Comment 12 for bug 1079482

I tried both of them ( separately and together) All I got then was a flashing underscore.

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On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Phillip Susi <email address hidden> wrote:

> You need to use the FIXBOOT command iirc, not FIXMBR, to repair the
> windows boot sector.
>
>
> ** Changed in: grub2 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
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> Title:
> Windows 7 Not Booting
>
> Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> My computer came with Windows 7 installed on it. I wanted to try
> Ubuntu, so I installed it alongside Windows 7 and everything was fine.
> I needed more space on my Windows 7 partition, so I deleted the Ubuntu
> partition from the hard drive. When I went to restart I got a blank
> screen. I reinstalled Ubuntu allongside Windows 7 and was able to
> restart and boot Windows. The next day I got the same blank screen, so
> I reinstalled Ubuntu over Ubuntu, leaving the Windows 7 partition
> alone. After that, when I try to boot Windows 7 it keeps sending me
> back to the select an OS page. I get an error that says:
>
> The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows
> properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or
> mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option.
> For example type on the command line:
>
> mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda3 /media/OS
>
> whenever I try to access the Windows OS portion of the hard drive.
>
> When I try the command it does not work and I get a message saying
> that "only root can do that"
>
> I can not resume Windows to shut it down properly though, because I
> must first unhibernate Windows.
>
> I believe this may be a bug.
>
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