Windows7 and Ubuntu12.04 together

pete smout psmouty at live.com
Mon Aug 12 12:46:31 UTC 2013


On 12/08/13 13:39, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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
> 
Well pointed out I forgot to mention that!! Very important.

Pete





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