I have tried a few times on here to try and get this problem sorted without success or even much interested help. I have explained the situation in person to Alan Pope, Dave Walker and none other than Mark Shuttlleworth himself (who I must admit, did try to find some pointers as to why this was/is happening). I have again posted a bug report about this problem along with as much information as I have to hand here : 162104 <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/162104">Sata hdd works on feisty live dvd but not if installed to hard drive</a> Can someone of you who have connections to the techs at Cannonical or one of more of you who have knowledge of how ubuntu is set, have a look and tell me if this can be fixed or not. I believe it can be with a little more knowledge of the ubuntu system, than I have at present having only just installed feisty in mid-August this year. Please can someone seriously have a look and try and work out why the feisty live dvd works with my hardware but installed to my hdd, neither feisty or gutsy for that matter, will boot past the ubuntu splash screen. many thanks N3m3sis (aka Rohan O'mard) Hackney Ubuntuite <hr size=1> Yahoo! Answers - Get better answers from someone who knows. <a href="http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTEydmViNG02BF9TAzIxMTQ3MTcxOTAEc2VjA21haWwEc2xrA3RhZ2xpbmU">Try it now</a>.