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Maddogcz75c

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Registered: 2012-02-10

Posts: 8

Windows 7 and Arch linux dual boot problem

hey guys I had an issue with windows 7 dual booted with arch and i was just wondering my windows 7 crashed. I had Reinstalled windows OS and all my partitions are set up but now when I try to boot up arch I cant at all cause windows Boot took over and i have no way of getting into arch is there anyway i can fix this or maybe reinstall arch without loseing my home folder with all my data, or is there just and easyer way to fix this issue im stuck.  thank you all for your support as i am a noob

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,302

Re: Windows 7 and Arch linux dual boot problem

You need to re-install grub. When you reinstalled Windows it will overwrite grub preventing you booting Arch. You'll need to boot from a liveCD and chroot into your Arch installation. details for recovering grub are in the wiki - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … stallation

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Terminator

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2012-05-07

Posts: 265

Re: Windows 7 and Arch linux dual boot problem

You don't even need to chroot into your Arch. You can just boot the live cd, run grub, then enter:

root (hd0,1)
setup (hd0)

(this is in case your grub partition is on sda2)