Hello empleyfire.
few things for you to help you out here.
1- If you can add you BIOS screen shot to the post we can help you out here.
2- did you try to install in safe mod?
this will give you the default Driver to boot the system up,
After the installation process you will get the option to install the best Driver for your card.
3- About startx - try sudo startx.
4- In your BIOS on the First option to boot from USB - you need to go to the Advance
of the boot - and OR with the - + key add the USB to be your first boot option,
then HDD - Disable the 3 option until you will end the installation process.
5- your problem here is with the USB Mount manger in the beginning+Mount for the USB.
so the best option that I can see is to go to the BIOS first and change the boot manager.
6- The real issue that you have now - is that your battery on the board hold the configuration
with all of your HDD!
the solution for it is to unplug your main (black)power cable from your machine,
then you need to get wire from your telephone line (with or blue) just one of them
like 10-15 cm and cut the plastic from the 2 ends of the wire - so the Fibres will be out
from bout sides.
then get the battery from your board out and connect from bout sides the wire for
7 sec!!! not one sec less or more = 7 sec!!!
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then add the battery back to your board and connect back the main (black)power to your machine.
This process will reset your board to get 0 Address on the battery.
So when you will boot up your machine -all the hardware will get new Address on the battery to save!
then you will be able to get your USB to work.
Cab had issues as the same due to his Master boot record being stored on multiple drives. MBR you are supposed to only have one of across your entire system. He also did not want to address the situation due to having a ton of O/S's installed. As highlander says "There can be only one." I am agreeing with many posts dropped by admin as this is in my unbiased opinion the culprit. Try a single hard disk and Ultimate Edition 2.5, please post results. If it fixes your issue I can walk you through setting up grub and multiple O/S's. Ultimate Edition 2.5 btw uses grub 2... adding a windows drive is as follows, I will not take credit from Eric, I know I recently had to do the same.
