blindape
December 7th, 2009, 02:31 AM
Hi,
I've had Ubuntu 8.10 installed with wubi on my Acer Aspire laptop since February. After several months of putting Ubuntu through it's paces and the fact that I now use Ubuntu over windows 95% I am convinced that I need to move to a dual boot system as it seems more robust (plus the fact that I can't update the wubi to 9.10). However when I booted into windows to uninstall wubi, it couldn't read the partition that wubi was installed on. When trying to access the D: drive the computer says that "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I tried running chkdsk on the D: drive but it found no problems. so I tried accessing d: drive and got the same problem.
Next I rebooted the computer and selected to boot into Ubuntu which worked fine! In fact from ubuntu I could read "all" of D drive without any problems. Also when I booted from the live CD for 9.10 I can also access d-drive without any problems. but I can't access it from windows to uninstall wubi.
So here is my question:
Is there a way to 'repair' things on windows so I can read D: drive and then uninstall wubi before installing ubuntu on the entire partition.
or
can I just re-format the entire partition without uninstalling wubi before installing ubuntu 9.10.
The reason I as this is how will windows and the boot sequence be affected if wubi isn't properly uninstalled. I don't want to be stuck without a working operating for any length of time as I need my computer for work, however wubi has reached the end of it's limits for me and needs to be upgraded to a full install.
Regards,
John Curwood
I've had Ubuntu 8.10 installed with wubi on my Acer Aspire laptop since February. After several months of putting Ubuntu through it's paces and the fact that I now use Ubuntu over windows 95% I am convinced that I need to move to a dual boot system as it seems more robust (plus the fact that I can't update the wubi to 9.10). However when I booted into windows to uninstall wubi, it couldn't read the partition that wubi was installed on. When trying to access the D: drive the computer says that "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable." I tried running chkdsk on the D: drive but it found no problems. so I tried accessing d: drive and got the same problem.
Next I rebooted the computer and selected to boot into Ubuntu which worked fine! In fact from ubuntu I could read "all" of D drive without any problems. Also when I booted from the live CD for 9.10 I can also access d-drive without any problems. but I can't access it from windows to uninstall wubi.
So here is my question:
Is there a way to 'repair' things on windows so I can read D: drive and then uninstall wubi before installing ubuntu on the entire partition.
or
can I just re-format the entire partition without uninstalling wubi before installing ubuntu 9.10.
The reason I as this is how will windows and the boot sequence be affected if wubi isn't properly uninstalled. I don't want to be stuck without a working operating for any length of time as I need my computer for work, however wubi has reached the end of it's limits for me and needs to be upgraded to a full install.
Regards,
John Curwood