Problem loading Ubuntu into used laptop

richlevy · 03-31-2007, 03:45 PM

This is my first post from my Linux system.

It turns out it was the hard drive. I was able to finally cut a flawless Ubuntu CD and the company I bought my laptop from sent me a 40GB IBM/Hitachi drive to replace the 48GB noname brand with bad sectors. I confirmed that the disk was bad by partitioning it again as a FAT32 and attempting to format it with MS-DOS. The format hit bad sectors and crashed.

Getting the ISO burning to work was a combination of very low speed (4x), switching to brand name disks, using retail software, and luck since even then I had multiple attempts.

So I am free from Microsoft, at the price of at least 20 CD's sent to the shred bin and hours of pointless aggravation that I was too stubborn to blame on bad hardware. Next step - the wireless card

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The high cost of freedom.

03-31-2007, 03:45 PM	#16
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Success! This is my first post from my Linux system. It turns out it was the hard drive. I was able to finally cut a flawless Ubuntu CD and the company I bought my laptop from sent me a 40GB IBM/Hitachi drive to replace the 48GB noname brand with bad sectors. I confirmed that the disk was bad by partitioning it again as a FAT32 and attempting to format it with MS-DOS. The format hit bad sectors and crashed. Getting the ISO burning to work was a combination of very low speed (4x), switching to brand name disks, using retail software, and luck since even then I had multiple attempts. So I am free from Microsoft, at the price of at least 20 CD's sent to the shred bin and hours of pointless aggravation that I was too stubborn to blame on bad hardware. Next step - the wireless card. The high cost of freedom. Attached Images __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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