downloaded .iso, inserted disk, won't boot from disk

[sonaural]

as i said i downloaded the 9.04 .iso, burned it, and turned the computer on with the disk inside-- shouldn't that make my dell laptop boot from the disk and begin installing ubuntu?

the error message i get is:
no boot sector on internal drive

no bootable devices--strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility


i just installed a new hard drive but i can't imagine that i could have put it in wrong, it's pretty self-explanatory.

[sonaural]

the .iso i downloaded is called ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386. is there a seperate laptop file?

[logos34]

did you burn the iso (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BurningIsoHowto) as an image? Burning it as a data cd won;t work

[geraldvillorente]

did you burn the iso (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BurningIsoHowto) as an image? Burning it as a data cd won;t work

logos43 is right...burn the .iso as an image not as a data...you can use brasero if your running ubuntu...

[sonaural]

like a charm, my friend. like a charm. that was exactly what i needed.

the ol' simple but powerful mistake. thanks for the hand.

[geraldvillorente]

we should help each other...:P