I've got an issue with Windows Recovery Environment after the Ubuntu installation, in particular after the installation of GRUB2. On sda1 I've got a Windows 7 installation thing (bootable, something like previously supplied Windows installation CD but on HDD, the biggest mistake of Microsoft). On sda2 I've installed Windows 7 which now I need to reinstall.
GRUB2 sits at the first 512 b of sda with the following 4 entries:
• Linux ...
• Linux recovery ....
• Windows 7 ....
• Windows 7 recovery env...
Everything works OK except for the Windows Recovery Environment. The entry for Windows Recovery Env is as follows:
insmod part_msdos
insmod ntfs
set root='(hd0, msdos1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set da1e-3be0
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
After choosing Windows 7 recovery env, I get the following error:
booting a command list
error: no argument specified,
Press any key to continue...
...and then a black screen with a blinking cursor appears.
I think I've tried everything that I could only think of. I remember that when I first installed GRUB2 I had to do some manual changes to Windows 7 entry because it wouldn't run either. So I tried in a various ways to modify the entry for Windows recovery, but with no luck. I even did a backup of MBR (first 512 b of my sda) and tried to restore the Windows boot from some other Windows installation CD by running bootrec /fixmbr and then /fixboot... but after this the thing got even worse because then on PC startup instead of loading Windows directly, I only got a black screen with an annoying blinking cursor, so I had to recover my Grub2 from the backup to boot anything at all.
Is there any way to get to the sda1 and boot the Windows Recovery thing from it? I would be very grateful for any kind of hint!