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biffta
October 2nd, 2013, 11:31 AM
I was hoping a kind person might be able to take a look at the following output from boot-repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair) and tell me why my Windows 7 partition fails to boot

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6183235/

Many Thanks!

oldfred
October 2nd, 2013, 02:30 PM
You installed grub to the Windows PBR - partition boot sector. Windows has essential boot code in the PBR.

Fix for most, a few have other issues, better than windows fix in many cases as it also fixes other parameters:
This has instructions on using testdisk to repair the install of grub to the boot sector for windows from Ubuntu or Linux LiveCD.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/bootinfoscript/index.php?title=Boot_Problems:Boot_Sector
You want to get to this screen:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step#NTFS_Boot_sector_recovery

OR:

[HowTo] Repair the bootsector of a Windows partition - YannBuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootSectorFix
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1926510

biffta
October 2nd, 2013, 05:48 PM
If the sixth screen did not have a "BackupBS" tab, it usually means that the original and backup boot sector are identical, and you are probably suffering from a different problem.

Dam. Are there any other suggestions? I don't have a Windows CD to repair with.

oldfred
October 2nd, 2013, 07:13 PM
If you still have grub in PBR, even a Windows repairCD will not fix it as it will not see it as a Windows NTFS partition. If backup not valid use the rebuild BS to create a new NTFS Boot Sector.
At the very least you have to create the NTFS PBR with testdisk. But that is a XP type PBR, and you will need a Windows repairCD or flash drive to convert from XP type (ntldr) to Vista/7/8 type that uses bootmgr. PBR calls out boot file to use based on install.
Chkdsk should fix it and some third partition Windows repair tools may run chkdsk. You cannot run chkdsk from Linux.

Third party chkdsk tools
Also has chkdsk and some other Windows repairs in free version:
http://www.partitionwizard.com/features.html
May be able to run chkdsk from Hiren's boot CD. (mini xp.)
Hiren's Boot CD, and do a chkdsk on the XP

EASEUS Partition Master
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
Partition Wizard
http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/partition-fix.html

RichardET
October 2nd, 2013, 07:19 PM
I like to keep everything simple - buy the Windows Restore disk and start over.