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Originally Posted by Cogar
Since you were not watching the machine, it is very difficult to diagnose what happened. In your situation, I would abort the installation and restart the installation. (Use Ctrl-Alt-Delete or some other method to restart. Starting over does not have to be "elegant" in this circumstance.) Do not worry about "losing" what you have done already since everything will be overwritten during the installation. Good luck in any case.
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I pulled CD out of machine, and rebooted, there was no Linux in the Boot Up, so I am guessing that part, adding an entry by Grub Loader to MBR, never happened. Some one suggested a Mem Check, but I did that prior to installation - all OK.
So I went back into Windows, and through Admin, deleted Linuxpartition and reformatted drive back to NTFS. Might try WUBI on this drive. WUBI initiaLLY RAN ON THE PREVIOUS EXTERNAL OLDER usb DRIVE, BUT SINCE i COULDN'T BOOT FROM that (oops hit caps lock key by mistake) drive, I swapped the backup data to that drive, and cleaned the internal serial drive for the Ubuntu install.
If WUBi does not work, perhaps setting up a windows virtual machine on the internal 80 GB serial drive, and installing Linux that way and just bringing up the VM to learn and experiment with linux?