Ubuntu Installation :: Booting Windows XP (with Wubi) - Stopped Working
Oct 5, 2010
I had Ubuntu installed in Windows XP (with Wubi). One day my motherboard, let's just say stopped working. So, I had to replace my motherboard..., well I bought a new PC, but with the Hard Drive of the old one. When I first started it i got the same boot screen letting me choose between Ubuntu and Windows XP. Well, you can pretty much figure out that none of them worked. So, I installed Windows 7 (as the new configuration is pretty powerful). So, from the boot menu Windows XP was replaced by Windows 7 but still Ubuntu stays there and I can't figure out how to delete it.
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Mar 3, 2010
My windows vista stopped booting so I had re-install vista. Now that I have done that Vista automatically boots every time I turn on my computer. I can still see that the Linux partition is there but I do not know how to boot it.
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May 20, 2010
I'm dual-booting Ubuntu 10.4 (grub2) and Windows 7 (x64). Something stomped on my grub install on the windows boot sector (probably windows). I was getting errors like "Cannot find disk.." I updated my grub.cfg to what I thought should work and now I'm getting errors like "cannot find C/H/S values".
I've attached the RESULTS.txt. Its really a simple install, although I do have a RAID5 array; the RAID disks are just for data and hold no OS files. Both OS's are on /dev/sdd.
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Oct 12, 2010
I'm running VirtualBox in Ubuntu 10.10. Been using VirtualBox for ages. It stopped working a few weeks ago but I'm baffled. Windows XP begins to load and you see the animated progress bar then it powers down. There are no errors and it's not creating any log files.
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May 3, 2011
i 've downloaded and installed ubuntu 11.04 alongside win 7 via wubi, reboot my pc as the installer ask, but the boot menu does not appear on start, and windows 7 is loaded as usual. What can i do?
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Apr 17, 2010
My Laptop Config is as follows.
Compaq Presario V3700
AMD Turion64
2GB Ram
Windows Partitions
/dev/sda1 == C: (WINDOWS)
/dev/sda2
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I have been carrying out updates of both Vista & SuSE whenever i operate in them.
One (Not So) Fine Day, when i Choose from the Grub loader "Microsoft Windows Vista SP2" option it just din't boot into Vista. I have Tried many a time.
My First doubt was towards Vista only, so i choose the "Windows Recovery Mode" option from Grub. It went into the Recovery mode. I ran Memory Tests on Windows Partition, took its own sweet time, whatever missing indexes and all it carried out and finally gave the Thumbs Up result. After that, i carried out Startup Repairs, all came out well. So, Yet again i restarted and tried to get in Vista. Nope, dint work.
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Mar 13, 2011
i have installed wubi on my computer and now i have made a copy of the Ubuntu file so i can try Natty without wrecking my install. i used EasyBCD to make another bootloader entry for it and bcdedit command line and it works fine. but it is selecting the original /ubuntu/disks/root.disk not the new /ubuntu2/disk/root.disk.
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Feb 6, 2010
What are the pros and cons of using wubi instead of dual booting?
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Jun 1, 2011
dell support thread was a damn joke, i m trying to put ubuntu on a new dell inspiron m5010 using wubi. everything was going great untill after the install on reboot the login screen takes 5 min to fully load. after i log in, it takes another like 5-10 min to fully load. i already tried pci=noacpi that did nothing. i tried loading in ubuntu classic (with no effects) that helped some, but still slow. any thoughts?
dell inspiron m5010 (64bit sys)
amd phenom(tm)IIn850 tripple-core 2.20ghz
ati mobility radeon hd 4250
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Apr 1, 2011
I put Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Desktop Beta 1 on a flash drive using 7-zip and am trying to install it on a (this is all I know about it) an HP G71 laptop, but when I hit Esc (as instructed) to interrupt the boot process, when I hit USB DEVICE, It starts up with Windows.Is there a way to do a basic install with wubi without booting up from the drive?!?!?!?!
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May 9, 2011
Keep getting the same error message trying to install via Wubi under Windows XP. When I download and run wubi.exe, I get an error message that I can't dismiss that reads: Windows - No Disk There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive .(sic) I've tried downloading the appropriate .iso and putting it in the same directory as wubi
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Nov 7, 2010
I found out that my installation was incomplete. So I reinstalled Debian using the businesscard image on a DVD. It worked fine, but I have a hardware constraint on my computer. I have two SATA hard drives and one SATA CD/DVD drive, and only two SATA connections on the motherboard. So, to install Debian I had to remove one hard drive and put the CD/DVD drive. When I saw that Debian was working, I removed the CD/DVD drive, and that's when Debian stopped booting. It said it couldn't find tty and opened BusyBox, giving me a command-line interface, and the line started with (initramfs) before the commands (with the parenthesis).
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Feb 5, 2010
I recently installed ubuntu 9.10 32 bit using live cd onto a recently new Dell machine with windows7.
Everything was fine for a couple of weeks, but last night I got the error code...
Looking into the forums, I see that maybe I need to re-install grub 2. When I started probing using fdisk, I saw that the boot partition was my windows partition. So, I thought I would ask to find out if this looks right before I start making things worse code...
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Jun 14, 2011
is it possible to recreate the whole wubi installation?Thats the situation: I only have 1 partition on my HD so i installed ubuntu via wubi and it worked perfectly fine. Recently though, i had to format my Windows but i backed up the whole installation folder of wubi/ubuntu.Now i want to get my wubi installation back. I know i can access the *.disk files with several tools, but im not opting for recovering some folders. I want the complete installation running again. So is there an easy way to recreate it?
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Jun 23, 2011
How will be complete windows login after installation wubi? How to make choice between load windows and linux?
