Dual boot Win7 and 10.04?

Hey guys, about a month ago I installed 9.10 on my laptop alongside Win 7 Home Premium, but with limited success. GRUB2 didn't like Win7 at all and i had to continually re-install GRUB, as I'd be stuck in a continuos loop that prevented me from booting into either operating system.

I looked around online and saw that many others shared my same problem and proceeded to erase all traces of GRUB and Ubuntu off of my computer.

My questions to you all are as follows: How many of you are successfully dual-booting Win7 and 10.04 on a single hard drive? Are you encountering any problems loading GRUB2 upon startup? How are you liking Lucid Lynx?

 

Lucid has been fantastic for me, I'm currently booting this laptop in WUBI mode due to an issue with the raid I have and that should work great for you since it uses the windows 7 boot loader as the primary. They say the HD performance in WUBI mode is a little worse, and you don't get Hibernate, but it's not so bad.

On Numerous other machines, though, I'm running Win7 and 9.10, 9.04, or 10.04. I haven't had any issues, as GRUB has automatically added my windows partition to the boot option on every install. If not you should be able to have GRUB rebuild the boot options, or edit them manually.

I'm not sure what happened with your existing GRUB, but I never change anything existing in the GRUB config when I play with it, I'll just copy-paste new entries so if something gets FUBAR you can still always boot to what worked.

If I were you I would remove your entire Ubuntu install so it's just a windows box, insert 10.04, and give it a shot from scratch. I think you'll be surprised how well everything will work together (your last experience notwithstanding of course )

 

Thank you very much for your response. I've never had a problem with GRUB not recognizing windows, but a problem with GRUB itself loading. I'm going to give 10.04 a shot for sure.

 

when I installed ubuntu 10.04 on my nettop post-win7 installation, it completely ruined my MBR, so bad that even the win7 DVD couldn't repair it, would refuse to rebuild BCD with the a unsupported filesystem error. this is AFTER it installed grub to the wrong drive (installed it to my main 1TB drive instead of the 250GB drive I specified upon installation) so be careful.

 

I'm typing to you now from my fresh new install of 10.04. Everything installed fine, but now i just play the waiting game to see if what happened to you, Element, happens to me.

Crossing my fingers and knocking on wood.

 

Dual booting win7 and 9.10/10.04 has been no problem. I wonder what is going wrong with grub?

 

No problems so far. When I was dual booting Win7 and Karmic, GRUB would fail and wouldn't even give me the option to boot into either OS. I'd have to boot into Karmic from the install CD and re-install/repair GRUB. Unfortunately, it would fail again after "x" amount of startups.

I'm really impressed with Lucid so far. I haven't had the aforementioned problem yet, and hopefully i never will.

 

9.04 and Vista x64 worked fine, no problems with GRUB. Then in October I upgraded Windows 7 and 9.10, again no problems in GRUB (except I hated the new update-grub requirement). Now 10.04 and Windows 7 are still working together, but it may be that during the upgrade process I said not to upgrade GRUB this time. I just don't like to change my boot loader if it already works! (All of this is on my laptop mentioned below, 320GB HDD)

I wonder why it isn't working for you?

 

10.04 works beautifully.

9.04 repeatedly failed.

I wonder why 9.04 didn't work for myself and a few others that happened to have similar problems.

 

I just used WUBI and installed it into another partition.. Havent tried to uninstall though lol.. As they said uninstall just like any other program?