[ubuntu-za] Windows 7 missing from grub?

[Lee Sharp]

On 02/24/2011 08:11 AM, Alf Stockton wrote:
>
> Yesterday evening I bit the bullet and installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my
> Thinkpad-T500 that already had Windows 7 installed and all went well,
> including rebooting into both Linux and Windows 7. So I switched off and
> went to bed.
> This morning on booting grub does not appear to be able to find Windows 7?
> If, under Ubuntu, I look in System->Administration->Disk Utility I can
> see Windows 7 partition at /dev/sda2 clearly marked Windows7_OS and if I
> go into Places->Windows7_OS I can see all the folders and files that are
> needed.
> I suspect that this means that I have not inadvertantly lost that
> Windows7 partition.
> The question remains how do I get grub to see Windows 7 again?

What error are you getting when you try and boot Windows?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1312894

			Lee