new install

[Colin Law]

On 27 February 2010 14:05, Lloyd Miller <lloydleroimiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried actually, probably a dozen times, same thing, and on different
> hard drives, figure it must be my iso-burned thing but It's all i got for
> now, thank you anyway

Did you try doing the CD check from the list available when booting from the CD?

Colin

>                                                                   Lloyd
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>>
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