Kari,

Thanks. I reinstalled it as you indicated - had to play with memory size allocations to get it started. Ubuntu is now running in my virtual machine. I'm a happy :D guy - probably gonna be a...

I recently purchased a Dell XPS 15, 9550, 6700HQ, W10P, 16Gig, non-touch, refurb computer. I re-partitioned the SSD drive, creating among other things drive 'R' of about 97 Gig. R was not reformatted...