new install

[Christopher Chan]

On Saturday, February 27, 2010 12:17 PM, Lloyd Miller wrote:
> Ok, i looked at the cd, i tried the os (ubuntu 9.10) and I decided to
> put it on the harddrive and completely do awqay with windows.  I started
> to follow the prompts to do just that.  The thing got to the place right
> after the format, (it formatted, hard drive now says no os installed,
> now it wont install, come up with error# 5 right after it formats, that
> leaves me with nada
> any thoughts?
>

Grub reporting error 5 stands for partition table is corrupt.

Reinstall?