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I am trying to boot Ubuntu 24.04.03 into my laptop. It has a 120GB SSD and 1.0TB HDD. I have read through a few tutorials and here is what I have tried:

  1. Creating two partitions mounted / and /home. In this picture, sdc1 and sdc2 couldn't be seen. They are NTFS 523MB and VFAT 104.86MB respectively. Sorry for the bad crop only images less than 2MB is allowed The Next button and the choose device buttons are grayed out. I don't know how to proceed
  2. Creating a partition in SSD mounted / and another in HDD mounted /home / in SSD /home in HDD The boot loader menu is quite obstructive but I want to show that I can't choose next or whatever drive it is. I would love to receive some advice, this has been driving me crazy.

After advice by comments, here are the results when I run lsblk -e 7 -f:

lsblk -e 7 -f NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS sda
├─sda1 │ vfat FAT32 226C-93E4
└─sda2 ntfs WIN 10 B21470CD14709657
sdb iso966 Jolie Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS amd64 2025-08-05-18-20-26-00
├─sdb1 │ iso966 Jolie Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS amd64 2025-08-05-18-20-26-00 0 100% /cdrom ├─sdb2 │ vfat FAT12 ESP 73B7-988D
├─sdb3 │
└─sdb4 ext4 1.0 writable 85484197-b53e-4a88-a4a3-bbb96442fd5f 21.2G 0% /var/crash /var/log sdc
├─sdc1 │ ntfs Recovery 2E4CD7B44CD77555
├─sdc2 │ vfat FAT32 18D9-7826
├─sdc3 │
├─sdc4 │ ntfs WIN 10 DAD0C6E8D0C6CA49
├─sdc5 │ ntfs 728E22B78E2273AF
├─sdc6 │ ntfs DATA1 E8C41B69C41B3970
└─sdc7 ntfs DATA2 9EE8122EE81204E5

Result when I run sudo parted -l; df -h:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l; df -h
Model: ATA GeIL R3_128GB (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 128GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size   File system  Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB  105MB  fat32              msftdata, no_automount
 2      106MB   102GB  102GB  ntfs               msftdata


Model: KIOXIA TransMemory (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 31.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name       Flags
 1      32.8kB  6340MB  6340MB               ISO9660    hidden, msftdata
 2      6340MB  6346MB  5202kB               Appended2  boot, esp
 3      6346MB  6346MB  307kB                Gap1       hidden, msftdata
 4      6346MB  31.0GB  24.6GB  ext4


Model: ATA ST1000LM035-1RK1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End    Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  524MB  523MB   ntfs         Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      524MB   629MB  105MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 3      629MB   646MB  16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 4      646MB   160GB  160GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 5      160GB   161GB  920MB   ntfs                                       hidden, diag
 6      161GB   581GB  419GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 7      581GB   927GB  346GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata


Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                        1.6G   11M  1.6G   1% /run
/dev/sdb1                    6.0G  6.0G     0 100% /cdrom
/cow                         7.7G  235M  7.5G   3% /
/dev/disk/by-label/writable   23G   17M   22G   1% /var/log
tmpfs                        7.7G  8.0K  7.7G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                        5.0M  8.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs                        7.7G   27M  7.7G   1% /tmp
tmpfs                        1.6G  180K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000
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    Some installers will create the ESP - efi system partition depending on install choices. Many default to ESP on first drive, whatever first drive is per UEFI/BIOS. If manual install, you probably need to have a FAT32 partition flagged as boot,esp. I always prefer an ESP on same drive as install. Only one ESP per drive is allowed. Better to just run ` lsblk -e 7 -f ` and post that in question to see partitions. Also make sure Windows fast startup & bitlocker are off. Windows often turns fast startup back on with updates. Commented Oct 26 at 19:28
  • Can you edit to include results from terminal for sudo parted -l; df -h Commented Oct 26 at 19:56
  • I added the results from my terminal to the original post. Can you help me see what is wrong Commented Oct 27 at 5:31

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