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Having read various posts it seems clear that installing Wubi on a machine which already has safeboot installed with disk encryption is a non-starter at the moment - nor is repartitioning the disk it would seem.
However, as the C:
partion is encrypted - it has an NTFS formatted Q:
partition that is not encrypted and has about 4GB free - I was wondering if there was any way to install Wubi using that partition. Obviously, I still need a means of booting into it without stuffing my safeboot booting mechanism.
I'm thinking that this should be possible as the safeboot booting mechanism will get me to the boot choice options and thereafter all references in the boot.ini
entry for the Wubi installation should be to files on the non-encrypted NTFS partition and so it should be OK and not attempt any changes to my encrypted C:
partition (other than adding the extra entry to boot.ini
)?
installing linux to a thumbdrive sounds like a way more workable solution here. – Journeyman Geek – 2011-06-03T02:09:17.837