ubuntu mount fails after update to 14.4

What OS is the other one on your system?
Is your Ubuntu system a "wubi" installation inside Windows?
How did you initiate the update of your Ubuntu system?
Which Ubuntu version did you have before the attempted update?

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Sorry that I was long in getting back. The Holiday schedule has me running all over the place.

I have Windows 7 Home Premium on my machine.

I boot into either system at startup with no other means of moving between the two.

I initiated the update from within Ubuntu.

After checking back into my email archives, I found this information: Ubuntu 9.04 - Install/Live CD (PC)

Since I have the Ubuntu 14.4 CD and I didn't have any data within Ubuntu that I need to preserve, I would appreciate a tutorial that would guide me through the install within the existing partitions.

Thank you

Can you try the following:

insert the Ubuntu 14.04 DVD into your computer, reboot the system and instruct the BIOS to boot from the DVD.
When asked select "Try Ubuntu without installing".
When you have reached the Ubuntu desktop, open a terminal and issue the command

sudo fdisk -l

and copy/paste all output into this question document.

This should reveal the details about size and layout of your hard disk(s) and disk partitions.

Hi,
Thanks for helping with this.
Here's what I found:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total
1953525168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x6cc5c6c0

   Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System

/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400
7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda2
206848 1953521663 976657408
7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

Thanks again,
Alan Lilly

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> Can you try the following:
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> insert the Ubuntu 14.04 DVD into your computer, reboot the system and instruct the BIOS to boot from the DVD.
> When asked select "Try Ubuntu without installing".
> When you have reached the Ubuntu desktop, open a terminal and issue the command
>
> sudo fdisk -l
>
> and copy/paste all output into this question document.
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> This should reveal the details about size and layout of your hard
> disk(s) and disk partitions.
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Ok, this seems to be a Wubi installation. To confirm this, please boot into Windows and check whether you have:

1. C:\ubuntu and C:\wubildr* files/directories
2. In the Add/remove dialog of the Windows control panel and entry named "Ubuntu".

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