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    Lightbulb dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    Hi,

    I have a lenovo thinkpad X230T that came with windows7 installed. Before wiping out the disk and doing a fresh linux installation I wanted to make a dual boot for a while.

    The problem is that I don't have any windows CDs to repair the MBR after installing grub because windows was preinstalled.

    Any suggestions on what to do?

    thank!

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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    Hi
    I did not need windows disks to install 12.04 as dual boot, but I did have to make some space as my W7 was using all 4 primary partitions.

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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    The problem is that I don't have any windows CDs to repair the MBR after installing grub because windows was preinstalled.
    You only need the Windows CDs if you are *removing* grub (e.g. deleting Ubuntu and going back to single boot Windows).

    Also, there may be a utility included in Windows to create a recovery CD.

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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    Also, there may be a utility included in Windows to create a recovery CD.
    This option is included with Windows, and it is possible with a USB also. I found many posts like the following. http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-re...tion-dvd-disc/
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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    Win7 has a feature, as part of the Backup option, to create and burn a Win7 Repair CD. Using that, you can not only repair startup problems, you can also restore the Windows MBR.
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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    You can also install EasyBCD on your Windows installation and use it to rewrite the MBR and add new entries to you boot menu:

    http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

    It's free for non-commercial use.

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    Re: dual boot windows ubuntu without windows CD

    Thanks for the advice. I couldn't burn a windows recovery CD (my laptop doesn't have a CD burner) so I gave up and now I am doing a fresh install.

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