Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/08/13 00:27, pete smout wrote:
> 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

Just be aware that Boot Repair produces the Ubuntu grub menu (white 
lettering on ghastly puke red) and, more importantly, it may 
rename/alter your normal /boot directory to /boot_br - and you will need 
to know this should you ever want to run grub-mkconfig -o 
/boot/grub/grub.cfg.

BC

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