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Excellent! Glad you got things sorted out.

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the link is not working for me. try running and posting again.

One possibility is that GRUB was not correctly installed, but we need to see the results of the...

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Couple of things to try:

1. make sure you burn the DVD at the lowest possible speed or try a CD instead

2. Some graphics cards may require the use of...

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Please run the boot info script and post the results here.

There is a link at the bottom of my post with details.

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I suggest using a LiveCD/USB to try and boot the computer.

Then follow the instructions in the link at the bottom of my post and run the boot info script.
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I am pasting the results here so we can all take a better look.


Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012]


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Calling on some others to offer advice here.

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You need to get hold of either a liveCD or liveUSB to boot the computer.

Then follow the instructions in the link at the bottom of my post to run the boot info...

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It could be a graphics issue you are experiencing.

Try using nomodeset at booting time as outlined here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
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Asking others to jump in and help you out here.

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Please run the boot info script and post the results here in a new post.

There is a link at the bottom of my post with instructions.

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Please post some more information so we can help you.

Computer make and model, operating systems, if you have RAID etc.

The more you tell us, the better...

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you will need to get hold of a LiveCD/USB and then boot the computer to be able to run the script.

It is a diagnostic tool to help find out what is gong on.

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Please post the results of the boot info script.

There is a link at the bottom of my post with instructions.

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Try downloading the Desktop CD ISO of the version you want to install and the relevant wubi.exe

Place them both in a folder, for example on the desktop, and...

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what graphics card do you have installed?

please also post other relevant information such as which version of Windows, what computer make etc.

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Does running


sudo apt-get update

produce error messages?

Post them here please.

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I would try using nomodeset when booting.

See here for more details:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132

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What graphics card do you have installed?

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The script results do not look promising.

Stop ALL read/write activity on the HDD right now and only use a LiveCD to do anything from this point on.
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Open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T and post the contents of the sources list:


cat /etc/apt/sources.list

Let's take a look before doing anything and...

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To open the terminal use Ctrl+Alt+T and run the following commands:


sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update the first one...