I'm the one who's trying to recover my data in /home from a broken Wubi install.
Followed directions from here and elsewhere about mounting the drive where Wubi
is installed and recovering the files from there, but it never shows up under
places. This is about the third attempt I've made, having booted up a live CD
and then rebooted when it doesn't work. I first mounted sda2 because I think
that's where it is. When I do an fdisk -l, all it finds is my SD card, though.

So anyway, I first mounted sda2 and when that didn't work, I tried sda1.
Earlier, I also tried sdb1, but that turns out to be my SD card.

Any ideas why this isn't working or what to try next? I tried this in Puppy,
too, but it didn't work there, either, so I went to a standard install disk.
That means I can't pop the CD/DVD out to copy /home over (it's 20-25 GB, don't
remember which) so even if I can find and mount it, I can't copy it to my 16gb
SD card, and now I can't copy it to a DVD since the install CD has to stay in.

So here's my next idea... What if I boot into Windows, where I have /home and
/root saved to the desktop, and zip them, and THEN see if they'll fit on the SD
card? I think I'm going to try that while I wait for answers to this.

I have too much important data to lose, so I really want to recover it. Is
there a way to reach the /home and /root on my Windows desktop?

To run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo ".
See "man sudo_root" for details.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /win
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /win
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /vdisk
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o loop /win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /vdisk
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /win
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o loop /win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk /vdisk
/win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk: No such file or directory
mount: according to mtab /win/ubuntu/disks/root.disk is already mounted on
/vdisk as loop
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o loop /win/ubuntu/disks/home.disk /vdisk
/win/ubuntu/disks/home.disk: No such file or directory
mount: according to mtab /win/ubuntu/disks/home.disk is already mounted on
/vdisk as loop
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /win
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda2 is already mounted on /win

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$