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My Acer Aspire became very slow with Windows 10 running on it so I formatted my hard disc on my acer Aspire laptop and tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 but the installation takes hours and constantly hangs at /usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_components/nwidgets.py:xx: warning: source ID xxxx was not found when attempting to remove it Glib.source_remove(self.rows_changed_id (xxxx the number goes up)

I made various attempts trying to find a solution but it is still the same. I could finish the installation last night but then it froze at black screen with Ubuntu and the spinning wheel that froze and that was it (I later thought I could have tried nomodeset)

But now I am stuck at another slow installation attempt. Could this be the hard drive that is not good? I saw that when I tried Ubuntu: Disk likely to fail soon. Or could there be a solution? So I can install Ubuntu on my laptop.

This does not look good. enter image description here

Rosarium Lane
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From the comments...

After reviewing the disk SMART Data values, it looks like your HDD is failing.

Backup your important files asap.

Order a replacement HDD or SSD.

Don't try and clone/backup your current disk to the new disk, as you'll probably only get a corrupt copy. Reinstall Ubuntu from fresh, and then restore your backed up data files.

heynnema
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