[ubuntu-za] Windows 7 missing from grub?

[frans]

have you tried to edit the grub menu on boot, maybe the win7 boot option 
got hidden somehow?

On 11/02/24 15:44 PM, Alf Stockton wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:30:10 -0500, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
> On booting there is no option to boot Windows so I do not get as far 
> as getting an error message.
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