Installing Ubuntu on an HP EliteBook 8560w

I recently acquired my HP EliteBook 8560w. I decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on it. Installation was not straightforward, but still quite easy. I wrote down my installation steps, maybe it’s useful for someone one day. In my particular case, I wanted a dual boot with Windows 7. The first 2 steps can be disregarded if you’re only installing Ubuntu.

Install Windows 7
Make a new partition for Ubuntu. I went with a 100GB NTFS partition for Windows and left all the rest unallocated. For partitioning I used EaseUS. It was the first application I came across and it was free.
Download Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and install it on a USB stick/CD Rom using the Universal USB Installer.
Boot from the USB stick.
Select "Run from USB stick" (or something similar) in the menu and press "TAB". At the freshly opened command line add: nouveau.modeset=0 and start Ubuntu.
After Ubuntu has started select "Install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS".
Choose "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7".
Reboot from hard drive. Grub will greet you.

After that go to “System Settings” > “Additional Drivers” and select the most recent Nvidia drivers. The Nvidia driver version I currently have is 295.49.

That did it for me. Since the HP EliteBook 8560w comes in different hardware configurations, I’ll add mine:

Intel® Core™ i7-2820QM CPU @ 2.30GHz × 8
7.8 GiB memory
Nvidia Quadro 2000M with 2GB of memory