“Feeling confident,I tried to install Unbuntu on my new Laptop alongside its current Win8 and the hard drive crashed. Just wondering if anyone else had a problem similar to this??”
Never saw your problem, but once I screwed up a dual boot install one time, but all it meant was that Windows was not bootable. Having said that, I never underestimate my chances for screwing something up so I always do a full backup before installing an updated OS.
Yes, I knew if I screwed up one laptop it would be my new “first team” computer.