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blackriven
June 1st, 2009, 03:53 PM
Having installed Windows 7 my Ubuntu partition is now inaccessible. I read somewhere in these forums (can't seem to find the tread at the moment) that restoring GRUB may be problematic with Windows 7. Is that true? If so, how do I go about restoring access to Ubuntu.

Also I would appreciate some walkthrough regarding restoration of GRUB.
Thanks in advance.

raymondh
June 1st, 2009, 04:17 PM
Hello BlackRiven,

Hope this helps

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows

Post back if you need assistance.

Regards,

coffeecat
June 1st, 2009, 04:28 PM
blackriven, of all the methods described in the link that raymondhensen posted, by far the easiest is to use SuperGrubDisk. However, the link to SGD from that page is not working at the moment. A working link to SGD is:


http://www.supergrubdisk.org

Follow the bit under 'as a standalone CD' in raymondhensen's link and you'll have grub restored in no time.

By the way...


I read somewhere in these forums (can't seem to find the tread at the moment) that restoring GRUB may be problematic with Windows 7. Is that true?


Not in the slightest. I'm posting from Windows 7 atm, on a machine on which I successfully restored grub after installing Windows 7. Windows 7 is no different in this respect from 2000, XP and Vista.

Good luck!

raymondh
June 1st, 2009, 04:32 PM
blackriven, of all the methods described in the link that raymondhensen posted, by far the easiest is to use SuperGrubDisk. However, the link to SGD from that page is not working at the moment. A working link to SGD is:


http://www.supergrubdisk.org

Follow the bit under 'as a standalone CD' in raymondhensen's link and you'll have grub restored in no time.

By the way...




Not in the slightest. I'm posting from Windows 7 atm, on a machine on which I successfully restored grub after installing Windows 7. Windows 7 is no different in this respect from 2000, XP and Vista.

Good luck!


+1 on supergrubdisk .... that and a disk of gparted are invaluable tools.

ditto on win 7 ... though I am about to uninstall it in a few moments ... but that is for another topic/thread :)

guppydas
March 28th, 2012, 03:18 PM
SuperGrub disk saved my day. For some reason I had to re-install Windows 7 after it behaved erratically. Before that it was working great. I had Grube taking care of booting between Ubuntu and Windows 7.

SuperGrub dis and GParted are a must to have.

:guitar: