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Whenever I try to boot into Ubuntu 12.04 from my USB Drive, an error pops up on the black screen saying :

EDD: Error 0000 while reading from sector ****** .

Then a few moments later another such error crops up and it doesn't seem to end. I have already searched the web regarding this topic and I have stumbled on this page:

Though apparently, he has described everything very well, I did not know what to do at all. Being a naive computer user, I had no idea what 'grub' was, where to find the menu.lst file (I tried searching in my USB Drive but I did not find it) and I am absolutely stuck.

I rule out any possibility of my files being corrupted because I have downloaded Ubuntu 12.04 only today and all the burning part and all went absolutely perfect. I had formatted it before hand and everything seems to be fine with it.

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Format your USB disk and burn the ISO image with Unetbootin on your USB drive and make sure the USB device is working correctly. – KashmirHackers Nov 23 '12 at 15:15
Make sure you do check the md5sum for the iso you downloaded: help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM . It is sounding like bad download, or a real problem with the USB stick or hardware. – fabricator4 Nov 25 '12 at 1:50

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