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My Kubuntu install went haywire when my laptop lost power while trying to update the graphics card. It no longer boots. So I need to copy a few of my linux files from within Vista now so I can at least access them. I have installed EXT2 IFS driver which will supposedly work but when I click on the ubuntu folder it still doesn't show the actual files at all. I also installed DiskInternal Linux Reader but when I click on a drive it states that it cannot open it.

Anyone know how to get this working?

EDIT: I installed Kubuntu within Windows so it's not on a separate partition of its own. It seems that might be the issue...
 
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Seeing as it doesn't seem possible because the install isn't on its own partition, is there any way for me to boot into Kubuntu somehow (as in like DOS with Windows) and copy the files, without actually loading Kubuntu itself?
 
DJK said:
Seeing as it doesn't seem possible because the install isn't on its own partition, is there any way for me to boot into Kubuntu somehow (as in like DOS with Windows) and copy the files, without actually loading Kubuntu itself?
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Have you tried using a Live CD ?
 
web said:
Have you tried using a Live CD ?
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I'm a little technically inept so I'm not sure what a live CD. I'm assuming it's like a Windows boot disk? I downloaded Kubuntu so don't have the disc and never bothered creating a boot disk - thought didn't cross my mind...:o
 
Well were is the image you downloaded ? Is it still on your windows machine cause I am sure the same image you used to install that wubi thing is also a Live CD, although not been a kubuntu user I might be COMPLETELY wrong :D
 
web said:
Well were is the image you downloaded ? Is it still on your windows machine cause I am sure the same image you used to install that wubi thing is also a Live CD, although not been a kubuntu user I might be COMPLETELY wrong :D
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I'll give that a try - thanks web...
 
Awesome - thanks guys. Well I booted from the Kubuntu disc and ran it in recovery mode. Repaired the broken packages and now it works perfectly. Just finished backing up the files I needed and going to install Ubuntu now instead...
 
I have no idea if anything will work, unless you can install Kubuntu from scratch, tell it not to format the current installation and only reinstall all the system files (reinstall Kubuntu in the exact same way you did the first one), this way your /home will be left alone and the files should be intact. Just make a backup of the wubi "partition" or file, just in case.

Usually in a VM environment the allocated space is recorded as a single file, so the 30Gb "partition" you use for the VM (and this wubi installation is a VM environment) is in matter of fact recorded by the hosting OS as a single 30Gb file, hence the normal file system recovery or search programs will not work.
 
Well now my next issue is that I cannot uninstall Kubuntu. I have tried from the "Uninstall Kubuntu" icon in the folder and from Windows Control Panel yet neither actually do anything. Is there an app that can remove it completely?
 
It's still a wubi install. Yet wubi won't load. Clicking on wubi does nothing and none of the uninstall methods do anything either. I'm contemplating just deleting the entire ubuntu folder instead but not sure then if it will come up with an option to boot into it still when I start up thereafter. Can I remove that manually?
 
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I have never used Wubi, but seeing it is based on VM, if you delete the Ubuntu folder your entire Ubunut installation will be wiped, I'm not sure though where the wubi run-time files are stored, and it will be shocking if it is installed in the same folder.

You have nothing to loose by deleting the folder, if Wubi doesn't want to load after that, then just reinstall, it's not like you are loosing anything?
 
Yip - I just deleted the entire folder and there are no hassles. It does still ask if I want to boot into Vista or Kubuntu but that's not a big deal...
 
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