On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:37 AM, John G. Heim <jh...@math.wisc.edu> wrote: >> Did you, possibly together with a co-worker, actually try that route of >> manually >> repairing the Windows install? If yes, did it do any good? > > Yes, I just tried that and it did work. So at the moment, I have a working > Win7/linux machine with the linux part installed via FAI. The message the > Windows repair said was that there was a problem with the Windows startup > options, asked me if I wanted to repair them and reboot. I said I did and it > rebooted.
it's a known bug with grub-pc/grub2 : grub does not detect the filesystem type correctly for windows vista/7 and just overwrites the MBR, with no regards to the other operating systems. the work-around was to boot from a windows-live cd/usb and fsck /mbr the drive. it was fixed this past january, me thinks, but i would have to go looking for proof. maybe if the new starcraft expansion proves worthy, maybe, i will dual-boot again.
