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ubuntu installed inside windows

Asked by Ivan Retardovan

I have installed ubuntu inside windows and i had to reinstall winows. when I was done ubuntu remained intact. then I installed GPU driver on ubuntu and it does not work. i want to reinstall it but i can not delete it becose I installed new winows and it doesn't see it. theuninstall-wubi.exe does not work too... i have deleted the ubuntu folder but during boot i still get this:

windows 7
ubuntu

this ubuntu does not work
and when I install ubuntu again i get:

windows 7
ubuntu
ubuntu

both ubuntus are doing the same thing. how do i get rid of one?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If in Ubuntu you run:

sudo update-grub

What is output?

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#2

Generating grub.cfg ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda2
done

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Thats fine, you have 1 kernel and 1 windows.

Can you give a picture of your boot screen.

Thanks

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#4

how?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Camera of some kind is an obvious choice. You can the use imageshack or photobucket to host.

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#6

http://s1143.photobucket.com/albums/n638/MacanTrooper24/?action=view&current=IMAG0028.jpg

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#7

Download easyBCD and delete one of the Ubuntu entries from your boot manager. You can also use a command line tool from microsoft: bcdedit (look on support.microsoft.com for instructions )

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#8

Thanks bcbc, that solved my question.

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#9

Now i can't delete ubuntu at all.

C:\Windows\Sysnative\bcdedit.exe /delete
an error occurredwhile attemptingto delete the specified entry

what now?

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Best bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#10

Most likely you deleted the entry that's associated with the new install. Just follow the manual uninstall instructions in the wubi guide: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide (look in the Contents menu for section 4.2 How do I manually uninstall Wubi)

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Ivan Retardovan (itrubic-truba) said : 		#11

Thanks bcbc, that solved my question.