Afterwards, I tried to install Ubuntu.

After setting BIOS to legacy mode, setting secure boot to off, I went on with th Ubuntu LiveCD. I tried to get a partition on the SSD card for / and for swap, but it had some issues with putting swap on that disk.So I tried the default installation on the SSD card. It starts nice, it says it is Copying files, but almost halfway through it shows the installer crashed due to a ErrNo5, I/O error.

Every single setting I change (using different file system or UEFI boot mode) results in the same error.

Has any had this before as well? Were you able to fix it?

Kind regards.

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answered 2 Years ago odyroc · Accepted Answer

How did you create the partitions?
When I tried to create partitions in my Samsung 840 Pro SSD using Windows I also had problems, so I booted the LiveCD and used GParted instead which worked great.

As far as installing Ubuntu on SSD goes, I have a clean Ubuntu 12.10 installation on the SSD disk I previously mentioned, but there is one catch: I have no swap partition.
Why no swap partition (you may ask), is this man insane? Well, I figured that with 8GB of RAM in my machine, I don't need swap. I never reached the 8GB limit, and I don't think I will in the nearby future.

If your computer also has a lot of RAM, you may want to consider this solution. If not, you could try and create the swap partition in your HDD instead of creating it in the SSD.

Wish I could be more helpful, this is all I got :s

EDIT: Looks like some Samsung devices are bugged!. I don't know but this may be your case.