Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

[Babak Hashemian]

Dear Colin,

I did that first of all. I copied almost everything on my win partition to my external HDD. I am not sure whether I should copy my other partitions . Thank you anyway.

Babak




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 From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together
 

On 10 August 2013 15:06, Babak Hashemian <cleverboby_bh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I have a VAIO laptop with Intel Core i5 CPU which had a Windows 7 bundled
> with it. For sometime, I had a Ubuntu 12.04 Lts on another partition because
> of my modeling works. 3 days ago, my friend connected his laptop HDD to my
> system as an external device (which had a bootable win 7 on one of its
> partitions). I currently have a GNU Grub menu to choose on startup between
> my OSs. It looks like my system tried to boot from his HDD instead of my own
> HDD (My boot prioraties might have been on external device !) and so my
> Windows 7 boot files have been corrupted and after 2 or 3 times power up,
> the Grub has omitted it from the list. I just have a windows recover boot on
> the list. I tried to repair my windows via a bootable windows installation,
> but it did not recognize my windows 7 on its partition. Because of thesis
> works and projects, I do not want to loose my windows, and more importantly
> i do not want to loose my Ubuntu. I fear if I try to recover my windows via
> recover media it may destroy my Ubuntu boot paths. Does anyone have an idea
> on what should I do ? How can I repair my system ? Do I have a chance to
> repair or bring back or install windows 7 without loosing my ubuntu ? I
> appreciate your helps, Thank you.

Before doing anything else make sure your backups are up to date.  You
should be able to access your Win partition from Ubuntu so you can
backup the Win stuff from Ubuntu if necessary.

Colin

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