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Lugwalker
May 29th, 2007, 10:14 PM
I attempted to download and install Ubuntu with Wubi this evening. After closing down Windows XP the process of booting into Ubuntu stops with the following:

Find--set-root--ignore-floppies/wubi/boot/grub/menu.lst
Warning: Unrecognised partition table for drive 80. Please rebuild it using a Microsoft-compatible fdisk tool (err=10). Current c/h/s = 60787/255/63
Error 17: File not found
Press any key....

Pressing any key opens a box with 'Ubuntu' highlighted. Choosing it fails to boot into Ubuntu and I'm back again at the above stage. I can go no further than that, so cntrl-alt-del brings me back into Windows again. Does anyone know what's going wrong here and what I might do to correct it? I also have the cd, but wanted to install Ubuntu alongside Windows so chose Wubi. Thank you.

Win XP home edition
2.6Ghz Intel Pentium
1054mb ram
700gb hd

ago
May 30th, 2007, 05:09 AM
There are some diagnostic tools here http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=33363&d=1180054219

You can dump the output into http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=439965