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Thread: Boot issue with 9.04 and Win7

  1. #1
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    Boot issue with 9.04 and Win7

    Probably a simple fix but heres what happened:

    I had Windows 7 and Vista dual booting. I wanted to replace the Vista partition with 9.04, so I moved any files I wanted over to Win7 and wiped the Vista partition. Only halfway through did I wonder what this would do to the bootloader.

    I restarted just to see and of course, no bootable OS found.

    I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 9.04 in the now empty partition, hoping I could fix it from Ubuntu. I tried using a recovery disc I found online, and it claimed to have found and fixed errors with Win7's MBR. Upon a restart, GRUB loads and starts Ubuntu right away.

    Can I:
    Add Win7 to GRUB?
    Remove GRUB and try the recovery disc again?

    Thanks ahead guys

  2. #2
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    Re: Boot issue with 9.04 and Win7

    Have you tried
    Code:
    update-grub
    from terminal?

    You can likely find a solution by searching using http://www.uboontu.com.

    Also look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

  3. #3
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    Re: Boot issue with 9.04 and Win7

    Yes the first thing to try would be running 'sudo update-grub'. If that does not work, take a look at #16 in the thread that 73ckn797 posted.

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