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Dual boot Linux Installation went wrong!!!

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ab - Aug 17, 2011 at 09:55 PM
bionik Posts 4233 Registration date Thursday August 19, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen August 3, 2016 - Aug 18, 2011 at 01:19 AM
Hello, folks!

I installed Ubuntu Studio in my laptop, which is already is having a Win7 OS, My aim was to make it a dual boot ,.. but during installation i got messed up with the partition system.. and dnt know what I did , which finally ended as this...!!

ab@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted -l

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 496GB 496GB primary ext4 boot
2 496GB 500GB 4257MB extended
5 496GB 500GB 4257MB logical


Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)
Disk /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: 4257MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 4257MB 4257MB linux-swap(v1)

Please, needed help to recover all my lost data of my hard drive of WIn7
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bionik Posts 4233 Registration date Thursday August 19, 2010 Status Moderator Last seen August 3, 2016
Aug 18, 2011 at 01:19 AM
Greetins,

Open a terminal and type this: 
sudo os-prober 
sudo update-grub


Then restart your laptop to see if you can boot from Windows now.

Good Luck
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