Installer Crashed in Zorin OS 5 at MSI FX400 i3

Wolfman wrote:Hi,

did you burn the disk at the slowest speed, if you did not; you could well have a corrupted install, try restarting and go into recovery mode then select "dpkg" from the list, let us know what happens!!.

Regards Wolfman

swarfendor437 wrote:

AceKing 721 wrote:I am having the same problem with the installer crashing. At first I thought it was the CD. I tried it installing it from a USB drive and I'm getting the same error. I tried both 64 and 32 bit versions with the same results. I also tried to run in "safe graphics mode" with same results.
I am trying to install on my Toshiba Satellite C665-S5123 laptop.
Here is my laptops stats:
Processor: 2.3GHz Intel Celeron 925 (3MB L2 Cache)
Display: 15.6-inch TrueBrite TFT LCD Display (res:1366 x 768)
250GB SATA Hard Drive (at 5400RPM)
Connectivity: Etherner 10/100; 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN
Intel GMA 4500M (128MB-829MB) Graphics
I/O Ports: 2x USB 2.0; 1 RGB; 1x RJ -45 Ethernet; 1x Headphone-out; 1x Microphone-in

Since the failed install, GRUB will not boot, so I can't even get into Windows 7. I get an "error: file not found" message and it sits at a grub rescue> prompt.
Any help would be appreciated

Hi AceKing 721, welcome to the forums - sorry to hear you are having a rough time of things. Firstly, did you create your recovery DVDs for your Toshiba laptop? (I know they don't tend to come with recovery media any more - you have to create your own. The other issue is (and I have only got 7 Starter on a netbook so cannot comment on Laptops) does your version of 7 give you the option of creating a repair disc? It does on my desktop and this should be created as soon as you get back to a working Windows desktop. If possible (because you are posting I assume you have another machine to access) download UltimateBoot CD - I have found this to be useful when I could not get rid of grub.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Bac ... t-CD.shtml

I have used this to get past the GRUB issue to boot into Windows - if you have any valuable data on their I advise you back up once you get in their - you may need external DVD writer or external hard drive to do so as the Ultimate Boot CD obviously needs to boot from your onboard Optical drive - hope this helps.

neojohan wrote:I KNOW THE CULPRIT!
Checked - encrypt folder

But still my laptop MSI FX400 hard disk is dying. It keeps boot error after 3-4 days of reformat with any OS.

antennaman wrote:OK, I defragged and did the loooonnnnnggg version of Chkdsk and followed your instructions to the T and still ended up in the same situation. The installer crashed as it was creating the user. (It looked identical to the screen capture in the beginning of this post.)
I was sure looking forward to having Zorin along side W7. (This is the first time I have PAID for a Linux OS and now it won't install)
More help?

antennaman wrote:This was a download. I did a checksum on the download and burned a 8x, which has always worked ( I even loaded Firefox to get the download) I think there is more to my problem than file integrity...