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marekkoerlemans
November 6th, 2014, 07:49 PM
I tried to install ubuntu inside windows using a DVD, it got me to the screen where i can choose between install and try and then it got me to set up. After that is ask if i want to have ubuntu inside windows, erase windows and ubuntu only or something else. After i chose to imstall inside windows it said it had to restart and when clicked ok it says i have to remove the installation disk.

[problem start] however after i restarted and removed the installation disk it returns to windows, without even asking which i want to choose. How do I solve this?

[specs]
Windows 7 64b - ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64b
installation disk 4,7 gb dvd+rw(the drive and the image are good)

thanks in advance,
Marek

marekkoerlemans
November 6th, 2014, 07:50 PM
Btw, i dont think ubuntu has installed anything.

grahammechanical
November 6th, 2014, 08:12 PM
Was you running Windows when you inserted the Ubuntu DVD? If you installed Ubuntu inside Windows using wubi.exe, then the best advice would be use Windows Add/Remove programs and remove Ubuntu.

Wubi.exe is not longer being developed. It is not supported by Ubuntu developers any more and as very few of the members of the forum are running Ubuntu inside Windows there are very few us us able to give support based upon experience.

Please read this message from the Ubuntu forum staff

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2229766

Otherwise, you have to make clear that you installed using the "Install Alongside" option and not the "Install Inside" option.

Regards.

marekkoerlemans
November 6th, 2014, 10:16 PM
I wasnt using wubi, because i already knew it wasnt supported anymore. But the tage litterally said inside windows. But maybe i have tried wubi before so it is already installed, i will check my pc

bcbc
November 7th, 2014, 06:45 AM
If you have used all four primary partitions, then the installer cannot install a regular dual boot, so it offers to install "inside windows" as in with Wubi. It then copies Wubi to the windows start up folder. I guess when they stopped supporting Wubi they forgot to remove this feature from ubiquity (the ubuntu installer).

If this is your issue, then it looks like this: (and the fix is to remove one of your partitions manually, i.e. something else)
http://i.stack.imgur.com/WSbMV.png