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alectheface
August 13th, 2013, 11:18 AM
Hi All,
OK, I have got myself in a bit of a mess im afraid. I have gone for a triple boot system. XP, Win7 and Ubuntu. Everything was OK but I shrank my XP partition to make more space for Win 7, but now I can't boot into Win7. I seem to have both WIN7 and Grub bootloaders on my computer, so please could I have a bit of help sorting out this mess!


Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d5362

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 81922047 40960992+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 81922048 332031999 125054976 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 332032000 390625279 29296640 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 390627326 625141759 117257217 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 390627328 406249471 7811072 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 406251520 625141759 109445120 b W95 FAT32



I am aware of the following partitions
sda1 = xp (32bit)
sda2 = win7(64 bit)
sda3 = ubuntu (64 bit)
sda6 = Files (Fat 32, for exchangine between OS)

also sda5 = linux swap space


I would really like to get win 7 booting properly, and then remove one of the bootloaders so I only have 1.
Thanks in advance, Alec

fantab
August 13th, 2013, 12:49 PM
Reinstalling Grub should solve the issue for you. Use BOOT-REPAIR (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair). Just do the 'Recommended Repair', which Boot-Repair suggest and you should be good.