Boot Problem

[FullyLoadedMan]

Hey guys, Long time no post.

OK here is my problem. I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 to try it out. It installed fine onto my GB HDD, did the restart went into GRUB, no win 7 entry. Loaded up Ubuntu and checked to see if the Win 7 HDD was working, it was. Popped in my Win 7 disk and went into recovery options, the dialog box listing the installs came up, nothing in it. Went through and did a startup repair, didn't work.

I thouht it might be an issue to do with the boot order of the HDD's, went into bios and changed my Win 7 HDD to boot first, let it start up again and it come up with
BOOTMGR MISSING CTRL+ALT+DEL TO RESTART.

Put my recovery disk back in and tried startup repair again, still couldn't find the Win7 install.

Its starting to bother me now.

Please Help

 

[iphone]

try the repair process around 5 times until successfull! the problem is windows startup repair fixes one thing at a time and there are 3 things to fix in your case (i have done the same thing sometime ago)

 

[FullyLoadedMan]

ok, tried that. Did the startup repair like 7 times, still no luck.

I have now physicaly removed the Ubuntu disk. Will try startup repair with only the Win 7 disk in.

 

[iphone]

also try this in the command prompt window (in the advanced repair options)

Diskpart
list disk
select disk [replace this with your number of the disk (HDD) where windows 7 is installed on]
list partition
select partition [replace this with your number of the partition where windows 7 is installed on]
active
exit
reboot

Then restart and if it still doesnt work do the repair option like around 5 times again! if that doesnt work i cant help any further

 

[FullyLoadedMan]

Thanks for your help, i did the startup repair with only the win 7 disk in, it found the install and repaired the boot files.

All good now.

 

[iphone]

yay!

 

[FullyLoadedMan]

Mods, can you lock the thread please. Problem solved.