Wubi Download For Windows 7
Thomasine Fleeger
Actually, there is a project in the works to allow you to use wubi with uefi bios PCs and I just used it on a brand new HP spectre x360 with windows 10 home to install ubuntu 16.10. It worked perfectly after I disabled secure boot in BIOS.
Wubi is the Windows Ubuntu Installer. Wubi installs Ubuntu inside a file within a windows partition, and thus it does not require CD burning or dedicated partitions, yet the installation is a dual boot setup identical to a normal installation.
followed this to the letter but I cant get it to work. I had it up and running on my partners netbook which has improved the speed no end, very impressed. My emachine e525 is another matter. I get a black screen after the Ubuntu splash screen. I have tried the suggested fn and dim the brightness tweak which worked initially but the mouse did not work. I would dearly love to be able to throw windows away but do not want to have to buy another laptop. I have upgraded to ssd and not sure whether this could be the problem
In my Windows 7 system, I want to install 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04.5 or Ubuntu-Mate 14.04 as a native windows application, but a full length dual-boot system. Earlier it was possible through Wubi Installer and I've used that with 32-bit Linux 14.04.1 LTS. But with my current installation requirement it is not available anymore.
I haven't ever used a different operating system other than windows before and I decided to give Ubuntu a try, so 'Wubi' the windows installer seemed perfect for an easy install. I created a 50gb partrition of my hard drive then ran wubi. All seemed to go well, I selected the partrition in the application and entered a username and password, then the app did its stuff and asked me to reboot. I clicked "Reboot Now".
Now this is where my problem is, when my computer loaded up I never got the screen that I was told I would get by the installation instructions which would allow me to choose which OS to boot my computer with, but instead I got an error message saying "Error: No such Device: " and then below it, "grub recover>".
I had absolutely no idea what to do at this point so I restarted my computer and attempted to boot from my windows hard disk again using the Miltiboot selection menu which appears when I press F12. I then saw exactly the same error as I had the first time.
So then I learned how to put ubuntu onto a LiveUSB and run it from there, which got to the purple screen with the loading dots and then all the graphics completely broke and the PC froze.
So I then moved onto the third method of installing Ubuntu - using a CD. This gave exactly the same results as the Live USB. Having had all this fail I used one of my other computers to create a windows recovery disk and this allowed me to perform a system restore on my near-broken computer, but when I boot it I still get the "grub rescue>" error.
So my windows distribution is Unbootable & Ubuntu appears not to run on my computer, brilliant. I tried booting a different OS (BackTrack 5) using a live USB. This runs perfectly with no errors but is not suitable to fix my problems, but prooved that it is wubi that messed everything up.
I am now completely out of ideas and to be honest, don't really care about Ubuntu after all this, I would just like to be able to boot my windows installation and carry on as notmal. I know I definitely should have backed up all the data but it is quite a lot of stuff (almost 1tb) and I'm 14 so can't afford any good external hard drives to back things up onto. Sorry for this massive wall of text but it did say "Include as much detail as possible".
Thanks in advance...
-Fydrenak
P.S The laptop spec is 8gb of Ram and a core i7 Q @ 1.6ghz. Can't get more info because I can't load an OS except Backtrack 5R2 which I have no idea how to use.
My thanks for your quick reply! Unfortunately the laptop came with windows 7 pre-installed and I got no disks or anything with it so I have no instalation media to use for that. And I have no idea how to do anything like installing to the partrition that I made without a working OS. Is there a way to do this?
I'd recommend creating a bug report. There've been a few reports that the 'one-time' boot for Wubi doesn't get reset. If this is really happening (nothing conclusively shown yet) then this is likely a Windows bug (it's the Windows boot manager) that controls this and is supposed to reset following the first Ubuntu boot.
However, this one-time boot is not necessary for Wubi, so even though it's technically a windows bug (assuming that's what happened) it would be better to stop doing this in wubi if it saves people from your misery. (And if you look on ubuntuforums.org there's a case very similar to yours =1996785 )
I'd recommend following up with the developers - and the only way to do this is to file a bug report and or contact them through the IRC in #ubuntu-installer channel. This wubi answers section is not well supported (I used to monitor it, but won't be in the future).
You can get a Win7 repair CD from a running Win7 computer (maybe a friend's or in the store) or download an ISO from the net for $10 and burn it to a CD. This should allow you to reinstall the windows bootloader from a repair prompt:
bootrec /fixmbr
After wubi sets up your computer you will reboot. Watch for the boot menuwhile your computer starts up. You will need to select "Kubuntu" from theboot menu using your keyboard arrows to actually get into Linux. The firstboot, Kubuntu will finish installing itself then you will need to reboot(into Kubuntu) again.
The image is a bootable Linux distribution. If you want to use the programs on a windows box or Mac then you just copy the installer on to the box and install as usual. You may find the osgeo4w installer a better option.
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