ooten
March 5th, 2017, 06:53 AM
Greetings and thank you for taking the time to read and hopefully respond with a solution
Experience with linux: used windows for most of my life, have been using temporary ubuntu 16.04 LTS for a couple days from my only USB stick
Specs: Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz × 4
3.7 gb memory, 64 bit OS
I would like to permanently install ubuntu alongside my pre-existing (non-functional) windows 7 64 bit. As you can see from the images attached at the bottom, my harddrive im assuming has some problem that isnt in laymans terms. I have some valuable media on that harddrive that i would like to save. I looked on youtube and DuckDuckGo to see if anyone else had solved my unique situation themselves but with no luck. So i suppose my questions are, how do i safely partition this error-stricken harddrive so that i can install ubuntu permanently; also how do i save my valuable media files?
Im unable to access windows, if i boot windows it will do the chkdsk or scandisk i forget which. Basically it will run that program then restart itself, then run again and keep restarting....so windows never loads. If i choose to skip the chkdsk, it will go to the windows loading screen and then restart itself. I only have one low quality 8gb USB stick from which to use a live boot with, and my roommates computer which runs windows. She will be moving out any day now, so i dont have much time left with which to use her computer to load my USB stick with anything i might need to fix my own computer. There is no public library i can go to for computer access. In the final days of my windows being usable, it was painfully slow, even firefox would hang when i tried to double click firefox. I have a suspicion that the computer memory is screwed up somehow, but if its a problem that can be fixed with software (not hardware) then theres hope. I have had to manually push the power off button on the computer probably 2 dozen times in the last week....because it keeps hanging. Even ubuntu from the live USB will hang if im using an adobe flash-intensive website. Ubuntu also hung when i tried to update the the OS in "Ubuntu Software". Whenever the computer hangs the mouse is always unresponsive, and the keyboard is semi-responsive. The computer in windows would blue screen eventually...something to do with iastor.sys. On the last day windows was working i installed the latest intel rapid storage technology driver from the intel website....that seems to have made it worse. Sorry to involve windows on the ubuntu forum but i think its related to my partitioning problem.
What i DONT have: money (as in $0), screwdriver to open my computer. A windows 7 CD or any operating system CD. Blank CDs or blank DVDs. Recovery CDs
Thank you for any solutions, please use laymans terms im not good at this linux stuff yet :P
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Experience with linux: used windows for most of my life, have been using temporary ubuntu 16.04 LTS for a couple days from my only USB stick
Specs: Intel® Core™ i5 CPU M 460 @ 2.53GHz × 4
3.7 gb memory, 64 bit OS
I would like to permanently install ubuntu alongside my pre-existing (non-functional) windows 7 64 bit. As you can see from the images attached at the bottom, my harddrive im assuming has some problem that isnt in laymans terms. I have some valuable media on that harddrive that i would like to save. I looked on youtube and DuckDuckGo to see if anyone else had solved my unique situation themselves but with no luck. So i suppose my questions are, how do i safely partition this error-stricken harddrive so that i can install ubuntu permanently; also how do i save my valuable media files?
Im unable to access windows, if i boot windows it will do the chkdsk or scandisk i forget which. Basically it will run that program then restart itself, then run again and keep restarting....so windows never loads. If i choose to skip the chkdsk, it will go to the windows loading screen and then restart itself. I only have one low quality 8gb USB stick from which to use a live boot with, and my roommates computer which runs windows. She will be moving out any day now, so i dont have much time left with which to use her computer to load my USB stick with anything i might need to fix my own computer. There is no public library i can go to for computer access. In the final days of my windows being usable, it was painfully slow, even firefox would hang when i tried to double click firefox. I have a suspicion that the computer memory is screwed up somehow, but if its a problem that can be fixed with software (not hardware) then theres hope. I have had to manually push the power off button on the computer probably 2 dozen times in the last week....because it keeps hanging. Even ubuntu from the live USB will hang if im using an adobe flash-intensive website. Ubuntu also hung when i tried to update the the OS in "Ubuntu Software". Whenever the computer hangs the mouse is always unresponsive, and the keyboard is semi-responsive. The computer in windows would blue screen eventually...something to do with iastor.sys. On the last day windows was working i installed the latest intel rapid storage technology driver from the intel website....that seems to have made it worse. Sorry to involve windows on the ubuntu forum but i think its related to my partitioning problem.
What i DONT have: money (as in $0), screwdriver to open my computer. A windows 7 CD or any operating system CD. Blank CDs or blank DVDs. Recovery CDs
Thank you for any solutions, please use laymans terms im not good at this linux stuff yet :P
https://imghost.io/images/2017/03/05/a.png
https://imghost.io/images/2017/03/05/bbb.png
https://imghost.io/images/2017/03/05/ccc.png