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I've been trying all night to get Ubuntu mate running on my PC but have kept running into problems with the installation. I've made a boot disk, and plan on using it to get into a live "try ubuntu without installing" session and then from there install it onto a 64 gb flash drive. After many, many error codes and scouring forum after forum I finally got ubuntu live to boot, but I had to switch my boot option from "Uefi+Legacy" to "uefi only" for it to work. After that my main windows drive wouldn't show up in the boot drive selection page of my bios, even if I switched back to legacy+uefi. I finally got all of that sorted out and my windows drive booting again but get the same errors when trying to boot ubuntu. Am I going to be forced to reinstall windows in the uefi only mode or is there a workaround that will allow me to boot into Ubuntu without changing my uefi settings? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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Did you Disable Fast Startup in windows? Here is a good tutorial on installing a dual boot with Ubantu and windows.
https://www.tecmint.com/install-ubuntu-16-04-alongside-with-windows-10-or-8-in-dual-boot/
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That is actually one of the pieces of software I used, and I followed that guide but got an initramfs error "unable to find a medium containing a live file system". or atleast I'm pretty sure that's the error that it threw when I followed that guide. I've pretty much exhausted all the ubuntu install guides and image burning software. So far I've used Etcher, Universal-USB installer, win32 diskimager, and linuxLive USB Creator. I've also verified my ISO file is good and spent a good time messing around in virtual box using it and everything seemed fine. Right now I'm trying different partitioning schemes in Rufus and making the boot drive as a "DD image" instead of an ISO since it says that might fix boot problems. I'm assuming it has something to do with uefi support and the mbr / gpt partitioning thing since I did have it running in uefi only mode.

 
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I'll give that a shot, I also checked my flash drive for bad sectors in rufus (Probably should have done that right off) and it ended up saying there were 256 of them, that being said I don't know if that's the problem considering I've used three separate thumb drives trying to get this working. Trying another one right now and it has no bad sectors.

Update - Made a boot disk with the good flash drive and turned off windows fast boot, still getting multiple errors depending on how I go about the boot process, I will link pictures I took.

 
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Thank you for all your help guys, I figured out that most of my problems were being caused by my msi motherboard being really picky about what usb ports I could use. I also had to switch my corsair k70 into "bios" mode (totally forgot it had that) and also unplug my logitech g502. After that the installation went pretty smooth and now I have ubuntu installed onto a 64gb flash drive. I'm thinking disabling fast boot also might have had something to do with all of this.
 
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