zzephyr
August 5th, 2010, 08:54 PM
Hi,
I just installed Wubi 10.04 on my computer running Vista. I booted into Wubi/Ubuntu fine, then went to the updater. A grub update asked me to select drives to install it to: one I figured was either Drive C or D (both hard drives), another was an external flash drive that boosts Window's performance. I didn't choose the flash drive, but checked the first. I thought it interesting that there were only the 2 drives to choose from, but I figure that's because I installed Wubi on 7 GB of Drive D, not C, and it could read the external anyway (??? drive C was invisible to it???).
Anyway, upon restart, I NO LONGER get the screen asking which operating system I wish to boot, Ubuntu or Windows.
I get a black screen saying:
blah blah blah
Verifying DMI Pool Data ............
error: no such device: ###letters-### etc. {{{I'm figuring this is Drive D}}}
grub rescue>
I have no idea what to do. I've read some other forums/solutions, but they seem different than my problem by slight degrees, and I want to be sure that what I do won't ruin my system/the data on it further before I proceed.
I have a Windows installation disc, but am unsure if the "System Restore" would allow me to revert to a point before I had Wubi that would still keep my personal data (like an idiot, I haven't backed up my drives, so restoring from an external source is out).
Anyway, any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks
I just installed Wubi 10.04 on my computer running Vista. I booted into Wubi/Ubuntu fine, then went to the updater. A grub update asked me to select drives to install it to: one I figured was either Drive C or D (both hard drives), another was an external flash drive that boosts Window's performance. I didn't choose the flash drive, but checked the first. I thought it interesting that there were only the 2 drives to choose from, but I figure that's because I installed Wubi on 7 GB of Drive D, not C, and it could read the external anyway (??? drive C was invisible to it???).
Anyway, upon restart, I NO LONGER get the screen asking which operating system I wish to boot, Ubuntu or Windows.
I get a black screen saying:
blah blah blah
Verifying DMI Pool Data ............
error: no such device: ###letters-### etc. {{{I'm figuring this is Drive D}}}
grub rescue>
I have no idea what to do. I've read some other forums/solutions, but they seem different than my problem by slight degrees, and I want to be sure that what I do won't ruin my system/the data on it further before I proceed.
I have a Windows installation disc, but am unsure if the "System Restore" would allow me to revert to a point before I had Wubi that would still keep my personal data (like an idiot, I haven't backed up my drives, so restoring from an external source is out).
Anyway, any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks