Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

[Babak Hashemian]

Dear Pete

I tried the tool, it brought back my Win 7 option in the grub menu but it couldn't repair my win 7 boot problem. It is somehow strange, when I tried to repair my windows boot problem via a bootable windows 7 USB flash, I recognized I have a corrupted windows, It even told me that it would repair it and when I read the details, they were exactly my problem and solution but it said that it can not write the necessary options on my partitions. I suspect whether grub is preventing it from writing on it. But thank you anyway, I wrote down the boot-repair url. If you think there are other ways to repair this please inform me. Thank you.

Babak




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 From: pete smout <psmouty at live.com>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together
 

On 10/08/13 15:06, Babak Hashemian 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 ha ve 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.
> 
> Babak Hashemian
> 
> 
Hi,

Boot Repair from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair/
Worked for me on numerous occasions hope it does for you as well!
Note It should repair both Win 7 & Linux and Grub and leave your system
booting normally


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