As I read step 5 at http://www.blackviper.com/Articles/OS/InstallXPHome/installxphome1.htm I see I can delete partitions and let Windows do the partition and formatting.
If you do this ahead of time you are an expert.
Bob
I wiped my hard drive several months ago and tried to install Windows XP Pro OEM (Someone gave me this computer and I wanted a fresh start.) This didn't work, so I formatted the hard drive using external enclosure kit. I got a weird error message when reinstalling, so I left it for several months and haven't really touched it. Now I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 and after it starts up and gets past the POST, I get message "bootmgr is missing press ctrl+alt+delete to restart" I recently took out graphics card and put it back in for practice, but I'm sure I put it back in correctly. I installed two computers using the same Ubuntu disc like two days ago. I have used multiple disc drives to boot from CD. No USB drives are attached, so its not trying to boot from those. How do I install Ubuntu using the CD?

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