Unable to install Ubuntu at all!

[JTallis]

These are serious issues which have, well pretty much ruined my week.

First I tried a liveCD, and this says "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system".

I then tried the windows installer, and this says "Unable to find Installation Iso: path/to/installation.iso" - I don't remember the exact path but I did double check and the iso was indeed there.

I tried a liveUSB, and this refused to boot. Just booted up in Windows as normal and I did change the boot order.

What did work is when I had the liveCD in AND the liveUSB. It booted from the liveCD and believed the liveUSB was it's live file system from my understanding.

Though, during this - it was unable to detect my hard drive. The installation couldn't find any allocated space and when I ran the demo, it was unable to find any drives at all. Not even my disk drive!

I tried to recreate the liveUSB but with no luck.

I need some help, please. Thanks!

[Rubi1200]

Hi,

it sounds as if there might be an issue with the downloaded image.

Try this:

1. post the specifications for the computer

2. check the integrity: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

3. burn to CD at the lowest speed: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

For USB, I recommend UNetbootin:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

[coffeecat]

OK. Several things to look into there, but first things first. Did you check the md5sum of the downloaded ISO?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Did you burn the CD at the lowest speed possible?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

How did you create the bootable USB drive? This for in Windows:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick#From%20Windows

EDIT: Hah! Rubi1200 beat me to it! Great minds think alike. :)