Can I simply put an empty hard drive in a computer that has a failed Windows 7 hard drive and install Ubuntu using an ISO disk?
If so, do I need to do any preparation before putting the clean hard drive in the computer?
Later Edit/Addition
1st Timer - wasn't sure whether to amend my original post or comment in one of the answers but thought I would start here.
Just tried installing Ubuntu on the failing hard drive alongside Windows 7 (probably a mistake) and the install apparently didn't take. Now get the following at boot:
error:no such device: 3835639b-a672-4cbd-bc34-a204cbe2d320
Entering rescue mode . . .
grub rescue>
When I type ls after the grub rescue, I get a laundry list of "partitions"?. If I list each one of the partitions after the ls command, I get: File system is unknown except for (hd1,msdos5) which shows Filesystem ext2.
As the hard drive is failing, I don't think I have lost anything - all data was backed up. Now I think my course of action is to remove the current hard drive and put in the empty one. When I do that, can I simply boot using the Ubuntu disc and then install Ubuntu?
You can install Ubuntu onto the empty hard drive without any initial preparation.
Just make sure you know the name of the empty hard drive so that you know which to install Ubuntu onto when going through the installation process.
However the simplest thing would be to remove the failed hard drive from the PC before you install Ubuntu. If you do so, there'll be no preparation to do on the empty disk - just put the Ubuntu disk in the DVD drive and it'll do the formatting and partitioning for you.
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