Wubi doesn't work, folder "too small"

**Darvon** · April 29th, 2009

Hi!
I try to install 9.04 with Wubi, and it's always the same: The "Ubuntu" folder in Windows (drive C

is only 711 Mb. 698 of that are an image file of the CD. When I boot my notebbok, how surprising, I can't chose between windows and buntu.
I tried to install it from CD; from a virtual drive; With an image file placed in C: and without; downloaded wubi.exe and placed it in C: - it's all the same.
I'd like to install with wubi, because I don't feel like to mess around with my windows partition.

greets
Darvon

**CMJ Tech** · April 29th, 2009

How big is your hard drive?
I do believe that the minimum requirements for wubi are as following:
256 MB memory

Harddisk Space 5 GB harddisk space

Operating System: Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista

**Darvon** · April 29th, 2009

Well, my hard drive is 90something GB big, and I have 17 GB of free disk space at the moment; I chose to install a "10 GB Ubuntu".
I have 896 MB RAM.
That should be enough, I guess

**CMJ Tech** · April 29th, 2009

This may be a long shot, but I would try to defrag the hard drive in windows if you have not already done so. Then try to reinstall wubi again. You may have 17GB of free space but it may be fragmented over the entire hard drive because of how windows writes data to the disk.

**pparks1** · April 29th, 2009

Are you getting an error message when you run wubi.exe from the CD? I've installed using Wubi quite a few times and it's worked out well for me.

**Darvon** · April 29th, 2009

I've done two defrags before installation, and no, no error messages. After the installation I can even uninstall Ubuntu under windows.
But now I've got an idea: perhaps it helps to download the 8.10 version; if the installation works, I can still upgrade to 9.04.
Thanks for the help though, I'll let you know how it worked

**Darvon** · May 1st, 2009

It worked, was quite long, but in the end, it worked; I don't know what Wubi's problem is, but the version on 8.10 seems to be fine

Darvon

**CMJ Tech** · May 1st, 2009

Originally Posted by Darvon

It worked,

Darvon

That's great to hear!

I had similar problem installing ubuntu on my system. I started with 8.10 but had problems, tried to upgrade to 9.04 and the system would not boot. I had an old 7.10 live cd and tried it and it worked.
But I did learn a few things during my journey. I have 8.04LTS installed now.