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Okay heres the problem.

On my desktop, I had windows 10. I put another SSD in there and installed Ubuntu on that. And when I booted the machine, Ubuntu loaded the boot loader and I could select the operating system I wanted to use, great.

Then I reinstalled Ubuntu because I got in a mess with my SQL server. But ever since then, the boot loader looks different. I lists Ubuntu at the top, and at the bottom instead of Windows Boot Manager (or something to that effect) it says Windows 7. When I select the Windows 7 I get a windows error message which basically says that it cannot load (I cannot remember the details of the error message, but it was large grey text on a DOS like screen).

So now I dont have the option to boot to windows, I have to do it manually from my BIOS which is a huge pain. How can I get this functionality back? I tried mounting the Windows Disk (by clicking on it and viewing the files) in Ubuntu and running os-probe, but that didnt seem to sort anything. The OS is there, so why can't I boot to it from the GRUB boot loader?

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Normally a simple update-grub should be sufficient for detect windows loader and be able to dual boot systems.

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  • yeah, i've tried os-prober, update-grub but it doesnt ever find the Win10 boot. It identifies a Win7 drive in /dev/sdd1 but as far as I know that doesnt exist.
    – Chud37
    Jul 11, 2018 at 9:23
  • It detects the windows 7 loader because use the same as windows 10, the called windows 7 loader should be the windows 10 entry. Just for info, have you update to grub2? If you have grub 2 try update-grub2 or grub2-mkconfig > /dev/null
    – WilliWonka
    Jul 11, 2018 at 9:29
  • @WillWonka I seem to have update-grub2 but not grub2-mkconfig. As I mentioned, when I run the Windows 7 loader from the boot menu i get a windows error. When I run from the Boot menu in the Bios on the correct hard drive I get windows running fine.
    – Chud37
    Jul 11, 2018 at 9:59
  • @Chud37 can you check if the 'secure boot option' on BIOS is active? If it's the case, desable it and try again.
    – WilliWonka
    Jul 11, 2018 at 10:15

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