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Thanks in advance for the help. I've learnt a little bit reading through for the last so many hours and have finally given up and have a question...

I installed 12.04 onto my HDD D: used it for a while and everything was great. Later I shrunk my D: so that I could make the unallocated space into a new partition to use...

unfortunately my Ubuntu now won't boot due to the error message below but please read on as I have some specifics that I would like help with...

"The os couldn't be loaded because the file \Ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr is missing or contains error

I have been to this page: Boot manager is showing \Ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr is missing or contains error and seen the duplicate and the link etc.

I would gladly uninstall and reinstall but I have some files on my ubuntu (on the root.disk as I've come to understand) that I need. Should have put them on my other partition in the first place I guess and I wouldn't have this problem right?

Ok so... WITHOUT BOOTING FROM A CD CAN I ACCESS THE FILES ON MY ROOT.DISK OR BETTER YET

     FIX THE BOOTING ISSUE?

reading the below link is the boot issue is because I changed the partition where the WUBI file was installed and therefore has a new UUID? (not sure what this or a UUID yet though sorry). I see the instructions but don't understand how to see the grub menu and need some easier instructions I guess. Not even sure how to get a terminal up as I can't boot my WUBI...

Wubi install no longer boots

THanks again for the help,

Dan

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  • Did your drive assignments change when you shrunk your drive? If the UUID changed then Ubuntu won't boot, but to get the *wubildr.mbr not found* then either the drive letter assignment changed or the file is no longer present. PS use [ext2read](http://askubuntu.com/a/272350/14916) to recover data from the `root.disk` – bcbc Jan 06 '14 at 22:55

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You should not have the shrinkage. You threw the boot file.

This is very dangerous for Operation Systems.

Take a look of this : Wubi Guide # How can I access the Wubi files from Windows

If it didn't worked search again and try other keywords google search | accessing wubi files from windows

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  • Hey thanks for the answer, I got rid of my windows in the end as I had some issues booting and now all is good though I lost some files... and now that I got rid of windows completely it was all so unnecessary... – Dan and his PC Jan 07 '14 at 19:23