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[other] How to add Windows 7 in GRUB bootloader

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I dont have windows 7 in my grub bootloader..and i selected UBUNTU as my default OS.Now i cant boot Windows 7.:mad::mad: Pls tell me how to add windows 7 in grub menu. I also tried to changing the 40_custom file but it is read only so i cant change. Help I am using UBUNTU 12.04 LTS (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 09/08/2012

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I have a Sony VAIO with Windows 8 preinstalled, and I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a new partition. When the PC boots Grub is display, and I can choose between Windows 8 (didn't worked at the beginning, had to change Grub settings) and Ubuntu.

Hi, I think you know the problem. I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 installed on my pc, and a bootloader screen that looks like this:

with the first entry selected as default. But I want Windows 7 to be selected as default.

I googled to change it, and I found this (I don't know if external links are illegal, sorry if so) I applied this solution, e.g.

How to Repair Grub 24 weeks 6 hours ago

Yesterday I installed ubuntu 12.04.1.

Note : its a dual boot system along windows 7

At first grub was appearing and i was able to start ubuntu but then i had to switch to windows but windows was not booting when i select windows 7 it jumps back to grub window. So i fix the Windows Boot Loader using repair from windows media and wolla windows started to boot but Ubuntu Grub gone.

I'm very sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find a relevant post that could help me.

Here's the problem:

Windows 7 seems to be able to boot from it's own HDD and bootloader, but then when trying to run it through grub or burg it goes back to post from the windows logo.

It also gets detected as Windows 8, and I haven't installed that ever.

Hi all.

I was wondering if anybody could offer me advice on a little dilemma I have?

I have a 500GB HDD and have partitioned it and have the following OS's installed as follows: 400 ish GB for Windows 7 64 Bit, 60GB for Ubuntu 11.10 and 20GB for Windows XP 32 Bit.

XP was the last OS I installed. This somehow wiped out the GRUB 2 Bootloader.

I installed windows 7 first and then Ubuntu, booted back into windows and used EasyBCD to use the Windows 7 bootloader for dual booting. So when the system is rebooted Windows bootloader comes up first and once you select Ubuntu then GRUB shows up.

I need to how to make GRUB the default bootloader instead of windows 7's.

Thank you

I did this very clever decision to set windows 7 bootloader to ubuntu. Now I cannot boot back to windows. If I try to boot via grub it shows the windows bootloader for half a second and goes back to grub. Also the safemode of windows ceased to work, so I cannot go back and change the settings. I am totally screwed here and would not want to install the OS (both of them) again...

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.

Grub problems on dual boot 30 weeks 5 days ago

I did this very clever decision to set windows 7 bootloader to ubuntu. and now i cannot boot back to windows if i try to boot via grub it flashes the windows bootloader for half a second and goes back to Grub, also the safemode of windows ceased to function, so i cannot go back and change the settings. i am totally screwed here and would not want to install the OS (both of them) again....