On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Anand.R.Kris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I installed Mint 15 from live USB on my friend's PC which has UEFI >> boot. Now after installation, earlier installed Windows 7 started but >> did not boot and went to recovery mode. i installed ubuntu's >> boot-repair on live-usb and tried auto-repair but no luck there. Tried >> some fixes on MBR to GPT but all efforts in vain so far. >> > > Have you tried tools like os-prober (Arch Linux) which detect existing > operating systems. Not sure if there is one for Mint. > > When I moved from MBR to GPT, I had to start afresh wiping out the whole > HDD and recreating and mounting the boot partition after Ubuntu's existing > install broke. > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
Thanks all for your suggestions. Looks like the windows partitions have *SFS* as file system type (from ubuntu boot-repair info)...unsure whether it was already the case.... Will try repair from Windows recovery disk else last resort is to wipe hard disk and start all over again with win + mint installation. Installation on UEFI seems to be a real PITA although secure boot seem to have advantages... -- Cheers, Anand Radhakrishnan When there is a drive, there is a path. [C:\>] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
