Dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 PROBLEM

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I have spent the past 4 days trying to get Ubuntu and Windows 7 on my computer and every time it boots straight into Ubuntu. I have looked through most of the threads and tried Windows first, Ubuntu first, partitioning the drive, reinstall grub with boot - repair, pretty much every tutorial I can find, I only have one USB drive to boot off of, so this is very time consuming. I have to download the iso file and create a bootable USB everytime I install an OS and it's all for nothing because there is no boot menu. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 13 '17 at 13:55

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After installing Ubuntu you can manually add Windows 7 to your GRUB menu:

sudo -H gedit /etc/grub.d/40_custom

Follow instructions in this article on technologytales.com. Or you could try a GUI program GRUB Customizer.

edited Jun 13 '17 at 13:55

Zanna

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answered Nov 14 '13 at 22:22

Pavel

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '13 at 06:35

Upon further research, I found the answer here to get the grub menu to show up.

If anyone is reading this and has the same problem I mentioned above, follow the first answer in the link and it should be good to go. I am now getting a menu and am able to boot into Ubuntu and Windows 7.

Dual boot Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 PROBLEM

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