Raid would be for secure storage, which I doubt is the case if you just have that laptop off the shelf in its normal configuration.

There's something wrong here where the install can't see your hard drive. My assumption is that it is the 320G HDD as advertised in that system's specifications.

Once again, sorry for your toiling efforts here. My lack of experience with Lubuntu is an issue in that I'd recommend full Ubuntu. However the small warning light in my brain just tells me that the "install" process for "L" or "K" Ubunutu should be no less capable than the install for regular Ubuntu. [bleep], I don't even know what the L and K variations are for, or how they're different.

What I can tell you is that you have an ATOM based computer and for me, MINT and/or Ubuntu seem to work best with ATOM CPU based systems. Well, MINT is based off of Ubuntu for one.

OK I googled to find that these variations are merely different desktop environments for Ubuntu.

Painful as it may sound, is there a system restore to bring you back to factory? Like is there a hidden partition on there when you go to BIOS where you can restore it to the original settings? So reset and then install from after that point? Perhaps also think back to how you got MINT on there in the first place and try to retrace how that went.

Hi there .. it is the 320gb, nothing changed there. I'll go and have a play around with the BIOS, see what i can find. The MINT install was so easy - I booted from UNetBootin and installed MINT over Windows 7 Starter, went through the same options as for this one, everything installed on /dev/sda - tickety boo - I was wondering what people found so difficult with Linux! Now I know. I'm wondering if I should recreate the UNetBootin install and try Mint again, although I'm thinking that because I can't boot from the hard drive, it comes up with the Asus logo, then goes to a blinking cursor and stays there, that I'll just have the same problem.
Thanks again for all your help .. deeply appreciated (as I go greyer and greyer and more saggy eyed as the hours go by).

Hi...

It appears you have the older BIOS and nor UEFI.

I could be wrong but I think it's quite unusual for linux not to find a hard drive during installation. If you can't get anything installed, take it to a local computer repair shop where you live, perhaps one that can work with Linux and have them get it straightened out.

Regards...

Hi everyone .. just wanted to say thanks for all your help .. I've managed to get it working again .. I had to do a boot repair, found the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair
boot-repair
Ran that, repaired the boot and then redid it with Advanced options to fix the MBR. My laptop is now booting into Linux Mint - it turns out that I never wiped it after all.

So .. back at square one .. I still want to replace Mint with Lubuntu because I've got broken packages in Mint that I've no idea how to repair! I've run all sorts of things for this but I guess that's another story (and another thread).

Thanks again :-)

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Hi...

Did you try here?

You might need to install aptitude first...

Regards...