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eda_wiz
August 24th, 2010, 04:33 AM
I am installling ubuntu on my old (2003) Dell D800 laptop with celeron processor, using a CD (burned at home). The installation process is hanging for about 24 hours now; it says "copying files..." with progress at 63%. The progress has not changed for about 10 hours.

I have a single hard drive on the machine (... noticed issues with dual drives on this forum, so thought I'd mention).

Anyone seen this before? What could be the reason/remedy for this issue?
Thanks for any help.

uRock
August 24th, 2010, 05:17 AM
It is either a bad cd or possibly a bad HDD. Restart the disk and hit a button at the first purple screen to get the menu you need. Select the option to test the CD, if the CD is good, then boot it into live mode and go to System> Administration> System Testing and let it test your hard drive.