Title basically explains it, I just need help for it to detect Windows because I don't want to remove it...
So can you currently use elementary OS right now? Or is that dead too?
Elementary is fine, but I don't want to install it yet.. I can use it fine just not ready to put it onto the drive...
Ohhhhhhhhhh I see.
look up how to dual boot. There are plenty of videos that will explain the steps much better than I can.
Are you trying to dual boot? What machine is this going to? Laptop/Desktop?
Is there anything special about the Windows drive?
My own Mint installer used to give me the exact same error. After a number of re-installs and configuration changes, I figured out that it simply wouldn't see Windows whenever I had the latter on set of RAIDed drives.
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Yeah that is what I am trying to do... On a laptop with one drive.
ok, just remember :
1. Go to disk management in Windows and shrink your partition. This is important because doing that in gparted in a Linux LiveUSB can cause problems.
So the option is on grub but when you chose windows it cannot find it?In either case the case did you try a ¨sudo update-grub¨ on terminal and what happens?
The same or similar problem got solved in the below thread on Ubuntu Forums.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236762
Just do what the OP said in post 8 on the above mentioned Ubuntu forums thread. From inside the Live cd.
sudo os-prober which showed there was a windows 7 boot sector on /dev/sda1 followed by sudo update-grub to update grub. Now I get an option on startup to choose which OS to boot into.
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It doesn't find Windows, I do have it on another partition but that shouldn't matter, anyway I might have to scrap elementary since it fails when I try to install I will keep trying though.
Even with the ¨sudo update-grub¨ or what @Goalkeeper posted?
Also do you mean another disk and not partition? Because obviously the 2 OSs will be on different partitions.