omg thank you all so much it worked!!! you saved my ***!
omg thank you all so much it worked!!! you saved my ***!
I think I've got wubi on my computer. I put it through a few hard boots and now I can't get Ubuntu to start up like I used to be able to. Can someone help me? I have a lot of important photos on Ubuntu and I need to be able to access them. I don't know much about computers so go easy on me.
Last edited by wilee-nilee; December 10th, 2010 at 08:28 AM.
I had problem #1 due to Grub Update on a Wubi Install where Ubuntu is not installed on the same partition as Windows, and first I followed solution #1 for Problem #2. It did not seem to work. Then i applied Solution #1 for Problem #1 and now I'm able to boot into Windows. Thanks for that solution.
Although, I'm also observing that there's a Ubuntu option on my screen at boot time same as prior to the Grub-Update. Is this the fixed & updated version of my Wubi install and should I try to boot into it ? and if that succeeds, what are the possible steps so that this problem won't repeat itself ?
I'm using Vista, and I think I was using Ubuntu 10.10. I don't have a live CD.
"Only a life lived for others is worth living." - Albert Einstein
You definitely need to boot from a Live CD or USB. If you've got a USB drive and access to some other computer with internet access, download the Ubuntu ISO image and burn it to USB drive. You can do it from Windows that you are still able to boot on your own computer (??).
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...n/FromUSBStick
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net
I was using Wubi for a while and then one day it wouldn't let me use Ubuntu. As my computer would start up I would hit F12 and choose between Vista and Ubuntu. I have a whole lot of images I need, saved on Ubuntu. One day instead of running Ubuntu I got a screen that was kind of like the terminal thing where you type stuff in and make stuff happen. It was telling me to use TAB to access my options. I had a friend look at it and he kept saying the terminal thingey wouldn't read 'sudo' whatever that is. He put in a CD and made Ubuntu run again, but he couldn't find my photos. I can still run Vista, but is there any way I can get my pictures?
"Only a life lived for others is worth living." - Albert Einstein
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