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Ubuntu Wubi installed won't boot from Windows Boot Manager

Asked by Orrin Zirbel

My Dell inspiron 1525 laptop runs Windows Vista Home Premium (Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 32-bit operating system). Ubuntu was added in December of 2009 and, until today, has started off a dual-boot menu.
On August 25, I went to Ubuntu and loaded a large number of system updates. The process seemed to go well until it stopped at a question about where to place Grub. I may not have given the correct answer (I told it to proceed) because now the Windows Boot Manager never gets me to Ubuntu. If I select "Ubuntu" in Windows Boot Manager, I get a brief set of messages and then the system takes me back to Windows Boot Manager. Fortunately, at this point I can select Windows and it operates normally.

The messages are:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No WUBILDER
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No wubildr
Try (hd0,2): NTFS5:
error unknown command 'loadfont'
error file not found

In my files I have the following:
c:\ubuntu\disks\boot\grub (folder is empty)
c:\ubuntu\disks\root.disk (modified 8/25/2010) 17,145,856Kb
c:\ubuntu\disks\swap.disk (modified 12/18/2009) 262,144Kb
c:\ubuntu\install\.fuse_hidden (modified 12/18/2009) 707,376Kb
c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr (modified 12/18/2009) 79Kb
c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.cfg (modified 12/18/2009) 2Kb
c:\ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr (modified 12/18/2009) 8Kb
c:\ubuntu.ico (modified 12/18/2009)
c:\uninstall-wubi.exe (modified 12/18/2009)

I am new to using Ubuntu, and would appreciate any help I could get to be able to boot normally as before.

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Orrin Zirbel (ozirbel8327) said : 		#1

I have removed Ubuntu from this machine and am running it as a Vista-only machine again.

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Best delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#2

I'm not using Wubi, and see a lot of question about boot problem with it. I can't help. If you want to check Ubuntu with any risk on your computer, the best solution is to install a virtualization software (like Virtual Box or VmWare), build a virtual machine with a virtual disk, and install Ubuntu on it. Except 3D, the loss in performance is small. Moreover, in the future if you choose to work with Ubuntu, you will know how to install Windows inside a virtual machine, avoiding dual boot (except for 3D games, which are not well managed by virtualization software).
If this answer is enough for you, could you, please, mark question "solved", avoiding other people to try to answer question.

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Orrin Zirbel (ozirbel8327) said : 		#3

@delance: Thank you, I will do that.