Did you try opening the installation dvd from ubuntu, does it mount and read normally? I'd suspect that the dvd is damaged and it keeps trying to read and that's why it takes long without any results, and being able to start up with a usb would sound logical in this case.
On Sep 16, 2011 3:39 AM, "TechON" <mrehman856@gmail.com> wrote:
> Problems on Dell dv9000 series laptop. It had win7 barely surviving
> viruses.
> At first i would randomly get hdd error when I ran bios(Pheonix) HDD
> tests. I took this HDD out, plugged in another comp with usb hdd
> enclosure. ran chkdisk disk had a few error which chkdisk fixed. plug
> the HDD back in lappy with same errors and bios hanging on initial
> screen for long time. and unable to boot win7 installation dvd.
>
> Since this laptop had two hdd. i took this out and replaced it with
> the second hdd. now i dont get hdd errors in bios tests, but still no
> dvd boot.
>
> I was able to ubuntu live usb though, and both hdd and dvd where
> visible.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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-- > Problems on Dell dv9000 series laptop. It had win7 barely surviving
> viruses.
> At first i would randomly get hdd error when I ran bios(Pheonix) HDD
> tests. I took this HDD out, plugged in another comp with usb hdd
> enclosure. ran chkdisk disk had a few error which chkdisk fixed. plug
> the HDD back in lappy with same errors and bios hanging on initial
> screen for long time. and unable to boot win7 installation dvd.
>
> Since this laptop had two hdd. i took this out and replaced it with
> the second hdd. now i dont get hdd errors in bios tests, but still no
> dvd boot.
>
> I was able to ubuntu live usb though, and both hdd and dvd where
> visible.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
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