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unable to boot to ubuntu

Asked by Euan Marley

Following a discussion on wubi on Digg, I tried the installer on the goodbye-microsoft,com page of debian. When I realised it was an installer, i decided not to go along with it, but now only have the option of Windows xp or the debian installer, when I reboot. I can't get ubuntu, even though wubi is still in my windows partition. Is it possible to fix this, without having to reinstall through wubi from scratch?

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jerle (behemoth3) said : 		#1

You could try re-installing the GRUB bootloader. There's a couple tutorials on how to do it http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall.html#Installing-GRUB-using-grub_002dinstall

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Best Geza Kovacs (gezakovacs) said : 		#2

backup C:\wubi directory (rename to C:\wubi_old, reinstall wubi (just the windows portion of the install procedure needed), then replace C:\wubi with C:\wubi_old to restore the install

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Euan Marley (euan-marley) said : 		#3

When I tried reinstalling using the wubi download, wubi-7.04-test.exe it reinstalled, with a some of the problems I had added, including wine programmes still there. Some of the multimedia progs were missing but easily reinstalled. The few documents I had downloaded were intact. Thankyou