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Ubuntu partition potentially broken

matwoodson
By matwoodson
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So after ubuntu prompted me to update and restart, I did, but when I went through GRUB and tried to boot, it just hung on the little purple box. After this, I tried booting into mode and it just gets stuck(picture down below)

I've haven't tried booting from a USB, and trying to

reinstall from there.

I am dual booting W10 and Ubuntu on a Lenovo p500 laptop. Windows still seems to work for now. Is there any way to fix this?3497ea4f29eac49e215e4cc823934040.jpg

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Yyyup, seems like a corrupted install (not necessarily the partition though). If you have no valuable data on it just reinstall.

Also, is there any way that I could replace the partition with a different distro?

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How would you recommend doing so?

 

in the same way you did it the first time - i generally use a dvd but if you prefer a usb drive is also an option.

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sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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Also, is there any way that I could replace the partition with a different distro?

 

well... you could just overwrite it, sure. that won't save your ubuntu installation though

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sudo chmod -R 000 /*

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