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d-d-2 (dandromb) wrote : Install fails with error: "Extraction failed with code: 2"

I am trying to install Ubuntu on my windows Vista PC but after about 30 minutes, I get an error message:

"Extraction failed with code: 2", with a pointer to the log file.
Please find below the relevant extract from wubi-12.04-rev266.log.
thank you
DanD

07-29 16:28 DEBUG TaskList: ### Running download...
07-29 16:28 DEBUG downloader: downloading http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz > C:\ubuntu\disks\ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz
07-29 16:28 DEBUG downloader: Download start filename=C:\ubuntu\disks\ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz, url=http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz, basename=ubuntu-12.04-wubi-amd64.tar.xz, length=512730488, text=None
07-29 17:18 DEBUG downloader: download finished (read 380523926 bytes)
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ### Finished download
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ## Finished get_diskimage
07-29 17:18 DEBUG TaskList: ## Running extract_diskimage...
07-29 17:19 ERROR TaskList: Extraction failed with code: 2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\lib\wubi\backends\common\tasklist.py", line 197, in __call__
  File "\lib\wubi\backends\win32\backend.py", line 450, in extract_diskimage
Exception: Extraction failed with code: 2
07-29 17:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Cancelling tasklist
07-29 17:19 DEBUG TaskList: # Finished tasklist