[SOLVED]Can't install to hard drive

[davidpcoleman]

I had Mint 17.1 on my laptop and it was working fine. I went to prison for 6 years. When I got back, it loaded and worked for about 20 minutes and then freeze.

I backed up everything and dloaded Mint 20.1. I could not get it to boot up. I had been wanting to try Ubantu, so I dloaded ittly. It boots up, but tells me there is a error and may not install correctly. I can run it off the boot disk, but if I try to install, it says error could not install. I have tried many times. I used one of the utilities and formated the disk with no change. I decided to load Windows and start from there. Blue screen of death on 3 different versions.

I like Mint and Ubantu and want to install one or the other. I am now relegated to working off the boot disk which is slow and if I reboot, I lose everthing, or use my backup laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate, which it's favorite saying is "Not Responding"

How can I get one or the other Linux programs to install....been very frustrating

[mihirmishra]

I'm not 100 percent sure but it could be that your Hard Drive is failing. Do you have an extra Hard Drive or SSD? And please tell me your Hardware configuration.

[cliffcoggin]

The installation disc/USB should give you option of testing before installing. That would tell you if your hardware is capable of running Mint 20.

[davidpcoleman]

Ok. I got Mint to install via USB. I have never installed from a USB. Actually I am on that computer now. All seems fine except that if I go to like you tube or other video site, it will hang up and I will have to shut it down and restart. On a whim, I left it on all night and it was still running this morning.
I have used the diagnostic tools with this computer and had it check memory and the hard drive and said both were 100% good, if you want to believe those tools.

Not quite ready to change this to a SOLVED thread yet. I want to see if it still hangs or not

[cliffcoggin]

I can't help with that but others will be able to if you if you post details of your installation. See the pimk banner at the top of this and every page.

[davidpcoleman]

Sorry I didn't post my configuration. But here is what I have.. It is a Hewlett-Packard and Linux Mint 20.1 Cinnamon ver. 4.8.6. I have a AMD A4-3305M APU running 4 Gigs of ram with a 500 Gig hard drive. It also has a Advanced Micro Devices graphic card. It's dual-core 2.8. Not sure about the cache on the CPU.


I am marking this as solved. As I said I installed off a USB disk with no problems. It initially locked on me watching You Tube videos (mainly music). I left it on overnight and have used it all day, including You Tube, with no problems. I am now copying files from the Windows computer over to this one. As soon as that is done, I will format the hard drive and install Ubuntu. I liked what I saw on the boot disk, but first used Mint about 10 years ago and want to keep using it. This one with Mint is my main computer.

[mihirmishra]

I wouldn't suggest to install Ubuntu on this old computer. It takes a lot of resources.

What I would suggest is to format the hard drive and install either Mint 20.1 Cinnamon or XFCE (I would prefer XFCE).

Sorry I was busy with my exams that's why I wasn't able to open the forums.