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Wubi installation effects on Windows 7 Home Premium

Asked by Steven Balick

Yesterday, I installed Wubi/Ubuntu Desktop onto my Windows 7 box. The system is new, about 2 months old. I installed Wubi and Ubuntu with no problems. I successfully rebooted into Ubuntu and created a user account with an identical user name as an account I have in Windows. Ubuntu's Update Manager began running shortly thereafter and updated about 193 items - If I recall correctly. During this process I was configuring my dual monitors and the update process halted with no error message. The mouse responded to my actions, but I couldn't exit out of the Update window. The cancel/close button wouldn't respond. Not knowing any other alternative at the point (1am), I forced a system shutdown using the power button on the machine. I rebooted into Ubuntu and allowed the Updates to continue and complete.

Having been fully satisfied, and also determining the kernel version for another project I am working on, I moved to reboot into Windows. Rebooting was successful. I logged in on my desktop account and noticed that there weren't any of the desktop icons that I had previously. I attempted to create shortcuts and disable/enable the ones that I had, to no avail. Nothing has worked. I have one other user account in Windows, that of an Admin account. That one has retained the icons in the account. I have since uninstalled Wubi/Ubuntu hoping to clear the issue, again to no avail.

Was there something wrong that I did, is there some account interference between the two OS's, or is there some setting that was configured when Wubi installed?

Thanks.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

There is no account interfae between the 2 OSes in any way. Wubi just uses a disk image file in (crappy) NTFS, that is all. You may have damaged your NTFS with the sudden power off. I suggest you chkdsk your partition. Your issue is also with Windows, not Ubuntu so I suggest you post on a Windows forum.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

You should avoid hard shutdowns - especially with Wubi: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_to_reboot_cleanly_even_when_the_keyboard.2BAC8-mouse_are_frozen

Hard shutdowns can corrupt the virtual disk that Wubi installs use for Ubuntu. There are no known issues that would effect the problem you are describing (sounds like your windows user profile is corrupted) - I agree you should run chkdsk to make sure the ntfs file system is clean.

It's really a bad idea doing hard shutdowns on any OS. I've corrupted a user profile on windows XP doing that because I was impatient and it's a pain to fix (basically you have to create a new user profile)

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