Recovering windows 7 after ubuntu 10.10 install

Hi,
I tried dual boot and installed ubuntu 10.10 ,but after the ubuntu install i couldnt use windows 7. I have installed windows in a different partition and i can see the windows partition, but when the system boots I could not see any option which tells me to choose the os and it directly goes into ubuntu. Please help me to solve this. I am having grub 2 so cant edit menu.lst.Please help.I am not sure whether is this the right place to ask this question. This issue is making me mad.Please help :(
Krishna

Managing and configuring a bootloader manually requires a detailed view of your current partitions and what was installed, in particular if you come across incompatible bootloaders like EFI GUID and PC MBR.
The Grub bootloader installation will normally recognize your windows partition and provide a boot menu option. My guess is that you have perhaps written the bootloader to the wrong partition, or made the wrong partition active. Unfortunately there can be many options, each requiring a different solution.
If Windows 7 is your primary OS you can boot from the Windows installation DVD and have it recover your Windows. It should search for the Windows installation and fix/replace the current bootloader. After that you can erase Ubuntu and start over again.
However, if this is in connection with your recent posting about installing Oracle 10g under Ubuntu 10.10, you might want to check out Oracle Virtualbox, install Oracle Linux and should have less trouble running Oracle 10g. With Virtualbox you can run any Linux and Windows side by side, provided you have enough physical RAM.
You might also find the following link interesting:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/community/developer-vm/index.html
which I learned from New Install of Oracle Linux 6
Edited by: Dude on Apr 28, 2011 3:22 PM

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