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donwolfe
May 21st, 2009, 05:24 PM
I am having the following problems installing Ubuntu 9.04 on an older PC running Windows ME.

First I tried installing Ubuntu within Windows, but the wubi.exe program fails to execute. Then I decided to install Ubuntu as a dual boot system from the CD, however, once it was installed, upon boot up the option to boot to Windows ME as an alternate system would not work. For some reason it thinks it should be booting Windows ME with NTLDR and at that point it fails to load Windows.

I had to reinstall Windows ME to get my PC to boot back into Windows, but it does not recognize the 7gb partion that Ubuntu set up and is installed into.

Should I try running an earlier version of wubi.exe to install into Windows ME and then use a partion manager to move Ubuntu over to it's own partion?

Thanks, Don