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dbb632
March 17th, 2016, 03:21 PM
I tried to upgrade to wily werewolf and my computer froze. So I downloaded it onto a bootable flash drive and installed it that way. It gave me options to install again over the failed attempt. I chose that option thinking it would just upgrade over the last attempt without damaging windows 7. Now when I boot up it only gives me the option to boot to Ubuntu and not windows 7. There is no boot option listed. I tried to disable UEFI through boot options which only led to an HDD not found error. I then went into BIOS and changed it to legacy. Ubuntu still boots but windows 7 is not in the list of OS boots.
I'm not sure how to resolve this so if anyone has any ideas I would like to know
Edison_James
March 17th, 2016, 04:32 PM
A screen shot of your partition table would be helpful, to give us an idea of what may have happened.
dbb632
March 17th, 2016, 05:01 PM
A screen shot of your partition table would be helpful, to give us an idea of what may have happened.


Actually it was a simple issue after all. I simply opened a terminal and ran

sudo update-grub

That took care of the issue
Bucky Ball
March 17th, 2016, 05:03 PM
Good news. Please see the first link in my signature below and happy travels.
Edison_James
March 17th, 2016, 11:57 PM
Actually it was a simple issue after all. I simply opened a terminal and ran

sudo update-grub

That took care of the issue

Glad it worked out for you.:)
RobGoss
March 18th, 2016, 12:04 AM
Always good to see a happy ending
Bucky Ball
March 18th, 2016, 03:15 PM
Good news. Please see the first link in my signature below and happy travels.

Done.