Windows 7 not booting

Joe Porter

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So at the moment you have no Ubunutu or Windows? I would suggest booting Ubuntu from a live CD. Then you should be able to find your data (even the windows stuff) back it all up.

After that have a look at this link.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/927392

If that doesn't work try this: (don't do it until you have recovered your data though)


From Windows 7 DVD, click Repair your computer when you see this screen:

Then select Command Prompt in the Repair window:

Once you've entered the command prompt, type diskpart to enter the utility.

Type select disk # replacing "#" with the drive number of the one you wish to format. To see a list of disks, type list disk.
Type clean. This deletes all volumes from the drive.
Type convert mbr to convert the disk to mbr.
Note: You can repeat this process and in step 3 replace with the command convert gpt to go back to GPT.