I have just installed kubuntu 13.10 on a windows 7 machine but now grub is unable to find the win 7 boot option..:( I have installed and ran boot-repair to generate the diagnostic link.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/7370400
The steps i took in creating the kubuntu installation can be found here .
How do I partition my Hard drive to install Kubuntu?
Please can you help me reconfigure grub2.0 to find the win 7 boot option.
regards peter
You either left Windows hibernated or it needs chkdsk. Partition table says sda1 is NTFS, but none of the Linux tools can mount it to see that it is a bootable partition. If it needs chkdsk or if hibernated, the NTFS driver will not mount a NTFS partition to prevent further damage.
You need a Windows repair disk and run chkdsk on sda1.
You may be able to reinstall a Windows boot loader to the MBR temporarily to boot Windows and see if you can use f8 to get into its own repair console.
But then you have to reinstall grub after fixing Windows. Grub really only boots working Windows.
How to restore the Ubuntu/XP/Vista/7 bootloader
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreUbuntu/XP/Vista/7Bootloader
After fixing Windows and restoring grub boot loader in Kubuntu run this to add Windows to grub menu.
sudo update-grub
