[ubuntu-za] Windows 7 missing from grub?

[Alf Stockton]

 On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:30:10 -0500, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> 
 wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 08:11 AM, Alf Stockton wrote:
>>
>> Yesterday evening I bit the bullet and installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my
>> Thinkpad-T500 that already had Windows 7 installed and all went 
>> well,
>> including rebooting into both Linux and Windows 7. So I switched off 
>> and
>> went to bed.
>> This morning on booting grub does not appear to be able to find 
>> Windows 7?
>> If, under Ubuntu, I look in System->Administration->Disk Utility I 
>> can
>> see Windows 7 partition at /dev/sda2 clearly marked Windows7_OS and 
>> if I
>> go into Places->Windows7_OS I can see all the folders and files that 
>> are
>> needed.
>> I suspect that this means that I have not inadvertantly lost that
>> Windows7 partition.
>> The question remains how do I get grub to see Windows 7 again?
>
> What error are you getting when you try and boot Windows?
>
 On booting there is no option to boot Windows so I do not get as far as 
 getting an error message.

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 Alf Stockton www.stockton.co.za