Cannot see windows 7 in boot menu after installing ubuntu

Question

I had windows xp and windows 7 in my system. I installed Ubuntu 14.10 into the XP partition and from then on the system directly boots into Ubuntu and doesnot even show windows 7 in the boot options but I can access the files of windows from Ubuntu. Kindly help me out here I'm a completely newbie to ubuntu and i know nothing.

Here is my bootfileinfo

http://paste.ubuntu.com/10102886/

possible duplicate of Lost Windows 7 in GRUB after installing Ubuntu 14.04 — Fabby, Feb 10 '15 at 15:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:42

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Try:

sudo update-grub2

and have the OS prober attempt to place Win7 back in your grub.cfg

Reboot

answered Feb 07 '15 at 04:42

Nodak

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after updating also it shows only ubuntu but not windows again :( – Bee Kay Feb 07 '15 at 05:19
@BeeKay, sorry, I went looking and the best I came up with is lost-windows-7-in-grub-after-installing-ubuntu-14-04. Good luck. – Nodak Feb 07 '15 at 16:06

Cannot see windows 7 in boot menu after installing ubuntu

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