Windows partition will not boot after Linux installation.
I installed linux mint 13 on my laptop and now my windows partition won't boot. On the grub boot menu I choose Windows 7 and then it goes onto a black screen with a flashing ' _ ' and stays there.
I'm starting to wonder if grub's MBR has overwritten the boot record for the windows partition.
Quote:
MySatellite-C660 ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3ce82182
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 104859647 52428800 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 104859648 556798388 225969370+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 556799998 625141759 34170881 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 556800000 617328639 30264320 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 617330688 625141759 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
So here sda1 is my original windows partition which has the windows install and presumably the boot record for windows. It is still marked as the boot partition so I assume the MBR has been written there.
I have tried using a SUPERGRUB2 disk to boot into windows and this failed. I have tried using several boot repair tools in linux and have tried using the startup repair tool on the windows 7 disk.
Any ideas?