Installed Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu; No Longer Boots

Question

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows about a week ago and I can no longer boot in to Windows. When I attempt to boot, I get the error, "Invalid EFI File Path." I tried to change the boot parameters for the entry in GRUB from /dev/sdc1 to /dev/sda* (the asterisk representing 1-3) to see if that's the issue since there's actually no Windows install except for on /dev/sda, but that didn't exactly work.

Here is the paste from Boot Repair: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1169189/

I understand that repairing the Windows Boot loader would disallow me from booting in to Ubuntu, but I need to get in to Windows to do some things, so is that worth a shot?

Answer 1

You should use your own Windows 7 installation media to install the Windows boot loader, then use "EasyBCD" to create a boot entry for Ubuntu on windows boot loader.

Answer 2

I think your problem is this:

menuentry "Windows bootmgfw.efi.bkp, generated by Boot-Repair" {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 0648-FFF7
chainloader (${root})/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.bkp
}

menuentry "Windows memtest.efi, generated by Boot-Repair" {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 0648-FFF7
chainloader (${root})/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/memtest.efi
}

menuentry "Boot bootx64.efi.bkp, generated by Boot-Repair" {
search --fs-uuid --no-floppy --set=root 0648-FFF7
chainloader (${root})/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi.bkp
}

Note in particular the filenames on the chainloader lines -- bootmgfw.efi.bkp and bootx64.efi.bkp are not valid EFI boot loader files, and they don't seem to exist on your disk. The files bootmgfw.efi and bootx64.efi, however, do exist and are valid EFI boot loader filenames. (I can't guarantee the files you've got are valid, of course, but the filenames are.) I recommend you change these filenames in the /etc/grub.d/40_custom file and then type sudo update-grub to pass those changes on to the GRUB configuration file. You could also manually check the contents of /dev/sda1 to be sure that those files exist with the proper filenames; there's a possibility that something has improperly renamed the files and then updated your GRUB configuration to match that. I have no idea how GRUB would respond to such abuse.

Answer 3

First try to update the grub with this command:

sudo update-grub

Maybe that fixes the grub. If not try to fix the windows MBR (Master Boot Record) with a windows Media. This action will corrupt your grub, but no need to worry. You can fix the grub any-time with just a live media of Ubuntu