It seems that fat32 filesystem is not identified correctly in some cases

Please test http://wubi-installer.org/devel/minefield/Wubi-9.04-rev133.exe

Is it really possible to revert back to FAT from NTFS without loosing data?

r133 seems to fix the issue :)

I'm a Ubuntu newbie:
I'm using multi boot system.
C: Fat32 (win98) , G: NTFS (winXP) , D: Fat32 (data) , 3 partitions on 1 hard disk .
I installed wubi Ubuntu 8.1 on XP , though , I selected C: (Ubuntu is existing together with win98) ,
do you have any suggestion for me , sir ?

Method 1: Do I need to install Wubi 9.04 on XP first and reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 on C: Fat32 ?

Method 2: Do I need to convert D: from Fat32 to NTFS and directly install Ubuntu 9.04 on D: .

Which method is the best way ?

I would recommend uninstalling the previous version of wubi and then installing in an ntfs partition. It is also possible to upgrade a previous version directly from Ubuntu.

The problem is fixed , Wubi 9.04 can be installed properly & smoothly , thanks for your help !

Sorry for asking you so many questions.
Another problem occured , Nvidia card display / resolution problem ! (also occured in Wubi 8.10)
My display card is Nvidia FX5500 (128M) AGP x 4 ; after the installation of Wubi 9.04 , I reboot my machine ,
the highest resoluton is 800 x 600 , so I try to activate the driver Nividia-glx-96 / 173 , the highest resolution became 640 x 480 .

toshi, video resolution is not related to wubi use per se', for the video issues you should use the dedicated forum http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=334

The same problem here on the latest stable version of WUBI. I am getting¨

05-14 21:52 ERROR Virtualdisk: WriteFile() failed!
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05-14 21:52 ERROR Virtualdisk: WriteFile() failed!

Using XP SP3 on FAT32. Installing into drive D:

I hope a release will be available soon because all XP HOME users have to use FAT32 :-(

Wubi 9.04 would happen like this , how about Wubi 8.10 , I tried Wubi 8.10 , it seems to work on fs FAT32 , though , it also have problem during update. I think M$ windows treate FAT32 as a out-dated fs , the best way is to create a new NTFS partition on your HDD in order to solve this problem.

Lukas, can you please attach the wubi log? If it is too long only attach the top part including the first errors, you might want to delete the current one, and do a clean install

hey i have the same thing with fat32 and installing ubuntu 9.04
WriteFile() is only beginning, if you select smaller sized (4Gb) disk in wubi and install ubuntu, you`ll face new problem with root.disk and swap.disk files, ubuntu unable to mount them, it`s just hungs up....

as a solution i suggest to run in windows command line this: convert e: /fs:ntfs
it takes 15 minutes to convert disk to ntfs (data is saved)

I would appreciate some more feedback (possibly the log). Although converting the partition to ntfs will probably work, having the logs will help fixing the issue for other users as well

 Would be happy to provide the log. Please tell me the procedure/steps for generating the log.

Thanks Sai

There is a wubi log in the user temp folder (%temp%)

Wubi-r134.exe works fine. But I had already changed my drive from FAT 32 to NTFS and on this only I installed Ubuntu. Ubuntu installation was perfect with Wubi-r134 on the NTFS drive.

As regards the Wubi log in User temp folder (%temp%) please advise where this folder is, please explain in detail, I am a novice in ubuntu, I am just starting to learn ubuntu.

Thank you

Simply type %temp% in windows explorer, there is wubi*.log file in there

Please find the Wubi log as required by you. I did the complete
installation on 5/29/2009. Hope this helps.

Thanks
Venkatsai

Agostino Russo wrote:
> Simply type %temp% in windows explorer, there is wubi*.log file in there
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