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Jan 10, 2010
I just got finished wubi installing ubuntu in windows 7, and when I select ubuntu from the dual boot menu I get a strange message.
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Jan 26, 2010
I have a quad core box with Windows 7 64 bit installed on it. When I try to install wubi I get an error box immediately after clicking on the exe file that says pyrun.exe at the top of the box and the text says no disk in drive insert disk into drive deviceharddisk2dr2 I have to use the task manager to close that window in order to do anything else. I can't get past this error. I would love to use wubi to put ubuntu on my system.
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Feb 17, 2010
i'm currently using windows 7 and i am planning to install windows xp service pack 3 for the dual boot.is it possible to also install ubuntu? to have 3 os in my computer?will the ubuntu 9.10 and wubi work in windows 7?
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Sep 9, 2010
I'm an experienced Ubuntu user and thus far avoided the need to ask too many questions, but this one's a bit of an odd one.. I want to run 10.04 on my XP pro SP2 box at work so I thought perhaps I could run it via Windows by using Wubi - usually I dual-boot or run independently. However due to several factors this isn't possible in this instance, so rather than intall VMWare and all that palava, I figured Wubi would do the trick. Not used it before tho
The installer starts ok, but once it starts to download the install files it interferes with my network connection to the point where all my connections suddenly drop, and the install fails. I don't know wtf it's actually doing at this stage, because my SSH sessions to other machines seem to persist but I can no longer browse the web, IM loses connection (both MSN and Skype) - which could indicate it's interfering with my DNS? Even after closing the installer I just can't do anything without having to reboot the machine.
I just grabbed the latest installer from the site and ran the install. I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything wrong - but for some reason this clearly does not work on this machine. Am I missing something before I give up and try another tactic? It's turning into an awful lot of effort just to use one piggin' app...
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Feb 1, 2011
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 using Wibu inside Windows and installation looks good without any problems but when I select Ubuntu in Boot POST menu after I see Ubuntu Desktop I see error it's saying that Root directory is not specified and there is OK button and if I press it I see same message. only way to get out is to click restart in top right corner. My Windows installation is on RAID0 SSDs and I actually tried to install it on same partition as windows and even tried to install on NEW unallocated and freshly formatted partition. Nothing works. I am thinking to install it from Live CD however in advance formatting on let's say 20gb of space what do i assign ? Like how do I partition it like root directory and swap and other partition i ll need. Like can you specify all I think 3 different partitions I'll need and how much space to allocate for each on let's say 20GB of space.
I remember I had a choice "Use all free space" and it was soo simple I could have windows and some unallocated space on hard drive and Ubuntu would of use it . Now I don't see this option. I see use entire disk ...or advanced where You have to create on unallocated space all parts of partitions needed that's
EDITED: My System info if u need it.
Mobo: Asus P6T Deluxe
CPU: i7 920
RAM: 6GB G.Skill PC1333 cards
BOOT HDD: OCZ Vertex 2 64gb x 2 in RAID0
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Mar 4, 2011
I just got a new pc without os on it... I wanted to install Ubuntu, but for some reason Ubuntu live cd wouldn't boot. So, i installed Windows 7 and then i installed ubuntu with wubi... My question is: Will i be able to use Ubuntu after Windows 7 30 day trial expires? When windows 7 trial expires will it only lock windows 7 or will it destroy boot file (I read that somewhere on the internet)?
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Dec 28, 2010
mouse and keyboard are not working after i installed ubuntu 10.10 using wubi
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Apr 23, 2010
I will be getting a new computer soon, and I would like to transfer Wubi partitions from one computer with Windows to another. (The reason I want to transfer the partitions instead of just making a new installation is because I want to keep EVERYTHING intact and all the files/settings/applications/etc the same.)
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Aug 30, 2010
My desktop has been running both windows and ubuntu for a couple of months via wubi. The plan is to eventually migrate fully to ubuntu though. Simple question, I hope, is it easy to effectively remove the windows side so that I don't have to make a new reinstall of ubuntu from scratch?
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Oct 22, 2010
I installed ubuntu by WUBI on windows...now i want to read and write on my windows drive where ubuntu is installed... but i want to view other things like the softwares installed in windows.
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Nov 3, 2010
i have installed ubuntu using wubi, now i want to delete windows from the computer but how ? the reson i used a wubi install was that i used an old computer who had defect cd room and no option for a USB boot.
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Nov 26, 2010
I want a well maintained guide which shows how to dual boot windows xp and ubuntu 10.10 without wubi and not corrupt my Windows Installation.
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Dec 28, 2010
I got the BSOD on Windows 7 and I was unable to fix it at all. But I had already installed Ubuntu on my computer a while ago with a wubi installation. I look and saw other form posts/ tutorials online and ever time I follow them the error I end up getting is hard drive already mounted. Is this because I am already on that hard drive by running Ubuntu or is it because of a bsod error. Also what will happen if I force unmount my hard drive? Basically I want my files from the windows portion so I can move them then too a portable hard drive and factory reset my whole computer.
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Dec 28, 2010
I just installed Ubuntu from Windows using wubi.exe.
Now, i wanted to remove windows from my system completely, and clean my startup.
My startup currently shows me the options Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
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Apr 14, 2010
I recently did a Wubi install of 9.10 on my netbook that initially ran Windows 7 Starter. I wanted to speed up the booting process so I went into Windows and set the OS selection list waiting time to be 0 and the default OS to be ubuntu. I did this assuming that there is a way to force OS selection list to be brought up during boot; I think I was wrong.So now, I'm stuck booting directly into 9.10 (not even a full install!). Is there a way to either modify the Windows boot file to reset the selection list timer or to force the list to be brought back out?
EDIT: I should note that editing the grub files within the wubi install would only make changes to the GRUB loader, which has no effect on the actual Windows loader.
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