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I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my toshiba laptop along side Windows 7. When the menu comes up to choose which OS to boot into, I can easily boot into Windows 7. I cannot successfully boot into Ubuntu. All I get is a blinking cursor on a black/purple screen. I attempted the nomodeset trick, which was a bit more successful. I got a screen with a lot of code, but then it stopped with a blinking cursor at the bottom and wouldn't load anymore.

As a last resort, would returning my laptop to factory settings get rid of linux and the partitions made to the drive? I already did this to my laptop when it was just windows, which is why I thought I might as well try to add Ubuntu. But it's a lengthy process, and if it won't get rid of the partitions and ubuntu, I won't bother.

I appreciate any help ~many thanks

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To return your settings is very easy you could do this for example: How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on?

I strongly recommend you try booting back up with the installation media and select "Try ubuntu" Then download and run a program called boot-repair

If that fails I strongly recommend reinstalling ubuntu and even verifying the .iso sha1sum or md5 sum. Ubuntu should run on your computer without problem.

One time I had your problem and could not boot into linux because the hard drive that linux was on was not working properly

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