Failed Installation with Error Code 141

[Don B. Cilly]

You can get a decent SSD for it for some $30. I mean, 240G should be plenty, right?
It would be interesting if it managed to boot into Windows with a brand new virgin disk...

[KIMWWW]

My guess is Intel RST is enabled on the HP machine, as it is on most new Dell an Lenovo (as well as others) machines. I haven't had my hands on a new Acer yet, but possible that they are not enabling RST to save the Intel licensing cost (just a guess).

If you're wiping the drive clean (no windows), disable RST in your BIOS, then re-run the installer. This should allow you unfettered access to the drive.

Thank you for that advice oshunluvr. I had the same error message on my Dell laptop and when I disabled RAID and instead used AHCI it worked. No more error message.

On a side-note it is possible to disable RST on a drive and keep Windows, but it's not trivial. I did that on my new Lenovo laptop to keep Windows on it for warranty service purposes.

I'm facing the same situation as you but for a different reason than you. Here https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ial-files-only if you can help.