Archie42dj
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you might remember me from my post the other day and i managed to get ubuntu 12.10 running on my machine...well it didnt last 
The other day i was on my pc browsing the web and all of a sudden all of the text turned into
shapes (squares). i instantly restarted my pc as i knew something wasn't right and when it tried to boot up again the splash screen seemed to freeze for a few minutes until eventually it came up with some boot options, so i tried all of them and on each one it would come of with some message along the lines of:
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/a77f81e8-1163-4e88-816e-3bde661f7b5c does not exist
Dropping to a shell!
The computer then failed to do this.
The computer would occasionally boot up properly and seem to run fine, but ver rarely, roughly 1 in maybe 15 or so, but it would work fine when it got running.
The situation has seemingly now got worse as now it just displays a message saying something to do with 'hard resetting link' but then just seems to freeze on this screen. I still have the same issue with the splash screen.
I have also tried booting ubuntu 12.10 (x64) fromm a usb in live mode and it shows a purple screen with a pixelated picture of a keyboard and a man at the bottom but then proceeds to come up with the exact same error as before
I am in desperate need of advice and would greatly appreciate any help
Thanks
p.s i dont really mind if i need to completely reset my hdd, there isnt anything hugely important on it anyway
p.p.s if you need any more info about my pc or situation just ask
The other day i was on my pc browsing the web and all of a sudden all of the text turned into
shapes (squares). i instantly restarted my pc as i knew something wasn't right and when it tried to boot up again the splash screen seemed to freeze for a few minutes until eventually it came up with some boot options, so i tried all of them and on each one it would come of with some message along the lines of:Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/a77f81e8-1163-4e88-816e-3bde661f7b5c does not exist
Dropping to a shell!
The computer then failed to do this.
The computer would occasionally boot up properly and seem to run fine, but ver rarely, roughly 1 in maybe 15 or so, but it would work fine when it got running.
The situation has seemingly now got worse as now it just displays a message saying something to do with 'hard resetting link' but then just seems to freeze on this screen. I still have the same issue with the splash screen.
I have also tried booting ubuntu 12.10 (x64) fromm a usb in live mode and it shows a purple screen with a pixelated picture of a keyboard and a man at the bottom but then proceeds to come up with the exact same error as before
I am in desperate need of advice and would greatly appreciate any help
Thanks
p.s i dont really mind if i need to completely reset my hdd, there isnt anything hugely important on it anyway
p.p.s if you need any more info about my pc or situation just ask
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