Mint 8 and win7 dual boot

[aadisriram]

Hi all, i wanted to try linux mint8, i had windows vista as my default os and recently i dual booted with windows7 . Now i deleted vista and installed mint over it, problem is i am not able to log into win7 anymore !!! please help me. I cannot use the win7 repair disk also to fixmbr using bootrec it says disk failure after that and makes me lose my mint as well . Please help .

[Biker]

Go through these steps to get your drive in working order again, and then we'll work on getting Mint installed.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

[aadisriram]

bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
c:

this works ..

beyond this it says bcd not found

[Biker]

Then use the rebuild option.

[aadisriram]

it says zero installations found

[Biker]

Oooof! Your only recourse at this point is to attempt to restore the partitions using gpart or some other rescue utility.

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... rt#p271010

[aadisriram]

hi all, i did something stupid and all my partitions got deleted ..
i installed windows 7 ultimate fresh again, but now carefully on the first primary partition.
I want mint8 now, tell me the right way to do it so that my grub entry to win7 works without me having to change ne thing ..

[Pierre]

What is drive F: <Aaidi> used for?.

that would be a good partition to reformat & use for the mint to install over / erase / re-use.

just point the partition manager to that & format it.

[aadisriram]

that drive holds all my projects and stuff .. also few games .. cant i shrink D: ??

[Biker]

Is there just one physical drive in the system?

[aadisriram]

if that means a single hard disk .. yes only one hard disk .. its a laptop ..

[Biker]

Back up the data on D: then shrink the partition to the desired size. You should then have plenty of room for the Mint installation.

[aadisriram]

should i create the new partition as a logical one or a primary ? file system does not matter right ? and can i leave it as unformatted and my mint can take over directly and make it ext4 file system. i hope i aint talking stupid things

[Biker]

Leave it as a logical partition. And yes, you are correct in assuming that you can assign the file system type during the install.

[aadisriram]

when the file system can be chosen at install time, why should i even make a partition of it ? Cant i leave it as unformatted space ? If i installed mint in it, would i get grub error ? I hate it i want my grub to automatically have win7 and work properly.