Yes,

There are quite a few similar experiences with Wubi failures on the Ubuntu forums.

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Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:19:47 -0700
From: pickell@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Wubi

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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