And Hallow to all of you 
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My main computer didnāt want to work with me any more so it set it self on fire.
He-He, well what can I sayā¦
I did it.
I over Clocked it.
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Any-Waysā¦
I finely got hold of enough money and bought my self a laptop.
This laptop had (of course) Win10 installed and I am now on my third day trying to āWip&Deleteā andā¦
I just want to get rid of this Windows 10 ā ā ā ā .
Have you tried starting the laptop with a UM live iso on a USB stick or CD?
Having once got to the desktop, open up Gparted. You should find it in the system menu. This will allow you to see a GUI representation of your main hard drive on the laptop. From there, you can delete everything and wipe it clean.
Then reboot and UM live ISO should be able to see and install to the laptop hard drive
This is what Gparted looks like:
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Thanks for being her Steve 
Its been some years but its really nice to see you again mannn.
And YES I have tried to start it all with both the USB and CD wearing UM.
But NO LUCKā¦
Before you know it the Win10 boot takes overā¦
I have even gotten in to the Bios for trying to manipulate the Win10 with out success.
What I cant understand is that WIN10 has already manipulated the Bios to prevent me doing changesā¦ā¦
I am really lost hear actuallyā¦
Hi thereā¦
Is there a way of interrupting the BIOS at boot-up with, say, the ESC key or F2 key. This is usually possible and it then takes you to a BIOS screen where you can dictate which medium it tries to boot to and you choose the USB/CD with the UM live ISO on
This is were I am actually lostā¦
When I am in the Bios and I go for the ābootā medium.
Win10 has actually changed the normal Bios screen, because were you used to see different chases concerning ātheBootā it only has 1 boot option and that is
āOption 1 - Windows Boot Managerā.
I am aloud to make a new Boot Option and even (lucky me) deleting an option, witch I couldnāt manage because thereās some keyboard issues evolved and I donāt have the knowledge to even write about them.
That is as far as I know the usual method to install any Linux distribution on your PC/Laptop.
First, select in the BIOS UM as your boot device. Then you can switch in the installation manager between erasing Windows or installing UM alongside Windows.
Mickey
Hallowā¦
Mickey my manā¦
This isnāt being helpful is itā¦
And then again I am SORRY, its just that I am in the middle of itā¦
It actually seems to be impossible to make changes in the Bios of this win10 controlled laptop.
And I do need some more from Steve, please mannn???
@SpacePunk You canāt even get to live usb of Ubuntu MATE?
Think that might be similar to when I tried to install UM on my friend Lenovo Ideapad that came with Win 10ā¦ Think I could only disable Secure Boot in bios, after that I had to run Windows and then in the configuration settings, was Recovery > Under Advance Startup click restart now and then you get āUse a deviceā where you could select usb option of UM (trough if I remember correctly it was written something else, but it went to live UM usb) or if you need to change UEFI Firmware setting go to Troubleshooting > Advance options and Restart to change settings. Hope that helps.
Maybe it would be helpful to post a picture of your BIOS screen.
I have never seen any PC/Laptop where the boot device cannot be selected. What Laptop have you bought?
The issue is not how to remove Windows. The issue is how to boot from another boot device using the BIOS.
Mickey
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@SpacePunk
You may find that you have to disable all that fancy UEFI crap and put it into āLegacy Modeā to get it to work (had to do that with my wifeās Lenovo - and it was a convoluted nightmare). Also, if itās one of those āMicrosoft Signature Editionā laptops, you may be out of luck. I seem to remember reading somewhere that the bios had been modified so that you couldnāt install a non-MS OS on it.
If that was the case, perhaps re-flashing the bios?
Ok, lets start at the beginning.
full make and model of the laptop please
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I had a similar problem as I had an OEM version of Windows 8. I then found a very useful article on the ASUS website how to do this. https://www.asus.com/support/FAQ/1008277/#
I could imagine that your manufacturer has a similar instruction. I had to add a new boot partition and created one with my DVD drive. Even I hadnāt typed the exact name but the ASUS BIOS recognised what I intended and after holding F2, the option to start from DVD appeared and my DVD drive was recognised. Then I disabled UEFi as described in the second part of the article. The rest was easily done once I got it running from DVD.
Hallo Every-One and especially to @stevecook172001, @ele, @grenouille, @Mickey and @Newhere.
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ENORMOUS GRATITUDE & THANK`s to all of you for your involvement. You all got me on to the path of solving it .
SO now I am finally back her again and SORRY for not replying earlier.
This really took its time and I actually finished it 2 days ago. It wasnāt a 24/7 thing, but intensive and confusing enough to make me stay away from the āLaptopā for a week.
- PHuuu, I couldnāt even look at it
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ā¦The laptop is an āAsus ROG GL552VXā, by the way and so I went to āThe ROG- Forumā and I found the answer. This place was packed with Linux user and my problem was a common one.
Hears a BLOGG about it;
And a perfect explanation from Ubuntu Forum it self;
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2349782
Regards
SpacePunk
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Brilliant. Glad to hear you got it sorted SpacePunk.
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