Really need help. Please read lol.

[walshy155]

I installed BackTrack5, when installing I could'nt boot into Windows 7 after, and then the whole partition of BT5 deleted, and I don't get it, W7 was on a different HDD, then I installed Ubuntu 9.10 from the disk, and now the menu which you select OS's when I click on W7 it says device not found.

I had to install 10.10 over the corrupted/messe'd up BT5 partition, because it said something about grub rescue and it was messed up.

Is there any way I can restore Windows 7, it's killing me

Thanks.

[yancek]

Is this a Desktop computer or a laptop?
Exactly how many hard drives do you have?
If I understand your post, you now have windows 7 (which you cannot boot) and Ubuntu 10.10 which you can boot, is that correct? You state you installed Ubuntu 9.10 and later say Ubuntu 10.10??

If you are able to boot Ubuntu, click the Applications tab at the upper left of the Desktop and move the mouse down and look for terminal, click on terminal to open that window. Then get your drve/partition information to post here to get help by issuing the following command: sudo fdisk -l(that's a Lower Case Letter L, not a number one). You should be prompted for your user password.

Was windows 7 pre-installed on the computer?
While you are in Ubuntu terminal type: gksu natuilus to open the file manager (you may be prompted for your user password again) and navigate to the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and post the contents of this file.

With the above information, someone should then be able to tell you if you still have your windows partitions, where they are and how to make an entry for Grub to boot windows 7.

[walshy155]

Is this a Desktop computer or a laptop?
Exactly how many hard drives do you have?
If I understand your post, you now have windows 7 (which you cannot boot) and Ubuntu 10.10 which you can boot, is that correct? You state you installed Ubuntu 9.10 and later say Ubuntu 10.10??

If you are able to boot Ubuntu, click the Applications tab at the upper left of the Desktop and move the mouse down and look for terminal, click on terminal to open that window. Then get your drve/partition information to post here to get help by issuing the following command: sudo fdisk -l(that's a Lower Case Letter L, not a number one). You should be prompted for your user password.

Was windows 7 pre-installed on the computer?
While you are in Ubuntu terminal type: gksu natuilus to open the file manager (you may be prompted for your user password again) and navigate to the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and post the contents of this file.

With the above information, someone should then be able to tell you if you still have your windows partitions, where they are and how to make an entry for Grub to boot windows 7.

It's a desktop, and I installed W7 ultamate.

I installed 9.10 sorry.

I have to manually write this, and English isn't my first language, so if there are any mistakes, sorry.

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1GB , 320072933376bytes
255Heads, 63Sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280bytes
Disk Identifier: 0xd53fcee4

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sda1 * 1306 38913 302081737 7 HPFS/NTFS

Text won't allign to Device, Boot, Start etc.

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb/! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT, Use GNU Parted.


Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0GB, 6001164880 bytes
225heads, 63 sectors/tracks, 7296 cylinders
Units = cynliders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk Identifier = 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sdb1 (Nothing here, me saying this) 1 7296 58605119+ ee GPT

Text won't allign to Device, Boot, Start etc.









"Type: gksu natulius" - Won't do anything, but doesn't say invalid comman, etc.


Thanks, hopefully, I have not lost my important files/folders in Win7.

[jbol]

I had a situation recently where I could not boot windows (turned out to be a hardware problem that was easy to fix) and I mounted the windows partition in my Suse linux. From there I could copy over all the files I was worried about losing - I can always reinstall windows and my apps.
basic steps were (need to be root level)
mkdir win7 (or whatever you like to call the directory)
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 win7
cd win7
ls (to see if your directories are there)
from there you can use cp -r to copy files to wherever you like

it worries me that grub did not find your win7 when you installed Ubuntu

[jfxg]

The first thing is to get windows back. The following is from Microsoft:
windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Startup-Repair-frequently-asked-questions
sorry I can't post the full URL
The second thing is it sounds the second disk has the wrong label. Post back and let us know how getting windows back went.
good luck

[walshy155]

So it seems I need a Windows repair disk to do this, atm I don't have one, I'll ask my mate to see if he has one, from there it should be OK.

[walshy155]

I had a situation recently where I could not boot windows (turned out to be a hardware problem that was easy to fix) and I mounted the windows partition in my Suse linux. From there I could copy over all the files I was worried about losing - I can always reinstall windows and my apps.
basic steps were (need to be root level)
mkdir win7 (or whatever you like to call the directory)
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 win7
cd win7
ls (to see if your directories are there)
from there you can use cp -r to copy files to wherever you like

it worries me that grub did not find your win7 when you installed Ubuntu

It does but it saying something wrong with it, I can browse in it and whatnot though.

[jfxg]

About the windows repair you use the installation disk. I just assumed you have one because you said you installed W7 ultimate.
Just boot, select the language, and select Repair your computer.
after that follow the steps in that link I gave you.
By the way I don't know about other distros. but in mine if you mount an ntfs partition with - t ntfs it will mount ro to mount it rw try -t ntfs-3g

[yancek]

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdb/! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT, Use GNU Parted.

The message above is just telling you to use GParted to get the information on your Ubuntu partition. It also shows your windows partition on sda1 and since you say you can see your windows files from Ubuntu, windows 7 is probably still there without problems. I believe GParted is on the Ubuntu installation disk but probably not on the installation. Use your installation CD, boot it, go to the System tab on the Desktop and look for GParted and use it to get info.

I just noticed the command I gave you earlier was misspelled. It is nautilus, the file manager.

If you are able to boot Ubuntu from the hard drive, you should be able to get windows 7 in the bootloader menu by running the following commands consecutively:

sudo os-prober

When that finishes run:

sudo update-grub

Grub2 usually detects other sytems (windows and Linux) pretty well so it is hard to say why it did not detect win 7 for you?

You should have a repair option on your windows 7 installation disk. If you don't have the disk, you can get a Recovery disk to do some repairs of windows 7 at the site below. I would suggest reading the page before beginning. If the commands above for Ubuntu don't work, try this.

Download Windows 7 System Recovery Discs — The NeoSmart Files

It does but it saying something wrong with it, I can browse in it and whatnot though.

Is this the "device not found" error you mentioned in the first post?

[vikashiiitdm]

add an entry to grub configuration file like this
root /dev/hda0 /*whatever partition ur windows is on you can fdisk -l for it*/
then chainloader +1
boot

you can type these commands successively on the grub prompt also. it will boot into ur windows i'm sure