Unable To Boot into Windows8 after Automatic Update

Hello,

I have a Dell Inspiron N5010 which had crashed. I had formatted the hard disk and installed Windows 8. Once Windows was installed and sufficient updates were done, i installed OpenSuse 12.3 through DVD.

During the original crash one sector of the hard disk had got corrupted, so i had left that out as unformatted and then installed Win8 & later Suse12.3. The system was functioning smoothly for some period.

During one of the automatic updates in Suse 12.3( i believe there was also a Kernel Update as part of it), updation happened. After restarting, i was able to get in Suse as usual. But after that i am not able to get in Windows. If i select that option then nothing happens except that the grub option again appears.

I am able to get in Suse, but not in Windows.

the fdisk -l gives output as follows:-
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So, how to resolve this issue.

Thank You

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7563afbe

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1        30926848   135043071    52058112    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda2   *   135043072   339843071   102400000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       339843072   658610175   159383552    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       658610176   976769023   159079424    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5        30928896    35149823     2110464   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        35151872    75376639    20112384   83  Linux
/dev/sda7        75378688   135043071    29832192   83  Linux


Sorry, That didnot come out as required last time.
I am using Gnome desktop.

Hard to say without more information. Could you run https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript and upload result to SUSE Paste ?

Hello Arvidjaar,
Thanks for the response. Took some time for me to get it, here are the info you had asked for. Thank you.

http://susepaste.org/52717007

(I think the issue started after the kernel update to 3.7.10-1.11-desktop, I thinkā€¦ Hope that will be of some help)

Looks like your Windows partition contains stale installation of grub2 instead of Windows loader. I think you need to use Windows to recover bootloader. This will likely remove grub2 from MBR and you will need to recover it too.

SUSE Paste pls help . same problem

Ok it looks like you are doing a EFI boot not MBR so this is not the same problem. It does appear you have a MBR grub install but on an GPT partitioned drive and using EFI BIOS. This is quite messy to deal with since either you changed the format from MBR ro EFI at some point or you did a mixed install with some OS installed as EFI and some as MBR. In either case this can seriously confuse things.

So do you see a grub menu or do you go straight to the openSUSE boot? Do you do hibernation? Do you have Windows fastboot set off?

My personal advise is to erase it all and start from scratch doing it correctly. But it can be worked around.