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I deleted my Ubuntu partition because I wanted to install Linux Mint. But now when I switch on my laptop, I'm unable to boot into Windows. I'm getting a grub terminal (not sure if it's grub rescue mode) on startup.

It says:

Gnu grub version 2.02^beta2-9ubuntu1.3
Minimal bash like line editing is supported 
For the first word, tab lists possible command completions. Anywhere else tab lists possible device or file completions .
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  • Go to this link to get windows boot loader back. howtogeek.com/howto/33433/…
    – Neil
    Oct 24, 2015 at 4:49
  • Is there any way to do it without using the Windows cd?
    – Rohit Gajawada
    Oct 24, 2015 at 4:55
  • Close voters: Using grub is part of Ubuntu too. It's even an Ubuntu version of grub!
    – Seth
    Oct 25, 2015 at 16:02

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Boot into Ubuntu Live CD/DVD/USB and then open up a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt +T and type in 

sudo fdisk -l

You shoud get someing like this 

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000200658432 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121600 cylinders, total 1953516911 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000255a1

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2          206848   922578943   461186048    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       922580992  1953513471   515466240    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

my disk is /dev/sda yours might be different. now type in

sudo grub-install /dev/sda

change /dev/sda to your drive

Then run 

sudo update-grub /dev/sda

the you should see something like this.

Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1
done

Reboot your computer and you should be able to boot into windows

Hope it Helps.

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