Today I installed Ubuntu 14.10 alongside my Windows 7 installation. Unfortunately something seems to have broken and is now causing a boot loop for Windows 7:
I can boot Ubuntu perfectly fine and I can chose between Ubuntu and Windows Boot Manager from GRUB. But as soon as I select Windows, it says Windows is loading files...
and then I'm back at GRUB.
I followed the following step-by-step guide during the install. I set up the partitions as follows:
/
on SSD alongside Windows/home
andswap
on separate HDD
I have already tried the following things to solve the problem:
- run boot-repair with recommended settings (boot-repair pastebin)
- a guide on how to resolve Windows boot-loops using Windows Recovery*
- Windows start-up repair (ran it multiple times, fails multiple times, then says no errors found, but does not solve the problem)
- fixboot and fixmbr in Windows recovery
*I can only post 2 links at the moment, so I'll leave this one out. Basically it involved copying registry backups from \windows\system32\config\RegBack
to \windows\system32\config
What I did not try:
- restore Drive backup and redo the whole process. Reason is, I can't boot up the usb recovery device (screen stays black when I try to boot from it)
Additionally, but probably somewhat unrelated: I had to boot up the Ubuntu Live session with the boot option nomodeset
as otherwise the screen stayed black after GRUB (maybe this is related to the recovery device boot problem...).
Well, that's about as much information as I can recall for now. Any ideas on what I should try?