Problems installing Ubuntu on a vaio with SSD, GRUB installation failure

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Published on 2012-07-26T12:14:26Z Indexed on 2013/11/08 4:19 UTC
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I have installed and used Ubuntu in several computers. But now I have a problem that I don't know how to solve.

I have a Vaio (Product name: vpcz13c5e), it has a SSD 128gb. I decided to install Ubuntu (12.04, but I have tried older versions as well). Firstly, I tested with live USB, and everything was fine, so I decided go for the complete installation. Then everything went as follows:

I chose to use the whole disk (first option, formatting everything).
I got a message

Executing 'grub-install' /deb/sdb failed. This is a fatal error
After clicking ok I got another window with 3 options:
- the first offers different devices to install the bootloader on (I tried all of them and none works).
- Second option: Continue without a bootloader. In that case I got
  
  You will need to manually install a bootloader in order to start Ubuntu
- The third option is Cancel the installation.

So, I chose Continue without a bootloader.

Then I restart the computer (with the Live cd) and in a terminal type sudo fdisk -l but I obtain

fdisk: unable to seek on /dev/sda: Invalid argument

What can I do? any help will be appreciated.

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