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Boot failed; how to extract personal files from root.disk of wubi install

Asked by sparky

I have a partitioned hard drive on one partition I have XP and and I thought I put plain ubuntu 10.04 next, but it is a wubi install. Anyhow, the boot failed after normal usage (something with grub)

I am trying to extract my personal files using a live cd boot, from the root.disk file for backup and a fresh install. But I do not know how to open the file

Any help?

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#1

Either use ext2read - http://ext2read.blogspot.com/ - (it gives read only access from windows if you point it at the \ubuntu\disks\root.disk file), or boot an Ubuntu CD in live CD mode ('Try without installing'), mount the windows partition containing the root.disk and then loop mount the root.disk:

E.g. assuming the root.disk is on the second partition /dev/sda2...
sudo mkdir /media/win
sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/win
sudo mount -o loop /media/win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /mnt
nautilus /mnt

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