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How to boot into Windows 7 when grub is installed in the Windows partition?

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http://askubuntu.com – Original title: How can i solve (un)booting windows 7 on the same partition with grub? I've been researching for 2/3 days about this problem and I have came up empty. Basically, partition 1 is Windows 7 and partition 2 is Ubuntu 12.04. I told Ubuntu to install into partition 2 and to install grub on partition 1 and that works fine. But the problem now is that I can't boot to Windows 7. It just returns to the grub menu after I select it. From what I have researched, if I can edit grub to boot Windows 7 "mbr" or the bootloader \windows\system32\winload.exe (without using windows 7 repair dis (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 05/11/2012

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Iv been researching for 2/3 days about this problem and i have came up empty. Basically, partition 1 is windows 7 and partition 2 is ubuntu 12.04. I told ubuntu (when installing to partition 2) to install grub on partition 1, and that works fine.

Hi everyone! First of all, sorry for my English. I got this problem and I hope you can help me :)

I have a HP compaq 8200 Elite CMT PC with an i7 processor and 16GB of ram. There are two hardisks on the pc one of which is 500GB and the other one is 1TB. I have a licensed copy of windows 32 bit on the 500GB which I cannot touch and I need to install a 64 bit ubuntu on the 1TB partition.

Whenever I select Windows 7 under GRUB, it just hangs at a flashing underscore windows 7 is installed under my first primary partition, what should the GRUB section look like for it? I can't check what mine looked like because this happened:

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Hello, I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I can't get back into windows (no such device / file not found when trying to load windows boot loader from grub)

I have an SSD(sdb) and 2 TB HDD(sda).

I just installed ubuntu 12.04 using a different partition for the /boot (I don't know why exactly I did this, I remembered reading somewhere on the web about this). The thing is that after this operation, the grub is not showing at boot, so the computer is loaded directly into windows.

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I am currently dual booting Win7 and Ubunto. I created a new partition, on my c drive, to install windows 8 on (i did not want to do the upgrade). I inserted the windows 8 cd and restarted my computer. no such partition/ grub rescue is all that comes up now. i loaded ubuntu from disk and did boot-repair.

So my computer has the following partitions:

/dev/sda -- (I know this isn't a real partition, but more so the boot loader)

/dev/sda1 -- (Windows 7 Boot Loader)

/dev/sda3 -- (Windows 7)

/dev/sda4 -- (Data partition, NTFS)

that means i have /dev/sda2 as free space.

I do not want to change the MBR of the computer. I would like /dev/sda2 to contain GRUB AND Ubuntu.

Given a dual partition of Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 - both 64 bit operating systems and a working version of GRUB: I need to be reminded of what will happen upon reinstallation of Windows 7 on the Windows partition in terms of GRUB.

Will GRUB be wiped?

I am concerned about this.