Thread: Can't boot into Windows -- "too many connections"

several months ago created dual boot of windows 7 , ubuntu on new computer. both operating systems have worked flawlessly point. however, morning serious problem showed up. when starting computer, grub did not allow me select windows install. grub set boot windows default, however, not working. instead, error message saying “too many connections” appeared, , computer booted ubuntu. have attempted boot system several times, each time error occurs. have been unable find solution elsewhere in forums. have 2 questions

1. there suggestions how boot windows. ideas welcome here. need windows possible resume work.

2. root cause, , there way fix it.

backup plan wipe , reinstall os (probably go windows avoid issue on work pc in future). prefer not since time required reinstall of work software kill huge part of day.
suggestions welcome! thanks!

i have not seen many connections, windows trying boot?

post see if boot configured correctly still.

boot info script courtesy of forum members meierfra & gert hulselmans
page instructions , download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
paste contents of results.txt in new reply, highlight entire file , click on # in edit panel(code tags) make easier read.
or can generate tags first pressing # icon in new reply edit toolbar , paste contents between generated [ code] paste here [ /code] tags.
v60 has improved formating , requires code tags make legible. new version zip file have extract .sh run.
install these before running script:
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo apt-get install xz-utils

there new testing version of bootinfoscript, has few fixes, try if like.

code:

wget -o bootinfoscript 'http://bootinfoscript.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bootinfoscript/bootinfoscript;a=blob_plain;f=bootinfoscript;hb=head' chmod a+x bootinfoscript sudo bash bootinfoscript

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