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Wubi on a USB: Can I Keep Files and Programs?

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Let's say I install Wubi to a USB. Let's also say that I, while using my USB version of Ubuntu, saved a file.

If I ran that same USB of Wubi on a different PC, will I lose that file?

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answered 2 Years ago ardtry · Accepted Answer

The answer is yes and no. It depends. If you, for example, create three partitions on your flash USB drive like this:

Partition 1 with Live Ubuntu

Partition 2 for your Wubi installation (this partition will be overwritten each time you install a new Wubi)

Partition 3 to be set as home

In such case, if you set each time on every computer installation the same way, your home partition will be untouched.

However, I would recommend not to use Wubi, but an ordinary Ubuntu (or Xubuntu, or even Damn Small Linux) installation on the pendrive. I did the latter once and that worked really well. I've had three computers with Microsoft Windows on each hard drive. On micro-SD cards I had installed 3 Linux systems: Debian Lenny, and on one 8GB flash pendrive I've had my home partition with all my data projects and stuff.
When I needed Linux, I just plugged in the micro-SD card and my home partition pendrive before booting, and I would have had a fully functioning Linux distribution. I am sure you could do the same with Wubi.