My Computer only recognizes my flash drive as a USB FDD?

Asked by Christian Spiro

I cant install Ubuntu 11.04 because its not supported and why is it reading like this? Any way to change it? I have USB FDD, USB CD ROM AND USB HDD in boot options and I cant use a cd because im on a netbook

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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To boot from a USB flash drive, choose USB HDD.

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Christian Spiro (nuclearskittles) said :
#2

I tryed. I select Boot from USB HDD first with the drive in the port but then it boots into windows so I tryed the rest and only USB FDD worked but All it did was show SYSLINUX 4.03 etc

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Did you MD5 test the .iso image before you wrote it to the USB flash drive? (See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM.) If not, please do that now; if it doesn't check out, you'll have to re-download the .iso image, MD5 test it again, and assuming it's good, re-write it to the USB flash drive.

If that doesn't fix your problem, please answer the following three questions:

(1) How exactly did you write the .iso image to the USB flash drive?

(2) What is the exact make and model of the netbook on which this problem is occurring?

(3) Do you have another computer available? (This would be for testing to ensure that the USB flash drive is working properly, using a very specific method that I will detail, if you have another computer on which to perform it.)

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delance (olivier-delance) said :
#4

What is your netbook ? Eee PC ?

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Christian Spiro (nuclearskittles) said :
#5

Acer Aspire One AOD 250

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Christian Spiro (nuclearskittles) said :
#6

Did not MD5 test it, The netbook is a acer aspire one aod 250 and I wrote it
with unetbootin

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Eliah Kagan <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #160083 on ubiquity in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+question/160083
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Eliah Kagan proposed the following answer:
> Did you MD5 test the .iso image before you wrote it to the USB flash
> drive? (See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM.) If not,
> please do that now; if it doesn't check out, you'll have to re-download
> the .iso image, MD5 test it again, and assuming it's good, re-write it
> to the USB flash drive.
>
> If that doesn't fix your problem, please answer the following three
> questions:
>
> (1) How exactly did you write the .iso image to the USB flash drive?
>
> (2) What is the exact make and model of the netbook on which this
> problem is occurring?
>
> (3) Do you have another computer available? (This would be for testing
> to ensure that the USB flash drive is working properly, using a very
> specific method that I will detail, if you have another computer on
> which to perform it.)
>
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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
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Since you haven't MD5 tested the .iso image, please do that now; if it doesn't check out, you'll have to re-download the .iso image, MD5 test it again, and assuming it's good, re-write it to the USB flash drive.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#8

(If the test does check out as good, please post to indicate that, and we'll continue working on this problem. Also, the .iso file you test must be the file you used to create the USB flash drive. If you have since deleted that file, you'll have to download it again, MD5 test it, and then, assuming the test checks out OK, you'll have to write the newly downloaded and tested file to the USB flash drive and try booting from that, as that's the only way to know that the USB flash drive was created from a good image.)

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said :
#14

You can try connecting an external CD drive, and booting from there.

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Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#15

Most users probably don't have, or know anyone who has, an external optical drive. Also, it seems rather unlikely that an external optical drive would work if a USB stick (which is much more standard) wouldn't.

In any case, the original poster's account has been disabled after being hijacked and used to post spam, so until that gets cleared up or he creates a new account, there's not much more we can do on this question.

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