Hi all,
I had since the beginning a problem with the boot loader: on my system there was at the beginning Windows 7, I then added Windows 8 consumer preview and just last week Fedora 17 64-bit.
The boot loader always displayed just Fedora options and Windows 8 (boot loader); selecting Windows 8 the computer was restarting, and prompting the Windows 7 and Windows 8 options.
What I always wondered was why I couldn't have Fedora, Windows 7 and Windows 8 all together. This because, sometime in January Windows 8 consumer preview will expire, and I will have to take it off, and wouldn't want to have issues in starting windows 7.
In the attempt of resolving this problem, I explored from Fedora the program Disks, in which I saw all the partitions.
I clicked on the Windows 7 one, clicked on the cogs for settings, Edit partition type, and selected "bootable", thinking... well, to make that partition bootable.
But...
It didn't do what was saying on the tin.
The Linux boot loader remained the same, but selecting "Windows 8 (boot loader)" now it shows nothing:
just "select from the following operating systems", and no operating systems to chose from.
Needless to say that in Disks I took off the flag from the Windows 7 partition and now it is not bootable as it was before. This was the first thing I tried to do, but unfortunately, no joy.
How can I bring back Windows in my machine, please? I guess I have to reinstall the Windows loader, or possibly GRUB messed up something and now Windows is no longer seen by Windows.
Please, I need help because I need to work with Windows.
Thanks in advance,
Luca
I had since the beginning a problem with the boot loader: on my system there was at the beginning Windows 7, I then added Windows 8 consumer preview and just last week Fedora 17 64-bit.
The boot loader always displayed just Fedora options and Windows 8 (boot loader); selecting Windows 8 the computer was restarting, and prompting the Windows 7 and Windows 8 options.
What I always wondered was why I couldn't have Fedora, Windows 7 and Windows 8 all together. This because, sometime in January Windows 8 consumer preview will expire, and I will have to take it off, and wouldn't want to have issues in starting windows 7.
In the attempt of resolving this problem, I explored from Fedora the program Disks, in which I saw all the partitions.
I clicked on the Windows 7 one, clicked on the cogs for settings, Edit partition type, and selected "bootable", thinking... well, to make that partition bootable.
But...
It didn't do what was saying on the tin.
The Linux boot loader remained the same, but selecting "Windows 8 (boot loader)" now it shows nothing:
just "select from the following operating systems", and no operating systems to chose from.
Needless to say that in Disks I took off the flag from the Windows 7 partition and now it is not bootable as it was before. This was the first thing I tried to do, but unfortunately, no joy.
How can I bring back Windows in my machine, please? I guess I have to reinstall the Windows loader, or possibly GRUB messed up something and now Windows is no longer seen by Windows.
Please, I need help because I need to work with Windows.
Thanks in advance,
Luca
