Disclaimer: Im not much of a techie, and this is my first attempt at installing ubuntu.
That said, im trying to revive an old asus u500v (which has 2x120 gb SSD's in raid0) by installing ubuntu on it, however the install freezes shortly after the final step of the ubuntu 22.04 desktop installer.
My steps:
When i ran the installer the first time, i found a hidden partition of 17gb (called RAID0RST (stripe)). Never having known of its existence and ignorant as i was, i figured that would be a great place to install ubuntu and went ahead with the installation. The installation went great, but when i rebooted the laptop it kept booting into the preexisting windows 10 OS.
I know now that the 17gb partition was an asus system restore partition.
I then went ahead and tried to install ubuntu on the 222 gb partition (named RAID0SYS (stripe)), but the installation ran to ~25% and then froze. I tried multiple times, same thing happened.
[Edit] Running the installer again it froze during the process of: "Creating ext4 file system for / in partition #2 of serial ATA raid isw_cecegdebb_RAIDSYS (stripe)".
I then rebooted and tried again, and an error message pop'ed up during the install-setup:
"The attempt to mount a file-system with type vfat in serial ATA raid isw_cecegdebb_RAID0RST1 (partition #1) at /boot/efi failed"
Disc arrangements:
17 gb partition
222 gb partition
Do you have any ideas as to why i cant install it on the 222gb partition, and maybe some steps i could try?
Alternatively, as ive already ruined the restore partition, do you think its possible to remove this partition and thus be able to install ubuntu on the full 240 gb?
[Edit:] Attempting to remove the partitions using GParted as described by @HomerSimpson, i ran into uncharted territory:
Gparted
Looking at the attached image, how do i remove the hidden partition?
Please let me know if you need further information.
[OP edited to include some messages and image of gparted partitions]