I have done a very stupid thing. I deleted some folders in the C:
drive from Ubuntu. In result, I can't boot into Windows anymore. It starts the boot animation and then keeps rebooting.
I tried checkdisk
, sfc/scannow
and the automatic repair but it doesn't work. What is strange is that I can boot into safe mode so I think my Windows installation is intact. Also checkdisk
and sfc
say no errors found. From Ubuntu, I only delete Windows.old
folder.
Any suggestions? Is there anyway I can see the exact error. May be a log file or something. I tried EventViewer, and System32/Logs
but everything seems normal.
Maybe I could try /fixmbr
and /fixboot
commands. If I do so do I have to reinstall GRUB afterwords?
Windows.old
folder would cause OS corruption: when Windows is installed to a partition with an existing install, Setup moves all files & directories in the root ofC:
toWindows.old
prior to applying theinstall.wim
||.esd
, so either something else was deleted, moved, or changed (such as ACLs), or deletingWindows.old
may have affected the BCD store if a rollback option is offered in WinRE; to correct when dual-booting Linux, you must use a Linux boot fixer for Windows, asBootRec
(normal way to resolve BCD issues) will destroy GRUB boot.