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Chethan S.
Asked: 2010-12-23 01:00:23 +0800 CST

No grub entry for Windows 7 after installing maverick

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A friend of mine had Windows 7 and Windows XP running in his Sony Vaio. I replaced Windows XP with Ubuntu 10.10. After that the laptop directly boots into Ubuntu. Even the grub menu does not appear during startup. I tried sudo update-grub, sudo update-burg but windows was not recognized.

How can I solve this issue?

10.10 grub2

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer
    • To restore the Windows 7 bootloader, you must first boot off your 7 installation DVD.
    • When you get to the Regional settings, select your Location/Keyboard setting then click next. On the next page you must click on Repair your computer.
    • On the next page, if it finds your Windows Vista/7 installation, make sure it is UNSELECTED before clicking next.Then click on Command prompt.

    • From there, type in the folowing,

      bootrec.exe /fixboot

      bootrec.exe /fixmbr

    • Now close the two windows and click Restart.

    Note:

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  2. Please read through the following link. Hope the 4 & 5 steps can help you.

    This is also a very helpful link.

    I think the same problem is being discussed in the following thread
    The guy who posted seemed to have got the same problem and has rectified it.

    Thanks,
    Sen

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  3. You should check your grub configuration to see whether the timeout option has been disabled or something.

    For old grub versions, see this link. For newer versions, see this link.

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