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intalled ubuntu 12.10 and now cannot boot win 7

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http://askubuntu.com – so this is my brothers pc and i finally convinced him to try out ubuntu and went about installing it... he did have windows 7 and xp installed (with 4 partitions, win7, documents partition, win xp and another partition which called itself extended partition. so ubuntu installed and then when i rebooted on grub it first showed ubuntu or "windows vista boot repair" (which was the original os when my bro got this, it came with a free upgrade to win 7). i cclicked on the vista option and it said insert win recovery disk. i ran BOOT REPAIR and all that did was remove the windows vista option to (HowTos)

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Hi

I'm having a problem getting grub to detect my XP partition.

Original configuration:-

Hard drive partitioned with primary partitions (Vista and Vista restore) and an extended partition for data did not want anything to do with Vista so I Installed XP in extended partition Vista boot manager offered Vista or XP All worked for years

Decided to remove Vista and dual boot with Ubuntu

Two (Vaio) laptops, Vista/Quantal on one, Windows 7/Quantal on the other, Quantal on both fully updated as of a few minutes ago. Both have Windows recovery partitions on sda1 and boot into Windows itself from sda2. (7 has the usual separate small boot partition on sda2).

Apart from Quantal, the grub menu on the Vista machine only has an entry for the recovery partition, not for Vista itself.

OK, I have read for days and have tried many different ways, including reinstalling xp, then ubuntu a second time.

After I finish my Ubuntu install, grub runs at boot like it is supposed to.

Only grub displays Ubuntu, Ubuntu repair, memtest, and Vista recovery.

I have installed XP over the Vista partition, leaving the recovery partition alone for now. Then installed Ubuntu side by side.

In my laptop I had Windows Vista. When Windows 8 Release Preview came, I installed it as dual boot. Now, I want to uninstall Win8 RP and install Ubuntu in its partition. I still want to keep Vista in its own partition. How can I do it? I have Vista and Win8 RP in separate partitions, and after Ubuntu installation, I want to have just Vista and Ubuntu in my boot menu. Please help

Earlier today i installed ubuntu 12.10 beta. Grub wasn't booting, but just going directly to my primary OS Windows 7. I assumed i had partitioned incorrectly, because partitioning isnt my strong suit. I used boot repair because it was well recomanded off a live usb. Afterwards, grub appeared, but i only had options for Ubuntu, Advanced Ubuntu Option, and my hidden windows 7 recovery partition.

So, I don't know what exactly how I managed to delete the MBR record on windows partition. But let me explain what I did next, I ran the ubuntu boot repair tool and now Windows is not even listed in my grub loader.

So I went and booted with windows cd and choose repair. Then I ran ubuntu boot repair again via live cd. Here is the log http://paste.ubuntu.com/1426181/. Still no luck.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1595217 for boot repair report ala Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (now running Ubuntu on DVD)

Wife's CPU (yup, I'm not in trouble yet as she doesn't know) is Vista with 10 gigs of pictures on it, and I wanted to wean her off Vista.

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.

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: