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So when I select windows 7, it bounces back to the boot loader.

Only way to fix so win7 can boot is load windows install DVD and bootrec.exe to repair the mbr. Then linux wont boot, only way to fix, is boot a liveusb and run boot repair, then windows 7 wont boot. Here is the pastebin link http://paste.ubuntu.com/12245491/

And before all this mess, my linux install corrupted gnome shell so it refused to boot and I could only boot ubuntu regular desktop. SO I reinstalled ubuntu and got gnome shell working and this is when windows quit working. I have a separate /home partition and had 2 drives, one just data, the os's and /home are all on one drive. I have disconnected the extra drive to be less confusing for grub???

It used to work fine. So what has happened?

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Inexplicably, I managed to get it booting both win7 and ubuntu!

Ok, I also managed to get the odd plop usb flash boot loader to run. It showed 2 partitions, both were called HDA1? Selecting either one booted win7.

So I pulled the power plug. Then I booted liveusb ubuntu 14.04 Then I reran again boot -repair Instead of selecting normal repair, I went to advanced and told it to erase grub completely. Then it ran and eventually pops up a warning, 'If I remove grub computer will be unbootable', so I clicked cancel. Then I ran boot-repair again here is the new report http://paste.ubuntu.com/12247350/ So I shut down and verified both win7 and ubuntu now boot fine.

Could it be that when I told boot-repair to erase grub completely, but still cancelled at the warning, that it made some changes??, and that is why it now works again?

Also there are two .iso files, I chose the bigger file to write to usb. plop boot loader shows up in unetbootin as 'default' entry. click it and it loads an almost unreadable red window with lines running thru it. picture of it. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Y...2/DSCN0347.JPG

(We were trying plop to see what might be able to boot.)

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