Issues while installing Ubuntu 14.04 on HP laptop nx 5000

Question

I need some help. The installation went fine but when restarted I get the following message

Serious error were found while checking the disk drive for /.

I select option M for manual recovery and it says

Root file system check failed.

What can I do?

Thanks

possible duplicate of Root filesystem check fails after power failure during installation — John S Gruber, Apr 29 '14 at 16:12
@ hi John thanks, so I need to do re-install which should resolve. Is this the solution? — Satya, Apr 29 '14 at 16:42
I think I'd try Scott Wood's answer first since would take a lot less time and it seems that a lot of people have endorsed it. — John S Gruber, Apr 29 '14 at 16:46
Greetings I tried the first command sudo mount -o remount,rw / it says cannot remount block device /host/Ubuntu/disks/root.disk read-write, is write protected. — Satya, May 01 '14 at 10:04
Are you doing this from the maintenance shell? (That is, are you taking the option "M" for manual recovery and trying the commands from there?) — John S Gruber, May 01 '14 at 14:16
@ John - just to let you know that I am installing by downloading the files in windows XP and it takes around 4 hours — Satya, May 01 '14 at 14:32

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 04 '14 at 20:38

I faced exactly same issue. Then I realised that the way I did instllation was wrong. Do it in these steps.

Download iso image file (Do not unzip it or run WUBI.exe)
Prepare a Bootable USB drive (Need Min 3 GB free space)
Download a utility called Universal-USB-Installer-1.9.5.2
Run this Utility from your windows environment
It will ask for a iso file source, point to that
It will also ask for a USB, point to that and it will create the bootable usb for u
Now restart ur machine, Go to ROM based set up(F10 or F12)
Choose Boot from USB as first priority
That will give u option. Ubuntu will load either to be tried or installed. First try and the install..

Many thanks and I tried above steps with USB and while booting I get the following error message "Error PAE is disabled on this Pentium M" (PAE can be potentially enabled with Kernel Parameter). This installation has become pain for last 1 week now. — Satya, May 05 '14 at 05:37

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