Dual booted ubuntu, windows install gone?

[FuzzyYellow]

Hey guys, I think i dun goofed. I installed ubuntu as a dual boot with windows, and edited the partitions and did everything how you're supposed to do it, (I've dual booted linux before) and now my windows install is gone. I can get to grub, but there's no windows option. I have extremely important school files on the windows partition that i absolutely cannot lose. Does anyone know what to do?

@WinNut

[WinNut]

You could mount the Windows partition within Ubuntu.

[Sauron]

Can you mount the windows partition in ubuntu?

[007agentHP]

BOOT into ubuntu, go to terminal, and type in "update grub"

thats what worked for me

[FuzzyYellow]

You could mount the Windows partition within Ubuntu.

It's been a while since I've used ubu. How do i do that again?

Edit: it says error mounting file system. Windows is hibernated, refuses to mount.

[WinNut]

It's been a while since I've used ubu. How do i do that again?

Holy shit. I actually don't know how to do that myself since Ubuntu always did it for me.

 

You can recreate the boot sector by inserting the Win7 disc and using Bootrec.exe in the tools section. I remember there was a program that I used to create some custom Windows + GRUB stuff but I forgot the name, let me check my old statuses.

[FuzzyYellow]

BOOT into ubuntu, go to terminal, and type in "update grub"

thats what worked for me

Says command not found, but it gives different update commands like update, xupdate, etc. but it says none of the are installed...

[FuzzyYellow]

Holy shit. I actually don't know how to do that myself since Ubuntu always did it for me.

 

You can recreate the boot sector by inserting the Win7 disc and using Bootrec.exe in the tools section. I remember there was a program that I used to create some custom Windows + GRUB stuff but I forgot the name, let me check my old statuses.

Im on win8...

[FuzzyYellow]

I'm installing uupdate as we speak.

[mark201200]

Hey guys, I think i dun goofed. I installed ubuntu as a dual boot with windows, and edited the partitions and did everything how you're supposed to do it, (I've dual booted linux before) and now my windows install is gone. I can get to grub, but there's no windows option. I have extremely important school files on the windows partition that i absolutely cannot lose. Does anyone know what to do?

@WinNut

create a windows usb boot drive, and use startup repair. it should remove GRUB and let you use Windows Boot Manager

[FuzzyYellow]

create a windows usb boot drive, and use startup repair. it should remove GRUB and let you use Windows Boot Manager

Can I just use my windows disc?

[mark201200]

Can I just use my windows disc?

yes

[FuzzyYellow]

Haha "repairing disk errors. This may take over an hour to complete."

[Guest]

Says command not found

It's 'update-grub' with a dash and you have to precede it with 'sudo'.

So it's sudo update-grub and the terminal will ask you for your password.

[FuzzyYellow]

It's 'update-grub' with a dash and you have to precede it with 'sudo'.

So it's sudo update-grub and the terminal will ask you for your password.

Ok, makes sense that it would be a super user command, but I didn't think of that.

IT WORKED! Thanks for all the help guys!

[007agentHP]

It's 'update-grub' with a dash and you have to precede it with 'sudo'.

So it's sudo update-grub and the terminal will ask you for your password.

oh wow, did i have a brain-fart thinking it was update grub when its

sudo update-grub

that's what i get for not using Ubuntu for 2 months