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At the grub menu when I select windows 7, it does not take me there instead, it just returns to the grub menu and ask me to select the OS. I have no problem booting to ubuntu. Would you kindly help me fix this guys?

Godbless
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I'm not sure how many Windows partitions grub discovered on your system, but on my Dell laptop, it discovers two: a small "rescue" partition and a large "system" partition.

In order to boot into Windows 7, I find I must choose the small "rescue" partition from the Grub menu. It's counter-intuitive, but selecting the "system" partition does not work.

KevinM
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  • At first it discovered only one partition, which has no window actually. But after I used boot repair tool, two windows partitions appeared. – Godbless Aug 20 '18 at 13:18
  • @GodBless Can you now boot Windows off either of the partitions? – KevinM Aug 20 '18 at 15:57
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after hours of suffering to solve my issue, finally I came across this program known as boot repair, I installed it in my system and then launched it, it surely helped me solve the problem. After I rebooted my computer windows 7 came in /dev/sda 2 on the grub screen, which was not present initially. I think my computer failed to boot because the device /dev/sda 1 which I saw at first on grub screen had no windows in it, thus why selecting /dev/sda 2 soled the problem.

So, anyone with the problem please, try using boot repair tool in your ubuntu OS.

To install it type the code here in your terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
Godbless
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Try grub-customizer latest version, you can find detailed instructions here .
I had the same problem because i moved Windows 10.
Then i got some problem with it and i repaired the Windows boot.
With grub customizer i find the option that i used in the bios for the boot but somehow works only if directly boot into that choise.
If this don 't work you can use the system System setup option (that you can set to be available with grub customizer).
Unable to boot into Windows after installing Ubuntu, how to fix like karel has said may be a duplicate and you could find something useful.

Scorpion
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