Installation Oops... Need help!

[Alvina]

Thanks to those who answered!

First of all, I'm using Windows 7 on a Acer Aspire 5741 laptop, if that can be of any use...

I downloaded "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" from the Ubuntu website with FireFox.

... and I've encountered a slight problem... ehh

After selecting "32-bit" in Step 1, "USB Stick" & "Windows" in step 2, I clicked "Start Download." A window popped up needing to know what program to open this with after the download was finished. The default program was "NTI Media Maker 8," which I clicked OK.

An hour or so later, after the download was finished, the NTI Media Maker window popped up. I planned on transferring the .iso file onto my USB via Unetbookin.

The problems:

1) I can't locate the file.

The FireFox download window says it's here:
Acer (C: ) -> Users -> MyUsername -> AppData -> Local -> Temp

There are a whole bunch of files, folders, and documents along with the ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso file. The file type of this is "NTI iso file."

I read on a Microsoft website that "AppData" isn't an actual folder. "

"It's a Junction which is only there for backward compatibility. A Junction is a shortcut that redirects files and programs to a different location."

2) When I go to my start menu (the little flag down on the bottom left), the buttons on the right side do not work anymore. (Documents, pictures, music, computer, etc.)

If I click on one of those, a mini window pops up with a shiny red 'x' button that says "System call failed."

I'm concerned that I messed up my hard drive.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I really want to switch to Linux.

Please help me. I don't know what to do !

[nujinini]

Hello & Welcome Alvina!

First of all, I'm using Windows 7 on a Acer Aspire 5741 laptop, if that can be of any use...

I downloaded "Ubuntu Desktop Edition" from the Ubuntu website with FireFox.

After selecting "32-bit" in Step 1, "USB Stick" & "Windows" in step 2, I clicked "Start Download." A window popped up needing to know what program to open this with after the download was finished. The default program was "NTI Media Maker 8," which I clicked OK.

I'm not really sure but I think it should not have been opened coz its an ISO image, if I got it right?

The problems:
1) I can't locate the file.

The FireFox download window says it's here:
Acer (C: ) -> Users -> MyUsername -> AppData -> Local -> Temp

There are a whole bunch of files, folders, and documents along with the ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso file. The file type of this is "NTI iso file."

Did you try looking for it at My Documents> Downloads
Anyway, I don't know if this would be really right but maybe you can try download again as ISO
and after process, set your bios to boot USB and boot restart your system with the USB (w/ ISO) stick attached. Just a guess

Good luck!

[Kloschüssel]

1] downloads are stored to a temporary folder if you say firefox to open them, once you've opened them and the child process exited, firefox will make sure the temporary file is being removed. this explains why you can't find it.

2] that sounds like something completely far off, let's Q'n'A for more information.

a) Did you actually install ubuntu?
b) Or did you just download the iso image and opened it with this "NTI Media Maker 8"?
c) if you installed it, please explain the partition setup before and after the installation (you could have overwritten something)
d) if you didn't install it, what did you do during this hour? it just looks like you messed things there. a plain iso image from the ubuntu website should not be able to mess your computer - not even when it is burned to a ISO with the NTI Media Maker (google told me that this is a cd/dvd burning software)