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can't find ubuntu on computer start up

Asked by ahmed yasser

after i reinstalled win.7 i couldn't find ubuntu in the dual boot mode, so i went over to where i installed ubuntu and tried the uninstaller and told me that it's not installed correctly and asked me whether it's installed correctly or reinstall it using recommended settings, so i reinstalled it and nothing happened

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

If you boot to ubuntu liveCD and you run:

sudo fdisk -l

Do you see NTFS and Ext4 partitions?

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

Did you have anything on the wubi install you want recovered? If so, you need to backup the \ubuntu\disks\root.disk file (and home.disk if you created a separate one; usr.disk only if you installed on a fat32 file system).

If you just want to reinstall, first manually remove the oldd wubi install, and then try again. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#How_do_I_manually_uninstall_Wubi.3F

If you are still having difficulties - if wubi.exe doesn't appear to run, there may be a conflict with a different version of python. If you are having a problem, check the log file in the %temp% directory - it's called wubi-11.04-rev211.log (for release 11.04). See if there is an error listed. If it is empty - or no log - report back, otherwise you can post the logfile to http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/ and the pastebin address back here and I'll take a look.

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ahmed yasser (yasser-hahahaa) said : 		#3

@andrew-woodhead666 , i don't have a live CD i installed ubuntu from an iso image

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ahmed yasser (yasser-hahahaa) said : 		#4

@bcbc , um trying to uninstall now via the installer but it's not working, so i'm looking to alternate solutions right now

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#5

The uninstaller will fail if it doesn't find an entry in the bcd store etc.
so once you've done something like replace windows, you pretty much can just
delete the \ubuntu directory and the C:\wubildr file to remove the
remainder.

NOTE: before deleting \ubuntu you need to backup the .disk files in the
\ubuntu\disks directory if you have data from the old wubi you need to save.

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