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What does "the following disks have mounted partitions" mean while installing Ubuntu?

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I am attempting to install Ubuntu on my machine since windows is messed up. I get this message and I am unsure how to proceed. I need some advice. Message: In layman terms what does that mean? I do not want to mess up anything on the hard drive or the system by installing Ubuntu. What should I do?

Error Output

The installer has detected that the following disks have mounted partitions:

/dev/sda/

Do you want the installer to try and unmount the partitions …

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"Mounting" means to make the disk or partition or data source accessible to the system. When you put a CD in the drive the operating system will mount that as a read-only data source with a drive letter assigned (in Windows, *nix OSes don't really u…

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