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OK, so I wanted to dual boot Ubuntu 13.10 64bit with Windows 7 64bit on my Sony VAIO laptop. I installed Ubuntu to a separate partition (/dev/sda6) and placed the boot loader with Ubuntu on /dev/sda6. I rebooted and was taken straight back to windows. It was expected, and I used EasyBCD 2.2 to edit my boot menu and add a GRUB2 (automatically locate and load) to the menu. I rebooted and when I selected it, I got a message saying "Windows Failed to Load". I retried EasyBCD, trying different possibilities like selecting partition 6 instead of the automatic option. It did not work. I re-installed Ubuntu and put the boot loader in /dev/sda instead. I rebooted and I found myself, again, at the windows bootloader. I used EasyBCD to no avail. I re-installed Ubuntu again with the boot loader back in /dev/sda6 and re-did EasyBCD, and again, failure. The error code was 0xc0000098. I looked through the partitions that were already set up on my system and I found 6:

  • /dev/sda1 - fat32 - SONYSYS - hidden
  • /dev/sda2 - ntfs - Recovery - hidden, diag
  • /dev/sda3 - fat32 - [no label] - boot
  • /dev/sda4 - unknown - [no label] - msftres
  • /dev/sda5 - ntfs - [no label] - msftdata
  • /dev/sda6 - ext4 - [no label, ubuntu 13.10 install] - [no flag]

What should I do? Can I please have detailed, specific instructions, because all answers I found did not work for my scenario.

Edit: in case I was unclear, the fail to load error is for Ubuntu, I can still use windows fine.

Mikayla Fischler
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You need to repair your windows bootloader and then make grub2 as default bootloader.To do that follow the below steps,

  • Boot windows installation disk then select the "windows repair" or "repair your computer" option before you go into the installation process.

  • After selecting windows repair option,it will take you to the next screen.In that screen select the "command prompt" option

  • Then run the below commands,on it.

    bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd

  • This will repair your windows bootloader.

  • Atlast boot boot-repair-disk and click on the recommended repair option.Now it works.

Avinash Raj
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