Andyj2008
October 8th, 2012, 09:31 PM
Good evening,
I am brand new on here but have been using Ubuntu (as a partition on my personal and work computers) for quite a few years. I would like to pick everyone's brains about installing Ubuntu on an old laptop, eliminating Windows altogether.
The laptop in question died on me about 3 years ago with the error "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows system32 hal.dll"
I wanted to buy a new laptop anyway so that was excellent encouragement. My question is this, can I install Ubuntu on the "deadŁ laptop without reinstalling the missing/corrupt hal.dll file?
I have had a bit of a play around and can access all of the BIOs and boot menus and can even get a pen drive to light up (on which I have saved the ubuntu.iso files) but it doesn't seem to want to do anything.
Does anybody have any idea how I could get around this? Sorry if this is a stupid question, or if it has been asked before I cant get anywhere with it at the moment.
Many thanks in advance.
I am brand new on here but have been using Ubuntu (as a partition on my personal and work computers) for quite a few years. I would like to pick everyone's brains about installing Ubuntu on an old laptop, eliminating Windows altogether.
The laptop in question died on me about 3 years ago with the error "windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: windows system32 hal.dll"
I wanted to buy a new laptop anyway so that was excellent encouragement. My question is this, can I install Ubuntu on the "deadŁ laptop without reinstalling the missing/corrupt hal.dll file?
I have had a bit of a play around and can access all of the BIOs and boot menus and can even get a pen drive to light up (on which I have saved the ubuntu.iso files) but it doesn't seem to want to do anything.
Does anybody have any idea how I could get around this? Sorry if this is a stupid question, or if it has been asked before I cant get anywhere with it at the moment.
Many thanks in advance.