<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, At a guess I would say you might have a faulty hard drive or something odd going on with the partitions or formatting of that drive. I would download and burn the live gparted cd and see if you can successfully partition / format the drive to ext4. At least you will see if gparted manages this with or without any issues. As a side note, 10.04 failed for me when I tried to install on 2x 500GB drives in a RAID 1 software based array - I'm becoming increasingly bothered by Ubuntu's failure in critical OS features whilst adding bling such as social networking and other irrelevant stuff. If you have no joy with 10.04, try Debian as I have found this distro to work when Ubuntu throws up these errors. Although Ubuntu is based on Debian it appears that a bit of Ubuntu tinkering has broken some aspects of partitioning during install. Regards Gary On 07/07/10 16:36, Reinhold Pam Muller wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:624246.53650.qm@web96102.mail.aue.yahoo.com" type="cite"> <style type="text/css"></style> <div style="font-family: bookman old style,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">hi folks I have downloaded a iso file (checked it) and burned it (and checked that) of an amd 64bit Ubuntu10.04 version On installing it "hangs" between accepting the keyboard and starting the gparted.. It files a crash report and asks for it to be sent off - and when u do - it totally crashes - needing a reboot Urm Is there anyone out there in good o'l NZ that has a successful 64 bit version of 10.04 (install cd) and if so - i'd be mighty glad if you clone a cd and post it to 23 Oldwood st. CHCH Cheers Reinhold </div> </blockquote> </body> </html>