Newbie in Ubuntu

Do not be afraid of the terminal. Often easy to just copy & paste a command, just be sure source of command is reliable.

If you do not have live installer flash drive.

And install:

Updated to 24.04

Bitlocker in Windows, turn off so installer can correctly see drive

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/desktop/en/latest/tutorial/install-ubuntu-desktop/

My lsblk as an example, that we need to see from your system


> fred@dell5310:~$ lsblk -e 7 -o MODEL,NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,MOUNTPOINT,SIZE,fsused
> MODEL                   NAME         FSTYPE LABEL       MOUNTPOIN   SIZE FSUSED
> PC SN530 NVMe WDC 512GB nvme0n1                                   476.9G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p1  vfat   ESP         /boot/efi   200M 127.3M
>                         ├─nvme0n1p2                                 128M 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p3  ntfs   OS                    202.4G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p4  vfat   FAT32                     6G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p5  ntfs   Shared                 63.9G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p6  ext4   noble-dell  /          39.1G  17.5G
>                         ├─nvme0n1p7  ext4   data-dell   /mnt/data 142.6G  87.5G
>                         ├─nvme0n1p8  swap                           4.1G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p9  ntfs   WINRETOOLS              1.4G 
>                         ├─nvme0n1p10 ntfs   Image                  15.7G 
>                         └─nvme0n1p11 ntfs   DELLSUPPORT             1.4G

One site on Windows fast startup off. There also may be an UEFI/BIOS setting for fast boot which also should be off as that assumes no system changes and always default boots previous configuration.

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-10-a.html