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I'm installing Ubuntu fit the first time ever. I decided to do it alongside my Windows 7 installation.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on a USB stick. Everything started fine, but after a while there's nothing on the screen but a spinning wheel. I've been watching it now for more than 15 minutes :

spin-wheel

Do I have to worry? And in case there is a problem, how to fix it? Can I just reboot the computer and start over again?

UPDATE

The answer is much more silly than I thought. Apparently, the USB stick (physically) moved at some point during the install process and interrupted it.

As mentioned in the comments, all I had to do was to reboot the system and restart the installation all over again. It went smoothly. It even automatically detected how much space I assigned to each partition.

I hope this helps any one in the future.

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ahmed
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check the ISO image you downloaded, it could've gotten corrupted by some windows viruses while writing it to a USB flash and it is also good and not harmful to restart the process again and also checking the md5sum of the ISO is important

Olivier JM
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Please check your USB drive's .iso image. Sometimes due to high load the download is impacted and it might have been corrupted. You can make use of Universal USB installer to create the bootable USB. Could be issue with the USB drive also. Restarting is not a bad idea...it should not be stuck for so long(i haven't experienced such a long wait)

Ashu
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