Tell me more ×  I have a completely blank, new out the box, hard
drive. Can I still use Ubuntu 12.10 on my Laptop?  share|improve
this question I cannot see why not? Are you experiencing
problems? –  guntbert Feb 9 at 21:37 Specifically, what kind of
laptop? –  hexafraction Feb 9 at 21:40 To close voters: There's
really no need to close this (except perhaps as a duplicate).
Asking if Ubuntu needs any previous OS or data to install is a
perfectly good and well-formed question. –  Eliah Kagan Feb 10
at 12:04 add comment  closed as not a real question by Seth,
gertvdijk, Nathan Osman, Amith KK, hhlp Feb 10 at 14:31   2
Answers  Yes, you can install Ubuntu.  Ubuntu does not need:
• any operating system to already be installed   • any files or
data already on the hard disk   • the hard disk to already be
formatted  However, since your laptop doesn't currently have an
operating system on it, you probably will not be able to use it
to download Ubuntu and burn it to a CD/DVD (or write it to a USB
flash drive). So