want to install ubuntu on my laptop beside my windows but the installation always has a fatal error with the grub-installer. using usb drive to install

Bug #1705892 reported by Joshua Pilarzyk
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grub-installer (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

windows 10 is installed as main system
gave ubuntu 100 GB of my 500 GB hard drive
used usb falsh drive

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.63.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376.2
Date: Sun Jul 23 12:18:16 2017
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz.efi file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper only-ubiquity quiet splash ---
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub-installer
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Joshua Pilarzyk (heartofdawn) wrote :
description: updated
summary: want to install ubuntu on my laptop beside my windows but the
- installation always has a fatal error. using usb drive to install
+ installation always has a fatal error with the grub/installer. using usb
+ drive to install
summary: want to install ubuntu on my laptop beside my windows but the
- installation always has a fatal error with the grub/installer. using usb
+ installation always has a fatal error with the grub-installer. using usb
drive to install
Revision history for this message
Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

Your EFI system partition is corrupt; you will need to repair it with either dosfsck or Windows' chkdsk/scandisk.

Changed in grub-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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