Wubi

Cannot run Wubi, receive message no disk in drive

Asked by Robin Hague

After downloading Wubi and trying to run it, I receive a pop-up message saying

 "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk ino drive\Device\Harddisk2\DR2"

 This pop-up will not go away, cannot close it even with Task Manager.
 I am running W7 64bit and want to install Ubuntu alongside (like a prog) as I do not want to go through all the Grub menus at boot.
Can you help please?

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Robin Hague (robin9269) said : 		#1

The no disk message has "pyrun.exe - No Disk" in the top border.
I have re booted windows several time to try again but no luck.
I have also done a system restore from a previous system image back up.

However, the very first time I tried Wubi, it ran all the way through until the end when it said there had been an error, and then simply closed.

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Best bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

The no disk error is likely due to some attached peripheral (printer, external drive, MMC reader, phone etc.). To kill it you need to kill process "pyrun.exe" from task manager.

If you had a problem even before when you installed - it's usually either a firewall issue (you need to allow pyrun.exe access so it's bittorrent downloader works) or if you created an ubuntu CD, it might be a bad burn on the CD. But there is really no way to know unless you post the log file. Open the %temp% directory (Start, enter "%temp") - then look for the logfile wubi-11.04-rev211.log (that's specific to 11.04 - if you're installing a different version it will be slightly different). You can post it to http://pastebin.ubuntu.com and return the address back here.

Finally, Wubi does not let you run Ubuntu "inside windows" - just the installer/uninstaller bit (wubi) runs in Windows. You still have to go through the grub menu (just it doesn't replace the windows bootloader as it does for a normal install, instead chaining to grub2 through a different process). If you want to run Ubuntu without rebooting you need to install it in a virtual machine like vmware or virtual box.

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Robin Hague (robin9269) said : 		#3

bcbc - Thanks for taking the trouble. I've worked out that it works with a blank disk in the dvd drive (it doesn't do anything but pyrun seems happy!)