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TOUGHIE: Keyboard locks when trying to boot recovery mode

Asked by wonderfulkylie

When the main screen for Ubuntu starts up, asking for Username and Password, I don't know what to put, because I don't remember being asked to make one up when I was downloading the application to my computer. I have looked on many forums on how to fix this, but they all say the same : boot in recovery mode, or press ESC when the following screen comes up. I try both, but my keyboard seems to not work in just those few seconds, then as soon as the UN/PW login screen comes up, my keyboard works again. Its not a hardware issue, but I am currently running the software on Windows XP. WHAT DO I DO??! Is my whole computer locked up forever, unless I remember that password? There seems to be no help for my situation, I'm not sure if the problem has to do with microsoft, or ubuntu. Either way I would REALLY appreciate the help! Please!

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Marco van Bokhoven (marcovanbokhoven) said : 		#1

Ok,

When you install ubuntu it should always ask you about your name, login-id and the password you want to use.
If there was no screen asking for this then it's probably a problem with the installation medium.

My advice would be to re-install ubuntu (since the keyboard is not responding so no way to recover)

Did you install it from within windows? (this is done with the Wubi installer)

If yes, you can go to add/remove software in windows and remove ubuntu from there.
After which you can start the installation of ubuntu via Wubi again.

If no then you probably installed it from an installation CD.
You can do the same installation again but keep in mind that the first time installation of Ubuntu probably created two partitions for you.
1 large partition containing the complete operating system (ext3).
1 smaller partition containing the swap partition.

You can remove those two and let the installer choose the free space created to do the installation of Ubuntu again.

Make certain you have a backup of your data if you are unsure about partitioning.
In that case Wubi installation would be more convenient due to it not needing the partitioning part of the installation.

Marco

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