ok help I installed ubuntu wiping my hard drive completely and it instlled fine and it was fine i played around a bit got tired and and went to bed
next day (today) i wake up do the things you do and then booted up my Pc

I got to the black screen with the orange UBUNTU and the loading bar and the writing at the bottom

the writhing got to "loading hardware drivers and then stopped. i left it for about half an hour and then came back... it was still the same
. So i tried re-installing it from the live cd
And it has done the same thing again

Please help me
Thanx
Mort

I am assuming that it does work from the live CD.
Is that correct?
If so my guess ( and it's only a guess ) is that when you choose to install it to hard disc you may be setting some option wrongly.
Hope that helps.

Have you an PCI harddisk controller? Might be the cause. Boot from CD, try to find your hard disk and post content of /etc/fstab here.

HAHAH i'm sorry you must be mistaking me for a person who knows anything more than how to use basic boring easy programs!

help
a what controller and post what where?

Well, let's ask the question the other way: to what is your hard disk connected? Is it a SATA or a IDE harddisk? If you don't know open the case.

Post the content of /etc/fstab (a text file) of your Ubuntu install (the one on your harddisk, not the one from the live CD) here in the forum.

Can you run ubuntu from the live disc?
If you can then start a console ( a command prompt )
and type the following :

mount

then post what it says to this forum .