> On May 29, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mi...@kuentos.guam.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 29 May 2015 at 22:22, Bill Oliver wrote:
> 
> Date sent:            Fri, 29 May 2015 22:22:36 +0000 (UTC)
> From:                 Bill Oliver <ven...@billoblog.com 
> <mailto:ven...@billoblog.com>>
> To:                   "Michael D. Setzer II" <mi...@kuentos.guam.net 
> <mailto:mi...@kuentos.guam.net>>
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> Subject:              Re: I lost Windows boot option on installation of 
> Fedora 22
> 
>> 
> 
> In doing some searching, it appears that os-prober is looking for the bootmgr 
> file, and it isn't either finding it, or it is somewhere it isn't looking.
> 
> I would at each of the partition and see if any have the bootmgr program on 
> them. Wondering if it is on the efi labeled partition only?
> 
> My windows 7 machines originally had two partitions, and bootmgr was on 
> both, so I modified the process to filter out the recover partition on as to 
> not 
> show up on the grub list. There was also one site that talked about files 
> being 
> hidden, and os-prober couldn't then see them??
> 
> Also, might want to run strace os-prober and see if it is checking the 
> partitions. 
> 
> Had a server 2008 machine some time ago, and it had a separate partition 
> with bootmgr on it, and nothing on the actual c partition. 
> 
> Haven't worked with an efi setup, so it might be the bootmgr has a different 
> name, perhaps copying it to bootmgr.
> 
> Probable going to be something simple once it is figured out. 
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> billo
> 
> 
You can find bootmgr.exe on your Windows 7 Disk.

If the system partition has been removed,  I don’t think you are actually 
screwed.

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