I installed Ubuntu onto my computer, and after awhile i decided to completely delete my windows side, so i turned around and installed ubuntu fully and formatted the whole hard drive, what happened was after i did that, it said failing reallocated sector count. I poked my father who has a degree in computers, and said i had to defrag or reformat the hard drive, now both sound crazy to me, but if he said i should jump off a cliff, i would salute him and say right away sir. So after looking up how to defrag it, found out it didn't need defragging, i turned around, backed up my personal files, and tried to put the ubuntu disks... found out it didn't want to run from disk, so i told my dad, he said pop in the repair disk for it. I replied that I didn't have one, he asked if i had any repair disks, I told him i had an acer 2420 repair disk. He said that would work, I tried it, it installed everything after a few minor issues saying it needed to reformat the drive. So i followed the step by step directions of the disk, and it did what it would do. Now, I boot it up, and it's still running on the ext3 format and it now says
Any way to fix this?
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Edit: rewread it and fixed my errors

Sounds like a comedy of errors. I don't have a computer science degree. But it sounds like your dad doesn't know Linux. I understand though about respecting your Dad. I am a Grandpa.

When you inserted the Acer Repair CD. In effect. You wiped Ubuntu off the drive but left the grub boot loader behind. So when grub boots. It tells you that it can't find anything to boot.

I don't even understand this statement

And as far as Yeah there is. Boot up the Ubuntu Disk and run it as a live CD. Delete every partition on your drive that the Acer Repair Disk put on there using Gparted. If you mean Ubuntu CD won't boot now. Boot up a Parted Magic cd and run it live and delete those partitions till the drive is empty.

Then use (by the way, you never mentioned which Ubuntu) you can use this tutorial to install.

http://howtoforge.net/the-perfect-de....04-lucid-lynx

If not Ubuntu 10.04. Just google the Perfect Ubuntu Desktop and pick which how to to use.

Edit: after reading your original post. Was this previous install of Ubuntu a wubi install inside of Windows? That would make sense on why you are struggling with partitioning a drive. Just wipe the drive empty till all that shows is unallocated space. Then insert the Ubuntu CD and let it boot up to Desktop. Choose to install. Accept the defaults. It will partition automagically for you and install.

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it was installed seprately, i partation the hard drive to install it, after awhile, desided that having windows was too much of a headache so i desided to install it fully. and how do you run it as a live CD? I tried burning two copies of the disk, and both of them refuse to boot from disk. i keep on getting the grub issue, nothing is working. please someone help. It will not boot up into anything, just the grub line

After looking into information on burning iso correctly, due to the fact i never ran iso's before, i got a Ubuntu disk that you can boot from. and besides the issues with Reallocated Sector Count and Current Pending Sector Count, It is running just fine,