Wubi

downloaded and it won't boot

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grub> what does this mean? why can't I use ubuntu? i'm about to just give up. I used wubi if that helps any.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Using wubi makes life a littl more taxing. There is a user on here who is great with wubi.

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bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#2

Hi, please can you clarify... did you have Ubuntu installed and working and then something happened, so that now every time you boot you just get a grub> prompt.

Or, did you get the grub> prompt the very first time you attempted to boot.

If it's the first then it may help to review this: http://ubuntu-with-wubi.blogspot.com/2011/08/missing-rootdisk.html
That link shows how to recover a root.disk (the virtual disk wubi uses) if there is NTFS corruption - which may be caused by a hard shutdown. But this only applies to users who had Ubuntu running.

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