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i used live-cd yesterday enable brother boot linux, because had virus on xp (stupid boy, it's third (!) time year) , told him back-up music using ubuntu before re-formatting.

while running live-cd, error printed saying of "bad cluster [number] on device sr-0" , error came alot, 60 or more times. device errors scare crap out of everything. quick forum-browsing learned me it's broken cd or smudged lens (which true, cleaning cd did trick), dad had opened computer , removing hard-drive replace new 1 (true story, 'tis...). "clusters, that's hard drive, isn't it?".

so, idea, in order make ubuntu user-friendly, low-effort distro, can't make these errors less informative, though evenly helpfull? adding sr-0 cd/dvd drive? or make "there seems problem disk, please reboot , run "check cd errors""/ "clean disk, please". or make them less technical?

since ubuntu trying gain grip on naive user (read people-who-use-windows-because-they-don't-know-any-better), these errors add "linux nerds , geeks"-reasoning.

people have learn c: drive called hd(0,1) , quite confusing new users (like myself). , understand long time users on there hind legs this, it's bad thing reduce information in error messages, new users, doesn't add. , 1 see ubuntu step-in-model-linux, get-to-learn-linux distro.

ideas?

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