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I recently installed Ubuntu onto my PC. When I went to install it, there was no option to install alongside Windows, so I partitioned space for it myself. Ubuntu booted up just fine, but when I went back to boot up Windows, it didn't show up in my Grub menu. I tried "sudo os-prober" but got nothing in return from the Terminal. I also tried updating Grub, but no cigar.

So my question is actually dual in purpose, because I want to learn about this kind of stuff: 1. How do I figure out what is still on all my disks, and
2. How do I recover Windows 7?

And I guess, finally, if worst comes to worst, I can do a clean reinstall of Windows from a buddy's system, correct?

Edit: "Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006e059

Device Boot      Start       End                   Blocks           Id      System
/dev/sda1   *      2048     1465147391 732572672 83     Linux"

http://paste.ubuntu.com/10284506/

Spartan
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I think you made a mistake while partitioning the drive, so most probably the Windows 7 is formatted or else it should have showed up in output of fdisk -l command.

One final solution you can try is re-installing GRUB BOOT REPAIR. Type these commands in terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

This will fix the Grub boot loader and will display windows 7 if its still there.

Red Aura
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