Wubi installer vs live CD

[Colin Law]

On 4 July 2012 09:41, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Tim Frost wrote:
>> - wubi lets you run windows and fire up Ubuntu as a windows app
>> - installation from a CD means you have to reboot every time you want
>> to switch OS
>
> Not exactly (unless things have changed recently). With Wubi you install
> Ubuntu on the Windows partition and you start it via the Windows boot
> loader. However it is not run as a Windows application, it is merely
> another way of a dual boot system (Windows boot loader instead of GRUB).
> IMHO there is only one problem with Wubi. The Ubuntu installation is on
> a virtual partition, i.e. a big file on your Windows partition. If you
> mess up your Windows partition (e.g. due to a virus) and you reinstall
> Windows, you automatically loose your entire Ubuntu installation.

The particular issue I had was that I had a Windows crash and then my
wubi system would no longer boot.  I assume it had corrupted the file
somehow.

Colin