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So I boot up my computer after installing Ubuntu 13.04. Grub correctly shows me all available boot options and I am able to boot to Ubuntu. However, when I try to boot into Windows 7, grub hangs at a purple screen.

I have an HP laptop. It came with all four primary partitions taken up by the Windows bootloader, the actual Windows partition, one called HP_TOOLS, and another for HP Restore. I was able to back up and delete HP_TOOLS and the recovery partition, and change my disk type from Dynamic to Basic (GParted doesn't recognize Dynamic drives). I then booted into a live session of Ubuntu and made two partitions with GParted: one large partition for storage space that I could use between the two operating systems (sda4), and another extended partition (sda3) which contained Ubuntu (sda6) and it's swap space (sda5).

It currently looks like this:

partitions

I'm not sure if the second paragraph is actually relevant, I just want you to know all the variables in the equation.

Thank you in advance for helping this poor noob.

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You could try using Boot Repair which is explained pretty well in this thread.

If you are also having trouble accessing the windows partition you could try a boot repair from a Windows Rescue CD.

After using a Windows Rescue CD you will in all likelihood need to use Boot Repair to restore a GRUB menu.

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