At that point you can try removing the Vista drive again, and 7 should still boot fine after that.Īs far as the shutdown issue… Other people have suggested looking in the event viewer, and that’ what I would suggest too. After the next reboot, it should show two Windows boot manager entries. The rest of the steps should show as succeeded, and after that it will ask to reboot, so select yes, then go to Mint and enter the sudo update-grub command again. It should show that it failed on the step to remove the old bootloader, which is expected, since it’s not there. I’d install Macrium Reflect Free edition and have it create a USB or disc bootable, then boot that and select “Fix Windows boot issues.” It should find both Windows installations, so select 7, of course, and then select the Windows 7 drive for the place to install the bootloader. This is essentially the same thing as following the above advice about creating a recovery disc… if the Windows disc cannot repair Windows, there’s no point to creating the recovery disc, as it will just try the same things. Since you have it handy, it would certainly be worth a try to boot it and see if it will be able to repair it, but my guess is that it will tell you that it was not able to repair Windows (based on my recent experience with the Windows 10 install USB trying to place a bootloader on my Acer Swift’s drive). So, my question- what should I do next?Īs far as putting the bootloader on the Win 7 drive: The discovery of the Windows disc doesn’t change anything as far as my suggestions.
Turns out I do in fact have it, apparently sent with that W7 HD and forgotten in a drawer- perhaps this changes the picture. Previous advice centered on repairing the bootloader (with some variations) as I thought I did not have the W7 installation disc. No idea how to retreat from this, so shut down with the power button. But the new pressing issue is that W7 will not shut down, gets hung up on the “shutting down” screen. Replaced the Vista HD and with that W7 booted as expected, much to my relief. Previous advice here was that the Vista drive is needed to open W7. At first, BIOS showed the W7 drive as “disabled” but now merely shows it, I can select it, but the PC defaults to Mint anyway. BIOS still lists the W7 HD, seen on the boot options at startup, but will not boot to it, defaults to Mint. This went well, but then could no longer open W7. Removed the Vista HD and installed a new blank HD, which I loaded with Mint via a download. Since Vista now no longer used, attempted to substitute Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1, the most recent version, for the Vista OS. Several years ago, bought and installed a second hard drive programmed with W7 HP 64 bit (a legitimate copy).
I have detailed my attempts to dual-boot W7 and Mint Cinnamon in previous posts, but here is a recap:ĭell Inspiron 519 PC, originally came with Vista.
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