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XP Explorer error
Jun 23rd
I had this problem bugging me for days. Whenever I tried opening my movies folder which had about 150 movies, I got a Windows Explorer error hence restarting explorer.exe. First I tried deleting old movies assuming the folder is probably overloaded beyond Windows limits. I was wrong nothing changed, now I started using the taskbar’s desktop toolbar for navigation. But found some problems with that. This was unbearable, I would have reinstalled Windows to rectify this. I had to do something.
9 Jaunty Jackalope adventures + LVPM
Apr 28th
Completed my Ubuntu 9.04 copy download early in the morning, took a huge 6 hrs to complete due to no indian mirror. My DVD drive stopped working. Other than virtual disk (Daemon tools 
) I had no other way to install it through WUBI. First new thing i noticed was the new loading bar with animated grungy texture stripes. Then the new login screen.
As everyone knows Windows rots with time and it was time to discard my copy now. The part I was worried about was loss of Ubuntu installation, since I installed it using Wubi inside windows. It was then I stumbled (literally) over a way to upgrade the virtual wubi installation to a true ext3 independent partition.
“The Loopmounted Virtual Partition Manager allows users to upgrade their existing Wubi or Lubi installation to a standard Ubuntu system by transferring all data, settings, and applications from the original install to a dedicated partition. The advantages of upgrading using LVPM are better disk performance and reliability, and the ability to replace the original operating system with Ubuntu.” I couldn’t resist trying.
step1: Installed the pre boot partion tool for linux.
step2: restarted, selected partion tool from the boot menu, and resized an NTFS partion by cutting out a 10Gb ext3 partition.
step3: restarted to wubi installation of Ubuntu, downloaded and installed LVPM
step4: Started LVPM and selected trnsfer>>SDA(number) of your ext3 partition.
step5: Watch the show, reboot
the tutorial is well explained here
You do it all right and get an error17 or error15 during the boot. I guess they forgot to mention the menu.lst changing part.
EDITING MENU.LST
to change it go to Wubi installation again. Now perform a test by downloading this script to desktop and copy paste this code to the terminal:
sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh
this will produce results.txt in the desktop, now suppose you installed in SDA9 then note down the bold code from results.txt like this:
/dev/sda9: UUID=”09b8370d-d20e-45c1-8951-dfb906bb0e4a” TYPE=”ext3″
now to open the menu.lst and grant permission to change do this
sudo mkdir /media/sda9 sudo mount /dev/sda9 /media/sda9 gksudo gedit /media/sda9/boot/grub/menu.lst
now Change
# groot=()/ubuntu/disks
to
# groot=the number you noted in the above step
change all three occurrences of
root ()/ubuntu/disks
to
uuid the number you noted in the above step
Save the file and reboot. Hopefully you will now be able to boot into Ubuntu.
