Not having used wubi, I can't comment other than that I've never had a problem managing or fixing the boot sector.

ya'll probably know the linux tools for fixing a boot sector better than I do.
To fix a windows boot sector just boot from the windows cd, drop to a command prompt and run "fixmbr"

I've rarely had to do that myself, and I've been around the block as far as dual booting and moving partitions around.  Actually now that I think of it, it might have been an earlier ubuntu distro that messed up my boot sector and I couldn't fix it with fixmbr.  However, I was able to fix it with the Fedora installer.  That was the worst scenario that I've experienced and it was fine other than the short lived panic.

-j

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:
 Lisa, I think Dan and Judd are describing a situation where they
*don't* use Wubi.

 to my knowledge, Wubi does not repartition the drive.

 -jmz

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
> Yes,
>
> There are quite a few similar experiences with Wubi failures on the Ubuntu
> forums.
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> For some reason it wouldn't repartition the drive on a Dell E1505 laptop. I
> used Acronis Disk Director and resized it manually. Then Intrepid (Ubuntu)
> installed without issue. Just pointing out that it doesn't always work from
> the live cd.
>
> Sincerely,
> Judd Pickell
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Dan Lund <situationalawareness@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Use the Live CD as the install media instead, that's my suggestion.
> It does give the option of resizing the partitions during the install.
> That's why I was questioning why even use a windows version installer.
>  Only reason I can think of is if you just don't want to burn a CD.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Lund
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> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 12:09 AM, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
>> Use a live CD to dd the boot sector to a file, then put it back if it
>> the install gets horked?
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