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So the windows partition for windows 7 while running dual boot 14.10 does appear when fdisk is run. However, it does not appear when blkid runs and there is no way for me to check the uuid because the drive has disappeared from fstab. The windows boot is also gone from grub. Any help from anybody would be appreciated?

Hersh Gupta
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    possible duplicate of How do I mount a hibernated NTFS partition? – mchid Sep 07 '15 at 21:51
  • see here http://askubuntu.com/a/204173/167115 and here http://askubuntu.com/questions/145902/unable-to-mount-windows-ntfs-filesystem-due-to-hibernation and run sudo update-grub after you are done. If it still doesn't recognize windows, you may need to run bootrec from a windows repair or installation disk . . . just don't run bootrec /fixmbr – mchid Sep 07 '15 at 21:53
  • also, to view the UUID, run the following command: blkid | grep ntfs – mchid Sep 07 '15 at 21:54
  • The only problem is that windows is unmountable because it is not present in fstab and to place it in fstab I need the uuid. blkid only returns what is present in fstab. Basically, I am stuck in a circle where I need to boot into windows to be able to add the information to GRUB to boot into windows. – Hersh Gupta Sep 08 '15 at 23:23
  • It doesn't matter if it's in fstab; that just means it won't automatically mount when you boot. Either try running 'blkid' with 'sudo' or run 'lsblk' instead to find out the device name like /dev/sda1 for example. You don't actually need the uuid to run those fixes. Also, it should show up when you run gparted, have you tried that? – mchid Sep 08 '15 at 23:55
  • it does show up in gparted; however, when I try to mount from terminal I get the error that /dev/sda1 (the Windows partition) cannot be found in /etc/fstab. – Hersh Gupta Sep 09 '15 at 00:40
  • lsblk does show the partition, but blkid does not. – Hersh Gupta Sep 09 '15 at 00:41
  • That's because you need to create a mount point to mount the partition at. I believe this is discussed in one of the links I have provided. sudo mkdir /media/windows then run the mount command as mentioned in the other post followed by /media/windows/ in the same command at the end after the device (/dev/sda1 for example) – mchid Sep 09 '15 at 00:48
  • Is it /dev/sda1 ? – mchid Sep 09 '15 at 00:49

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Warning, this will delete any unsaved data in from your hibernated windows session!

Assuming the device is /dev/sda1:

sudo mkdir /media/windows


sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o remove_hiberfile /dev/sda1 /media/windows

Now, you should be able to run: 

sudo update-grub

and windows should be recognized.

mchid
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