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Question #77816 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77816

    Status: Answered => Open

eipapp is still having a problem:
I'm not sure about that WUBI thing, but when the computer booted up it
recognized the CD and asked if I wanted to install Ubuntu and I selected yes
and it just loaded onto my computer.I checked the OS's as you asked and
these are the options:

Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
Ubunto 9.04, memtest86+

Other operating system:
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition

I selected XP which took me to a second screen:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Ubuntu

as I've been down this road before I selected the following option from the
bottom of the second screen -
"Press F8 for advanced options (I pressed F8 while the XP operating system
was highlighted)
and this gave me the following screen options:

Safe Mode
Safe Mode with Networking
Safe Mode with Command Prompt

Enable Boot Logging
Enable VGA Mode

Last known Good configuration (your most recent setting that worked)

Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows domain controller only)

Debugging Mode
Disable automatic restart on system failure

Neither Safe Mode and Safe Mode with Networking did not work to get me to
Windows
Last Known Good config did not help either.

I tried the CHKDSK you suggested at the grub> prompt but nothing happened so
I'm not doing that correctly I guess.
Tried to do this under the Safe Mode Command Prompt and no results there
either, so need more guidance from you on that feature.

Hope there is something in the above that will be useful to you in helping
me to resolve this issue.
As before whenever I select the Windows OS option at boot I get the normal
Windows XP splash screen but after about a second or two it fails to load
and takes me back to the boot screen and prepares to start up Ubuntu.

Bruce

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Jeruvy <question77816@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> Your question #77816 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77816
>
> Jeruvy proposed the following answer:
> I'm still not clear on how you installed Ubuntu.  You say:
>
> "...boot from CD and then proceeded to install Ubuntu."
>
> If you booted from CD then Ubuntu loads a liveCD environment.  If you
> clicked 'install ubuntu' from here, what did you do?
> If you selected Install from the boot menu, then it would install normally.
> Which method did you use, normal or wubi?  It's sounding a lot like a wubi
> install.
>
> To see what OS's are detected at startup, boot the system normally (no
> cd in the drive) and hit escape to get the grub menu.  This should list
> all your boot options.  Please list off all the choices you have.
>
> Now one of them should be your windows install.  Select this.  Depending
> on configuration this should eventually load the OS Splash screen, and
> then a welcome/login, and then a desktop.  If it fails here, then it's
> likely Windows that has a problem, my guess would be a corrupt disk.
> You should run CHKDSK on your hard disk (not ubuntu disks...) that has
> windows on it.  Typically C:.
>
> Caveats to WUBI installs:
>
> 1.  Need to partition an NTFS volume for a virtual disk.  Done by the
> installer.
> -- If the disk has low free space (I deem less than 50% or 40GB low...even
> if you don't :) then you're going to cause the hard disk stress by adding
> another large file (virtual disk) for the WUBI installer.  Should not be the
> end of the world, but on older hard disks this could be the breaking point.
>  Remember, windows really likes to see 15% free space in order to not have
> large performance issues or worse problems.
>
> 2.  Fragmentation and existing disk errors are not checked before the WUBI
> installer runs.
> -- Heavy fragmentation means your virtual disk may be all over the place
> and performance will suffer as a result.  Any errors may get allocated and
> cause either OS to crash or experience weird problems.  This could be the
> end of the world :)
>
> So if you install WUBI then you need to make sure your disk is in really
> good shape first.  Run CHKDSK /f before to make sure no errors on the
> disk.  If you only have a C: drive (one hard disk, one partition) then
> make sure you have LOTS of free space.  Defragment the drive before
> installing WUBI and if you are using the built in defragmenter in
> Windows, run it several times since it's not very good.  Commercial
> defragment tools will do this job much better.  Then when you get to
> running the WUBI installer create at LEAST ONE partition for Ubuntu that
> is 8GB 'just for the system and OS' and another one for your files and
> stuff, I'd recommend 20GB for the second one, however if you just want
> to make one partition, make it at least 20GB.  This should allow you to
> do updates without running out of space and allow you to download stuff
> (cause you will :)
>
> HTH,
>
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