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I'm using a USB drive to install Ubuntu; but the installation/trial options doesn't appear, even if I change my BIOS settings

Asked by Carly K.

I'm trying to install Ubuntu, because I had a couple viruses on my Windows. I got rid of them, but there was one more that my anti-virus couldn't quarantine, and every time I tried a different one, my laptop would randomly shut down with a blue screen, saying that Windows shut down to protect files/info. So I used a USB drive, and did everything up to step 3 from the instructions located on the website. I have the .ios file on my USB drive, but when I reboot my laptop (I have to use safe mode to prevent my laptop from shutting down)and plug my USB in, the installation/trial options doesn't appear. I tried to go to my boot menu, and change the BIOS boot order. So when i rebooted my laptop, instead of the normal process, on my screen would be "Ubuntu" in big words, and a couple options below in a boot menu format. Everytime I pressed enter to install it, it says "Automatic reboot in 5 seconds" and it counts down, and then a beep noise is heard, and it keeps doing that whenever I tryed any option. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

I'm using an HP laptop bought in 2009-2010. It was originally a Vista, but I got it to Windows 7 Ultimate, and now I want it to be Linux.

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

how did you put the .iso file onto your usb drive? did you just save it to there? did you copy it to there? or did you "burn" it to the drive with software such as nero?

did you do an md5sum check on the iso file you downloaded to see if there were errors while downloading?

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/CDIntegrityCheck (works also with USB key)

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Willing2Learn (curious-g74) said : 		#3

I just went through similar thing.

My USB would boot into Ubuntu and I'd attempt to select one of the options, and from there, my system would just kind of spaz out.

I wound up using KillDIsk, which you can find here: http://www.killdisk.com/ It's a freeware program which will do one pass over your entire hard drive and overwrite everything with 0s. The download also includes a boot disk creator so you can boot into the KillDisk program from a USB stick (you still have to change your boot order in BIOS). My reasoning was that it would wipe out any messed up libraries that were still on the disk. It also showed me that I had a bad sector on the disk, so when I did finally install Ubuntu, I partitioned the disk and installed it from the end so I sequestered the bad sector - I think :) . I did a dual boot and put Windows at the start of the disk because from prior experimentation I knew that I would need to do some extra work to get the drivers working for my wifi card. The dual boot allowed me still boot into Windows to be able to get online and download the files and instructions I needed to make it all work.

After wiping everything out and reformatting, I reloaded WIndows, and downloaded Ubuntu again so I was sure I had a good copy (my downloads were all getting corrupted prior to the wipeout).

I used UNetbootin http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ to create the bootable Ubuntu USB.

Of course, my doing all of this was dependent upon my having the ability to reload Windows.

Happily I am now enjoying a smooth-functioning, Ubuntu-powered machine. I hope maybe some of this helps you on your journey as well. Good luck!

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