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I have a Ubuntu and Windows on my machine and I have to reinstall Ubuntu without losing any of my data, /home folder, but reinstall ubuntu option is grayed out for some reason.

What should I do in order to reinstall it without losing files and programs?

razorx
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You can click on "Something Else" and then manually reinstall it. Choose the same paritions for the same mounts you had before such as /home and root (/) and just make sure the format checkbox is NOT checked. It will reinstall overtop of everything (overwrite) but won't delete anything. Of course as always, you should backup your /home folder before, just in case

Delorean
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    how to know which is the boot partition when having for example `/dev/nvme0n1` (seems the whole disk), `/dev/nvme0n1p1`(fat32) and `/dev/nvme0p2` (ext2)? It is asking foe the `Device for boot loader installation` – Francesco Boi Aug 02 '19 at 16:45
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    The boot partition can't be fat32 so it is the other one. – Pierre ALBARÈDE Nov 07 '20 at 23:28