Mint Install and Gparted do not see Windows install

[yeejr]

I did a clean install of Windows 7 (64 Bit), which boots just fine. RAID is not set. I've booted to LinuxMint 13 live disk (cinnamon) and a gparted livedisk (and to a ubuntu 12.04 lts livedisk), none of which sees the Windows partition - no dual boot option exists.

Boot-repair does not help: paste.debian.net/190636/

-------------output of inxi -Fc 0

System: Host: mint Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 13 Maya

Machine: Mobo: Shuttle model: FH67 version: 1.0 Bios: American Megatrends version: 1.07 date: 05/27/2011

CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-2600 CPU (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx)

Clock Speeds: 1: 1600.00 MHz 2: 1600.00 MHz 3: 1600.00 MHz 4: 1600.00 MHz 5: 1600.00 MHz 6: 1600.00 MHz 7: 1600.00 MHz 8: 1600.00 MHz

Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GF119 [GeForce GT 520]

X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa,fbdev) Resolution: 1920x1080@60.0hz

GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x300) GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2

Audio: Card-1: NVIDIA HDMI Audio stub driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24

Card-2: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel

Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller driver: r8169

IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 80:ee:73:1f:d8:61

Drives: HDD Total Size: 6005.2GB (43.2% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD10EACS 1000.2GB

2: /dev/sdb WDC_WD2001FASS 2000.4GB 3: USB /dev/sdc DT_101_G2 4.0GB

4: USB /dev/sdd My_Book_1140 3000.6GB

Partition: ID: / size: 7.9G used: 190M (3%) fs: overlayfs

Sensors: Error: You do not have the sensors app installed.

Info: Processes: 203 Uptime: 15 min Memory: 557.9/16031.2MB Client: Shell inxi: 1.7.33

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Any help would be appreciated....

[HughT]

hi yeejr, you say

Boot-repair does not help: paste.debian.net/190636/

but the Bootrepair report says

Boot successfully repaired. You can now reboot your computer.

The report also says

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

so I guess that's why GParted doesn't show the Windows OS. But that doesn't explain why the repair hasn't worked. Have you found anything further since your post? regards

[yeejr]

Thanks for the reply.

When I ran boot-repair, it seemed to give me the all-clear, but I still could not see the Windows partition when I went to install Mint. I am not sure what the GPT warning means.

I was using GParted to look at the disk, but that did not see the partition either. I even tried to fix it with Gpart, and that did not work.

I ended up finding an older Windows image and restored that first (I was trying to do a clean install). This image was created from the same OEM Windows install disk earlier this year. Then, for some reason Linux Mint did see the Windows install and I was able to install Mint. Unfortunately, the machine did not boot into Grub, just straight into Windows.

Looks like that is a common problem, and seems to be many topics on the forums for it, but I have not had a chance to go through them.

Kinda would like to know why this is happening..

[HughT]

I don't know anything about GUID, so can't help there. Also I realise I was wrong about the GUID being respondible for GParted failing to see that partition. The report says fdisk doesn't support that type of table but that GNU Parted does. Anyway, you've installed Windows and then Mint, but the PC just boots straight to Windows. My guess is that during installation you put Mint's bootloader on the partition mbr, eg sda2, instead of the drive mbr eg sda. You can put Mint's bootloader to the drive mbr from a live CD or USB

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sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt

replace X and Y with the appropriate drive and partition for Mint

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sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sdX

note - there's a gap between =/mnt and /dev, and no partition number after sdX. You should now be able to re-boot into Mint then

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sudo update-grub

so that Grub can pick up the Windows OS. hope this helps, regards