I had installed Ubuntu 9.10 /Windows 7 dual boot with Wubi. I had no issues for about 9 months, and then after having to do a force reboot after ubuntu got hunng, and never goes past boot-up.

On boot up, and selecting ubuntu, I get this error message:

One or more of the mounts listed in /etc/fstab cannot yet be mounted:
/: waiting for /dev/loop0
/tmp: waiting for (null)
Press ESC to enter a recovery shell


When I enter the recovery shell, I get this error message:
General error mounting filesystem
A maintainance shell will be started


The maintenace shell does start- and I am able to access files. However, X-server does not work, so gedit, and similar applications does not work. I have done chkdsk on Windows, and this didnt solve nmy problem. From what I have been reading online,I have seen quite a few posts advising against wubi ubuntu installation, and generally to the effect that 'do a clean install'
I found that the person on this thread has faced an identical issue, but he had to do a re-install
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1051277.html

Can I make my ubuntu box work right, as it was before? :-)