Dual Boot Vista Ubuntu No Boot Live CD OK

[sredmail]

Hi,

I have a Ubuntu install.

No access to Vista Repair Disks

This is a old Laptop that I want to donate working.

It won't boot (used too) after Ubuntu update.

Has Dual Vista Ubuntu Boot config.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6574569/

[bashiergui]

If you want to donate it why would you try to repair Ubuntu? I would remove the broken Ubuntu installation and put Vista on the whole drive. Or do a fresh install of Ubuntu over the whole drive.

[sredmail]

If you want to donate it why would you try to repair Ubuntu? I would remove the broken Ubuntu installation and put Vista on the whole drive. Or do a fresh install of Ubuntu over the whole drive.

This is being donated to Friends who are unable to afford paying for a new or used laptop in another Country in Central America.

1. They have kids 7 & 9 years old that play kids (same as at their friends house) games specific to windows so it still needs to be Dual Boot.

2. The Parents will use Linux Open Office for their needs, one of them is taking course at the local College.

Thanks for your help.

[oldfred]

Script is showing grub installed to the PBR - partition boot sector of your recovery partition. You almost never install grub to a partition and never to a NTFS partition


sda1: _________________________________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Grub2 (v1.97-1.98)
Boot sector info: Grub2 (v1.97-1.98) is installed in the boot sector of
sda1 and looks at sector 410707426 of the same hard
drive for core.img, but core.img can not be found at
this location. No errors found in the Boot Parameter
Block.


This should fix recovery. It looks like a vendor recovery not a Windows recovery. That is it restores system. But the Install of Ubuntu may then be erased.
Fix for most, a few have other issues, better than windows fix in many cases as it also fixes other parameters:
If win7 use small 'system reserved' NTFS partition instead of the partition where windows was installed for win7
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

But script is not mounting your sda2. Often that is either hibernation or it needs chkdsk. You have to run chkdsk from a Windows repairCD or flash drive or if f8 gets you to a Windows. Often grub boot of Windows is too fast for f8, some do try many times at the same instant of hitting key to boot Windows in grub menu. But you do not currently have an entry for Windows in sda2 as partition cannot be mounted to see the install.

It looks like you told Boot-Repair to install grub to sdb, or the flash drive. That then will only work to boot install in your hard drive on sda. Flash drive would have to be created again as it does not use grub to boot, but syslinux, a Windows type boot loader.