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Showing posts with label restore mbr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label restore mbr. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Fix MBR (Master Boot Record - Windows boot manager) after messing the grub boot manager when dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu and reconfigure it using EasyBCD

This time I decided that instead of installing Ubuntu using wubi with Windows 7, I'll dual boot the daily build of elementary os with Windows 7. I downloaded and boot eOS using a bootable usb using plop boot manager. Everything went smooth but I wrongly installed the grub over Windows 7's MBR at /dev/sda.

Grub became the boot manager and there is also windows 7 entry at the grub boot menu along with eOS menu entry. But when we select windows 7, it again comes to the first shown grub boot menu. So it created an infinite loop for the windows 7 and I was not able to boot to windows 7.

The next step was obviously restoring the MBR so that I can boot into Windows 7 and also keep the eOS along with windows 7. So how did I achieve this?