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There’s a tool called LVPM which could do the move, but there are sometimes problems with it. So I recommend to use a faster and safer way to do it - with the wubi-move-to-partition script:

1. Boot into your Wubi installation.
2. Open a shell and do a:
   wget "https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wubi-move-to-partition"
3. Install and run gparted:
   sudo apt-get install gparted
sudo gparted
4. Now create a swap partition (1x or better 2x the size of your memory) and an ext3 partition for your new ubuntu partition.
5. Back in the shell, find out how the new partitions are called with:
   sudo fdisk -l
6. Now start the move:
   sudo sh wubi-move-to-partition /dev/sdx1 /dev/sdx2
   (where /dev/sdx1 is your new ubuntu partition and /dev/sdx2 is the new swap partition you’ve just created with gparted)
7. After the successful move, simply reboot your system. You should be able to boot into your new native ubuntu system.

If there are no problems with your new system, you might want to boot into windows to uninstall your wubi installation (Start Menu/Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs). It’s not needed any longer.
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Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu on August 2nd, 2008