I tried that and now there is no Linux grub or windows boot page. Do I
need to specify a location for the windows boot page?

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On Nov 22, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> You appear to have mistakenly installed grub to the boot sector of the
> NTFS partition.  You will need to use the windows tools ( FIXBOOT
> command in the recovery console iirc ) to repair the boot sector,
> replacing grub with the windows boot loader.
> 
> 
> ** 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 mat be a bug.
> 
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