11-13-2014, 11:32 AM
Thanks for such a quick reply, I suppose I should have been a bit more specific in my diagnoses
You are correct in your breakdown of the easy BCD method of dualbooting and the first time around I followed the instructions to a T. I thought I had memorized and replicated these instructions but I guess I was either faulty in execution or some unknown circumstance was in play during my next installation.
Even though (I thought) I applied the boot loader installation to the root partition, it directed me to the windows bootloader upon reboot but with an error saying it could not boot into windows due to a recent hardware or software change.
During the next reinstallation I just left the area for the bootloader as the entire toshiba harddrive hoping maybe i could recover access. All of my partitions and drives are still listed in grub but standard access to my Windows7 partition is stopped at the bootloader error screen.
Access to the recovery partition still works but I do not want a clean wipe and have not seen an option for repairing only the OS or anything similar. The status error for windows remains the same and research on it leads to a lot of confusion on my end since hyper-noob
You are correct in your breakdown of the easy BCD method of dualbooting and the first time around I followed the instructions to a T. I thought I had memorized and replicated these instructions but I guess I was either faulty in execution or some unknown circumstance was in play during my next installation.
Even though (I thought) I applied the boot loader installation to the root partition, it directed me to the windows bootloader upon reboot but with an error saying it could not boot into windows due to a recent hardware or software change.
During the next reinstallation I just left the area for the bootloader as the entire toshiba harddrive hoping maybe i could recover access. All of my partitions and drives are still listed in grub but standard access to my Windows7 partition is stopped at the bootloader error screen.
Access to the recovery partition still works but I do not want a clean wipe and have not seen an option for repairing only the OS or anything similar. The status error for windows remains the same and research on it leads to a lot of confusion on my end since hyper-noob