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the works crew room pc was being thrown out so I grabbed it to make it a Linux box.
It's an old vista box & any record of admin login has long been mislaid / thrown out. 
I chose "use whole hard drive" from the install menu, now it won't boot! 

Is there a quick fix to reset the hard drive?

 

all thoughts & feedback gratefully appreciated 

 

Bob

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if the PC uses UEFI bios and GPT you need to specify that when creating the boot USB.  I am familiar only with Ubuntu.

 

Linux drivers for HP printers are included in most distributions. Click here for details.

For additional help with Linux visit the ask Ubuntu forum;


Another place to ask questions is ChatGPT and anyone that can type and press the enter key can ask a question. You have to register. Start with ChatGPT and use the AI's answers to search AskUbuntu for more detail than the AI can provide.

configuration for booting Ubuntu on newer UEFI systems

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Let me know what you find out.


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