Tuesday, May 16, 2017

dual boot - Grub not recognizing Windows 7 after installing ubuntu

I've spent the last two days trying to get grub to recognize my Windows 7 installation, to no avail.


The situation is as follows:



  • I wish to dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu on separate 120 gb SSDs

  • Windows 7 64-bit was installed first, on /dev/sda

  • Ubuntu 64-bit 14.04.1 was then installed on /dev/sdb


After installing Ubuntu, I found that I was then booting straight into Ubuntu. Ended up running boot-repair to try re-install grub, which then gave me the menu on startup, but with only Ubuntu as an option.


I can now no longer boot into my Windows 7 installation, even when booting directly via BIOS boot settings (I end up getting an extremely descriptive 'boot0: error') message.


boot-repair info link is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/8982363/


Any help would be extremely appreciated!


Thanks

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