Ubuntu

Formatting problem

Asked by mupparapu

Please help me...

I Bought Sony Vaio VPCEB1J8E/WI laptop with windows 7 Home premium (Italian OS). I am a beginner to Linux, but I wanted to have Ubuntu 10.04 on my laptop. I made a big mistake of not keeping recovery disk for windows 7.

I tried to install using USB installer option with universal USB installer software. During the installation, I got the error "faulty CD/DVD drive". Since I was installing with USB, I did not understand how that happened. And the installation could not completed, but it corrupted the windows 7. Even though I kept separate partition for Linux, it corrupted the windows 7. With a foolish thought I continued to install Ubuntu from the beginning again. I used option " erase hard drive completely and install". It erased the hard drive but could not install Ubuntu, giving the same faulty CD/DVD drive error. I thought this might be due to faulty ISO image on the USB installer. Later I tried to install Ubuntu 7.with a authentic CD, but it showed start up screen, after that it showed blank screen. Even i tried with Linux mint, the start up message appears, but once I press Install Linux mint , blank screen appears, it remains blank.

Is it possible to recover windows 7 with any recovery software,? This just helps me to have warranty for my computer in any case.

I don't have any idea what happened with my laptop. Please help me....what can I do now ?

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Federico Tello Gentile (federicotg) said : 		#1

I think the original Windows installation is gone. You should have the original Windows 7 DVD, if you paid for it.
Or just get a Ubuntu CD and check it before installing.

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pioruns (pioruns) said : 		#2

Your hardware might be incompatible with Ubuntu. Try do disable CD support in laptop BIOS, and start again from USB stick.

You should try Ubuntu Live CD for testing first. For this it was developed.

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