problem with 10.10 installation

[Xcursion666]

i recently installed ubuntu 10.10 on my new acer aspire one netbook and while it was installing my cat pushed my netbook off the desk and on to the floor it didn't seem to affect the installation process so i let it finish installing but after it was finished and after i reset it gave me a kernel panic so i wiped the drive clean and restarted the installation process after it was finished it gave some kind of io error and it referred to a sector on the harddrive i can login to ubuntu just fine but i cant upgrade or install anything it keeps telling me that my packages have unmet dependencies im thinking that when the computer dropped of the desk it screwed up the hard drive can this be fixed or do i have to buy a new drive a friend of mine said that my drive might have bad sectors on it any insight would be welcomed thanks in advance
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oh and i tried reinstalling again and that didnt work either

[ajgreeny]

I suspect the drop did some damage to the drive, or read-arm of the drive, and therefore you may need a replacement.

However, are you sure the iso file you used to make the USB drive for the install is a good one and conforms to the published md5sum, which you can find at UbuntuHashes - MD5sum (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes) For info on checking the md5sum see HowTo MD5SUM (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM)

If it does not match, download again, preferably with a torrent client, which checks the iso as it is downloading.

[Xcursion666]

I suspect the drop did some damage to the drive, or read-arm of the drive, and therefore you may need a replacement.

However, are you sure the iso file you used to make the USB drive for the install is a good one and conforms to the published md5sum, which you can find at UbuntuHashes - MD5sum (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes) For info on checking the md5sum see HowTo MD5SUM (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM)

If it does not match, download again, preferably with a torrent client, which checks the iso as it is downloading.

im pretty sure the iso is good i downloaded it from the ubuntu website and i used the start up disk creator in ubuntu to make a bootable flashdrive i used the same flashdrive to install ubuntu on my acer notebook and i had no problems if the drive is damaged that sucks because i just got the netbook 2 days ago i might be able to switch the drive from my old acer netbook which has 10.4 installed into my new one because i think they are the same size but i dont know if the drive is still good because my old netbook was destroyed in an accident (don't ask its a long story) and i haven't tested it


i just checked the md5sum and its correct