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The move from Win7 to Ubuntu 12.04 has been honestly awesome. But I've come into a snag because my Win7 inevitably broke.

I can still boot into Ubuntu even though Win7 is broken (won't boot, can't repair).

I'd like to Migrate Wubi to a real partition and forget about windows.

Presumably under normal conditions I would run the Ubuntu live CD, create a new partition then log back into my Wubi install and migrate using the script to the new partition. But I'm worried if I do that I'll break my current wubi set-up and be unable to migrate.

I have a small hard drive, only 75GB and unfortunately my backup drive recently died so can't migrate there first and transfer over either.

Does anybody have any suggestions to solve this?

Jorge Castro
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Robin Clark
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  • Cant find any good information here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/635/how-to-convert-wubi-install-into-regular-install ? – Bruno Pereira Oct 02 '12 at 19:51
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    Never, Never, Never, fiddle with the OS when your backup drive is broken. Wait and save for a new backup drive. – user68186 Oct 02 '12 at 20:49

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hmm how broke is windows, can you get to its run screen ? If so open the Disk Management console by typing diskmgmt.msc at an elevated command prompt in windows that will safely shrink windows without damage to wubi. I like using parted magic but downloading gparted in ubuntu live mode would work as well.

Than if all goes well u can completely move wubi into a real partion. Than boot the live cd again and delete the windows partion and make your home partion larger by eating the unallocated space

===== If windows does not boot try to take 5gb from windows partion in gparted or partedmagic than create the 2 partions one for the filesystem and the other for swap

user93328
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