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Installing Windows after Ubuntu is not the recommended process for a dual boot Windows and

Ubuntu system, but it is possible.

 First, you have to make sure that the 50GB free space is available, resizing your Ubuntu by
using gParted if necessary.
 Also use gParted or Disk Utility to format the the free space as NTFS, this prevents
Windows 7 from creating an additional boot partition in addition to the "C" drive.
 Next, boot to the Windows DVD installer and install Windows on the NTFS partition. Upon
reboot, Windows will automatically boot and you won't see the grub menu allowing you to
choose Ubuntu, because the Windows bootloader has replaced grub.

69  Now, what you need to do is run Ubuntu from LiveCD or LiveUSB and install boot-repair.
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vote  To install boot-repair, open up a terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and type the
+150 following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

 After installation, boot-repair will automatically launch, if is doesn't, launch it via Dash.

 Make sure to select recommended repair to repair grub. Reboot and that's it.

 You should now have a Grub menu on boot, allowing you to choose from Ubuntu, memtest,
and Windows 7

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