Migrate 12.04 Wubi install to new partition with corrupted win7 install and small hard drive

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Published on 2012-10-02T19:42:44Z Indexed on 2012/10/02 21:51 UTC
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The move from Win7 to Ubuntu 12.04 has been honestly awesome. But I've come into a snag because my Win7 inevitably broke.

I can still boot into Ubuntu even though Win7 is broken (won't boot, can't repair).

I'd like to Migrate Wubi to a real partition and forget about windows.

Presumably under normal conditions I would run the Ubuntu live CD, create a new partition then log back into my Wubi install and migrate using the script to the new partition. But I'm worried if I do that I'll break my current wubi set-up and be unable to migrate.

I have a small hard drive, only 75GB and unfortunately my backup drive recently died so can't migrate there first and transfer over either.

Does anybody have any suggestions to solve this?

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