Is wubi for Windows 8?

Posted by Mandeep Singh on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Mandeep Singh
Published on 2012-12-03T17:03:22Z Indexed on 2012/12/06 5:21 UTC
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My Dell laptop shipped with Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 12.10(64 bit) through wubi installer, the installer worked fine till the reboot demanding screen. But after the reboot, my laptop boots to a black screen with the problem stated:

" File: \ubuntu\winboot\wubildr.mbr Status: 0xc000007b Info: The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors. "

I checked for the specified path in my c drive(windows 8) and i found the file there. Now, whats the problem. Is it the compatibility of wubi with windows 8 or something else?? Could anyone help

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