Help Please

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1]        I desperately want to get away from Microsoft but 
cannot make head nor tail of Ubuntu.
 
I have downloaded Ubuntu 4 times and burned it to 
CD but it will not load. The ISO Ubuntu file seems OK.
 
I have a blank formatted HDD and put the Ubuntu CD 
into the CD drive, set the Bios to boot from CD, but it does not load. 

 
What could the problem be?
 
I have been to the page that offers to check the 
integrity of the ISO file but it is so technical with command strings etc which 
is meaningless to me and describing numbers of different options.
 
In any case I doubt of the file is corrupted I have 
downloaded it numbers of time with always the same result.
 
2]    Why when I wanted to send this message from the Ubuntu site deos it come up with a message saying the it will only be sent when I Send/Receive messages (from windows explorer?) I have had to copy and paste this from Explorer to my hotmail mail site.


Many thanks for any help you can give and best 
wishes from Stan
 
 
 
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