Help Please

[elmo]

Email wrote:
> I desperately want to get away from Microsoft but cannot make head nor tail of Ubuntu.
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> I have downloaded Ubuntu 4 times and burned it to CD but it will not load. The ISO Ubuntu file seems OK.
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> 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. 
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> What could the problem be?
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> 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.
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> In any case I doubt of the file is corrupted I have downloaded it numbers of time with always the same result.
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> Many thanks for any help you can give and best wishes from Stan
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Are aware that you just don't COPY  a ISO to a Disk in the usual copy 
fashion?
You have to use a burner that simultaneously extracts and copies,

Most CD burners have a feature that burns the ISO files to CD or DVD.  
Look around in your CD burner.

elmo