help needed

[Haseeb ul Hasan]

Hi,

I was using F12 and then choosing boot device on each restart.

Somehow the normal install usb was not working, i just did a successful
install from an alternative installer.

This one is resolved then.

Regards,

On Sat, 12 Sep 2015 at 16:57 Andrew Constantine <
andrewconstantine at outlook.com> wrote:

> Check to ensure your boot order is still set correctly and you should be
> able to boot to a live CD/DVD and then do a total fresh install.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:40 AM Haseeb ul Hasan <urhhoney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a thinkpad x200 tablet and i installed the newest iteration of
>> ubuntu and accidentally chose full disk encryption and then after install
>> realized what i have done.
>> Since the machine is solely for my wife, she was annoyed by it and
>> coincidentally i was running a apt-get upgrade and it was in the middle of
>> it. So i did what every man would do, listen to his lovely wife.
>>
>> I depressed the power button to force a restart and to reinstall ubunt
>> from scratch, but now it doesnt let me. I think it tries to write to MBR
>> and since its encrypted it ends up in an error if i try reinstall.
>> If i go into ubuntu its kind of broken but i do have access to a
>> terminal. But unity is not running i think so i see no desktop.
>>
>> Any ideas? how to reinstall from scratch???
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
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