Wubi installed Ubuntu; Grub boots issue after windows disk check (Ubuntu 12)

Asked by CptCarl

Goodmorning,

I've got Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my laptop and this morning my Windows disc check started running (Didn't shut down properly, Windows right?) but now when i'm trying to switch to Ubuntu i'm getting a GRUB message which i don't understand at all (I'm a total Linux n00b) and i can't bypass it whatsoever.

Is there a way i can fix my Grub/boot/Ubuntu without harming my Windows and prefferably without harming Ubuntu?

Note: I installed Ubuntu via the windows installer. So i don't have a CD or anything.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What are the messages? Why did you not add them to your post?

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
#2

I couldn't screenshot it, haha! I found a pic on Google of what it is: http://members.iinet.net.au/~herman546/p15/fig2grub.gif (I can't remember my version. I'm assuming it's the latest since I've installed Ubuntu 2 weeks ago.)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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But why did you only say "I'm getting some Grub messages" but not actually give the messages (or a paraphrase of them)?

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
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Because i figured it was a rather basic window i guess. We could ramble about it for another hour or so; But i'd rather admit my mistake and search for an answer :-)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#5

In future please give as many details as you can. Have you chkdsk'd your NTFS partition?

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
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I believe the Windows checkdisk checks everything. So I'm assuming it did. Nonetheless I'm not really the ICT wizard here. Just not a fan of Windows when web-programming.

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
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Edit: I just noticed that my c:/ubuntu/disk/boot/grub folder (in Windows 7) is empty. I don't know if that helps? Oh, and to specify my previous answer: I did not cancel the chckdisk!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said :
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Please install Ubuntu in a separated partition (dual boot mode) not using Wubi... installing Ubuntu inside Windows cause trouble like this...

Issue on Windows partition will affect the Ubuntu installation...

I never installed Ubuntu using Wubi.

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
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Okay, but can i save what i have on my Ubuntu than? I've got one folder i don't really like to lose on my Ubuntu desktop :-)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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why do you not have a backup?

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CptCarl (tengwerda) said :
#11

Because it barely ran for 2 weeks :-p I don't backup daily/weekly, haha!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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If you boot to liveCD and then mount your NTFS partition, you can loop mount the wubi root.disk file and access your data.

I strongly advise you revise your backup strategy. It is clearly not appropriate.

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cyrus modaresi (cyrus-2) said :
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I'm having the exact same problem. Meaning my ubuntu 12.10 is installed under the WINDOWS 7. I did run a DISK CHECK (while operating in the WINDOWS env) on the drive that contains UBUNTU (WUBI). And then when I switch to UBUNTU at boot time, I only get the MINIMUM BASH GRUB command prompt. Below are the ChkDsk results from the WINDOWS:
Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode. (I believe that some important indexing have been removed). To solve this, I believe one has to be an UBUNTU Linux expert at the operating system level and someone who knows the details of the WUBI installations under the WINDOWS.

Checking file system on F:
Volume dismounted. All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.
Volume label is SDATA1.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
  3584 file records processed. File verification completed.
  0 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 0 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
  3676 index entries processed. Index verification completed.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
  3584 file SDs/SIDs processed. Cleaning up 31 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 31 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 31 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
  46 data files processed. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

 244182015 KB total disk space.
  14922492 KB in 1057 files.
       372 KB in 48 indexes.
     76991 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 229182160 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  61045503 total allocation units on disk.
  57295540 allocation units available on disk.

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