I am trying to install Ubuntu 17.04 from a USB stick created with UNETBOOTIN. I am installing to a Dell xps 8090. I just put a brand new 4TB drive in that I want to use for the install.

For some reason, during the install process, I see a warning that I am out of disk space. This was after I selected to do an erase and install to let the installer handle setting up the partitions. After the message indicating there was no more space on the drive displayed, a message would pop up saying the installer had crashed.

I am new to Ubuntu/Linux but I do have some experience with systems. I have tried various partitioning schemes based on what I have read online. Each time I get the ‘out of space’ message and it doesn’t make any sense that I have a brand new 4TB drive and cannot get Ubuntu installed. I would appreciate any suggestions.

I have only the one 4 TB drive installed. No other systems are running on it. I do not intend to use dual-boot. sudo fdisk -l shows:

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *          0 3100799 3100800  1.5G  0 Empty
/dev/sdb2       3006684 3011355    4672  2.3M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

It does look like I am trying to install to the USB for some reason – because the new drive isn’t seen in fdisk? I will look at the link Sirajus included.

Sorry I noticed that I did not include all the fdisk -l output. Here it is:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/loop0: 1.4 GiB, 1532116992 bytes, 2992416 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes


Disk /dev/sda: 3.7 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes, 7814037168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 7C3D520C-5FD9-4F74-8F34-725AB0D1ABDC

Device          Start        End    Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048       4095       2048    1M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2        4096 7780610047 7780605952  3.6T Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  7780610048 7814035455   33425408   16G Linux swap




Disk /dev/sdb: 3.8 GiB, 4009754624 bytes, 7831552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x0d66cd15

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1  *          0 3100799 3100800  1.5G  0 Empty
/dev/sdb2       3006684 3011355    4672  2.3M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

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The answer was from oldfred: In the BIOS setting the SATA drive to AHCI and then re-partitioning the hard drive resolved the issue. Thanks to all who responded.