11-13-2014, 03:46 PM
suburbandisposal,
I'm assuming you can still boot into your installed Linux Lite with instructions below.
Going to describe a method that might work to restore Windows booting. If it does work to boot Windows, you will lose ability to boot LL, but should be able to use EasyBCD again to add back ability to boot LL. If it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot into either of them and you'll need to repair booting to LL. You can install Boot-Repair to your live LL installation CD/USB and use that to repair booting if that happens.
* Make sure you still have a bootable LL installation disk handy in case ability to boot into both Windows and LL is lost.
* Make backups of any important data on both LL and Windows partitions before proceeding, just in case something really gets messed up. Should be able to copy off whatever you want from Windows partitions when using LL. (If need help with that first, post back before proceeding.)
* Boot into installed LL, open a terminal and enter following command to attempt fixing Windows boot:
* Close terminal and reboot computer.
* If lucky, Windows will boot and you can use EasyBCD to add LL back to boot menu.
* If lose ability to boot either OS, use your live CD/USB to boot computer again.
* Follow instructions (for Ubuntu 14.04) shown here to install Boot-Repair to the live environment and run the "Recommended Repair". That should get LL system booting again.
* Try looking on Windows 7 forum for other solution to repair Windows booting -- I don't know enough to advise further on that.
I'm assuming you can still boot into your installed Linux Lite with instructions below.
Going to describe a method that might work to restore Windows booting. If it does work to boot Windows, you will lose ability to boot LL, but should be able to use EasyBCD again to add back ability to boot LL. If it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot into either of them and you'll need to repair booting to LL. You can install Boot-Repair to your live LL installation CD/USB and use that to repair booting if that happens.
* Make sure you still have a bootable LL installation disk handy in case ability to boot into both Windows and LL is lost.
* Make backups of any important data on both LL and Windows partitions before proceeding, just in case something really gets messed up. Should be able to copy off whatever you want from Windows partitions when using LL. (If need help with that first, post back before proceeding.)
* Boot into installed LL, open a terminal and enter following command to attempt fixing Windows boot:
Code:
sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda* Close terminal and reboot computer.
* If lucky, Windows will boot and you can use EasyBCD to add LL back to boot menu.
* If lose ability to boot either OS, use your live CD/USB to boot computer again.
* Follow instructions (for Ubuntu 14.04) shown here to install Boot-Repair to the live environment and run the "Recommended Repair". That should get LL system booting again.
* Try looking on Windows 7 forum for other solution to repair Windows booting -- I don't know enough to advise further on that.
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