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installed ubuntu on a External HDD, wont boot

first time installation ran after installing it to the HDD from windows and restarted.

but it wont boot after that, it freezes at a purple screen.

i tried to do those update commands in Terminal but i cannot for the life of me get them to work, it keeps saying i dont either have permission to do it, or have permission to write to disk. additionally ive tried to put it in safe GFX mode, ive tried turning networking on but it fails to boot the networking modem.

Please help.

Daggerfella
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Using WUBI is not recommended and it is recommended you install using the CD.

if you installed ubuntu to an external hdd, you probably just need to go into bios and make the external drive the first on the boot order or select boot menu during startup and select the hdd from there

it won't boot because the bootloader (grub) is most likely installed to the hdd instead of the main hard drive so it is not running when you boot. choosing the external hdd as a boot option or setting it first on the bootloader list in bios will fix this problem.

mchid
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