[ubuntu-za] Windows 7 missing from grub?

[Kevin Alborough]

Dear Alf

You need to override the grub loader file. Can be done by getting back into
Windows (recovery disk) and then downloading and installing EasyBCD 2.0.2
from Neosmart Technologies.

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On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Alf Stockton <alf at stockton.co.za> 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?
>
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> Alf Stockton www.stockton.co.za
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