startup disk creator installation failed

Yes, Windows installs software with known bugs. Those of us that run Windows Update manually, know to get all the updates, reboot and then check again. I went looking for more bug fixes and ran Update Manager again. There were no preset bookmarks and Firefox could not create any new bookmarks. There was a blank line where the Bookmark toolbar should have been. But the other web page, was rather than the usual home page. Starting Firefox, I was congratulated by Mozilla for updating to version 3.0.13, a very familiar web page. I had removed it to prevent kicking off an install by accident. Then I noticed that the icon to install Ubuntu onto the hard drive was back on the desktop. The udpates were applied and required a reboot, after which things went downhill.įirst I noticed that it didn't automatically log into my WiFi network, something that has worked in many other copies of Ubuntu and other distributions. And I know that 'Check' means check for missing patches, though I resent that it doesn't explicitly say 'Check for new udpates' or something a bit more self-explanatory. I've done this enough to know that Update Manager initially lies to you and tells you that your system is up to date, when it's not. Then I moved the flash drive (a.k.a thumb drive, memory stick, pen drive) to an Asus netbook, booted from it and ran Update Manager, the software update application, to get the bug fixes since April.

Startup disk creator installation failed