2.7 Broke my Windows installation

[dave31]

Hi, I have installed your Ultimate 2.7 Ubuntu, and now my Windows 7 install will not boot

I select Windows loader from the GRUB menu, it begins the WIndows 7 animation loading screen, but just as it should load the welcome screen, it resets the laptop, I have tried a repair, and safe mode, and nothing will let me back into Windows

My partitions are shown below, but like I say, it begins to load windows, but part way through the boot, resets the entire laptop

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

[TheeMahn]

By looking at your partition table I do not see a showstopper. I do things slightly different then I personally would have done. All partition tables in my system are primary not extended. This should have no overall negative effect.

Have you tried Super Grub disk? How about "Windows repair"?

[razy60]

Hi, just me being daft but i dont see a boot flag next to the highlighted ntfs partition.

Raz

[TheeMahn]

Hi, just me being daft but i dont see a boot flag next to the highlighted ntfs partition.

Raz

Not questioning where his grub is MBR / grub handles setting it active as of grub 2. Do not quote me on this, can someone please confirm it is not as it was with grub 1.9*. It is BTW a pain in the rump to add windows to grub 2 in comparison (this is a fact and have done so myself), when things work as they should I should never have to.

One of the beautiful things in building O/S's I suppose is I get to see changes transpire. Does it mean I want to learn grubs commands? I have watched Plymouth change so many times I asked myself what is the command today. Google was my buddy. What happened to xsplash? I could drop a few choice words there. If quote we have a feature freeze what does that mean to you? It was there then, is it now? It does sometimes upset me what they do upstream. With no concern for their own policies.

Where does one drawl a line? How is your cursor, oh that is simply cosmetic, wow what an answer, but you will rip out xsplash is that not cosmetic? This is what grabs me their "ultimate" goal of 10 sec boot time is the entire answer. We are running *nix how often do you actually "need" to reboot. Priorities are not in order.

Sorry for spewing.

[dave31]

Hi, yea I tried a Windows repair, no I did not try Super GRUB disk,

I found that by deleting the Linux partition, that WIndows would boot again no problem, and then reinstalling Ubuntu, again it would kill windows...

My guess is that for some obscure reason, Linux partitioning is overlapping the windows partition and causing the reset on boot

My cure... all be it early days right now, was to create a 125Mb NTFS partition between Windows and Ubuntu to stop the overlap

So far things are working as they should, Windows and Ultimate 2.7 are living happily "Almost" side by side and both are booting from GRUB

I`ll update this thread if anything more occurs, Thanks for the replys, and thanks for a great OS release

[razy60]

One thing i noticed on 2.6 install and so far this has been the same in 2.7 on my laptop, was that instead of creating a linux partition prior to the install, i had to have only 1 partition on my drive that was all windows ntfs then when i installed 2.6/2.7 it would allow me to repartition the single drive to whatever size it was able too.
i.e 250GB ntfs(windows7) then becomes ?GB (windows7) ?GB (UE2.7).


Raz

[Admin-Amir]

Hello PPL.

Here is some help for you with the MS/U.E Grub issue on BOOT.
just follow the 2 option to fix you Grub issue please:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 ... m%20LiveCD