Questions tagged [bootrepair]

Boot-Repair is a tool to fix Windows/Linux boot problems either after installing Linux or Windows. Boot-Repair repairs the GRUB bootloader of many Linux distributions and can repair multiple editions of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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Windows failed to boot after Ubuntu installation

Recently I installed Ubuntu on my Windows machine, thereafter I am unable to windows fails to start. None of the options given in startup-repair of Windows doesn't help. Moreover, I am not seeing the ...
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Boot repair with bootable usb stick fails

I try to fix the problem that my PC is not booting. (After an update to ubuntu 22.04, I removed Nvidia drivers and also did an apt auto remove assuming to get rid of some not deprecated packages. When ...
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Windows 10 blue screen and repair loop caused by minitool parition wizard when resizing C partition

I have a critical problem here. I will try to simply explain what happened. I used Minitool Partition Wizard to shrink D: partition and extend C: Partition at the same time. I got a choice as shown in ...
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Unable to repair Windows 10

My laptop (13 years old, I know it is way too old), had a bad battery, which caused the PC to power off without any action from my side (as if I disconnected the power or kept pressing the power ...
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How do I know which edition install disc I need to repair a non-booting Windows 7?

When a Windows 7 install doesn't start I need an installation disc in order to repair it. If I use a disc of an edition of Windows 7 that doesn't match the installed edition it will refuse to do a ...
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repair boot with encrypted partitions

I am trying to repair my system boot with boot-repair. I used to have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu and installed Manjaro alongside. Unfortunately, Windows does no longer show in the boot menu. ...
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Boot-Repair aftermath

So recently I was asking a question about how to fix Grub if I'm installing Windows after Ubuntu. I found the solution and posted it in order to help others who will do the same. But now I want to ask ...
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Loading forever on start up "attempting repairs" screen on Acer laptop

Since I couldn't update my windows without getting a "retry" condition, I followed up with some YT videos and tried a fix. After restarting the laptop, windows didn't load, rather it tried ...
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How to repair/recover windows 10 that won't boot

On a Dell XPS-15-9500, I had a dual boot installation of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 that worked well for a long time. Then something strange happened (I think after a Windows update) and neither ...
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Fix MBR with another windows version disk

After trying to remove Zorin OS from a dual boot machine (Win10, Zorin), W10 cannot boot anymore and goes directly to a BIOS memory scan. This machine has Windows 10 Pro, version installed this year ...
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System will not boot to disk even after Boot Repair

I have a system that refuses to boot to disk (or to boot to [defaulted] USB) without manual intervention. (It will not boot to disk at all.) HISTORY - may be unimportant: This HP Proliant Microserver ...
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Can't use boot-repair tool to repair the bootloader of my ubuntu

I followed the tutorials on internet, which told me if I can't boot my ubuntu appropriately(coz I changed my motherboard, the boot-loader has been overwritten), I need to use a bootable usb and use ...
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Dualboot only finds Windows after Clonezilla restore

so some facts: Had a dualboot installed on my laptop with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. I got a new SSD for my laptop, increasing the internal disk space size from 512GB to 2TB. As there is only a ...
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How to reset windows 10? When drive is corrupted

How to reset my acer predator laptop? My C drive is corrupted as my laptop force shut down during an update. It's stuck in boot and won't go past troubleshooting screen. Tried: Alt+f10 to reset, no ...
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Windows stuck in "Preparing Automatic Repair" after an unplanned power-down while disabling WSL

I'm running Windows 10, updated to it's latest version as of writing this on an Acer Predator Helios 300. Boot times for the laptop have been getting longer, and the system has been slower and laggy ...
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Boot-repair not working after installing win10_20H2 after debian

i've been running debian for quite a while, i wanted to install windows because i'll use it on classes, so i tried to make a bootable drive with win10_20H2 and Disk Image Mounter, with WoeUsb-ng and ...
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Why do I need to boot my pc every time I turn it on

Hi I installed a new motherboard in my pc and sinds then I need to boot my pc into windows every time I start it up and can’t find why it’s doing that can any one help?
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Ubuntu boots, Windows doesn't on New PC with old SSD

I installed a new motherboard, cpu and ram but unfortunately my Windows won't boot. I have dual boot - Elementary OS and Windows 10. Elementary works just fine, but when I select Windows in the boot ...
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How can I fix a boot loop caused by a damaged Avast installation?

I'm stuck in a boot loop. Can't even get into safe mode. More on the situation here and here. This happened when I reinstalled Avast. I want to now uninstall Avast. This is how I'm thinking of doing ...
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Avast's ASWARDISK causing Windows to not start

After creating a Linux bootable USB, I noticed that at start up I got an error message from avastui.exe The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000005) Click Ok to close the application. ...
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How to execute DISM from Windows 10 PE on Win 10 system with Windows Update / Microsoft as source only?

I've got a corrupt Windows 10 installation (SFC noted Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix someo of them...) so I tried to run DISM, from a Windows 10 PE USB ...
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Boot Repair Disk: unable to access dpkg status area in Debian

I have a machine with two physical hard drives and Debian 9 on one of them. A couple of weeks ago I replaced thermal paste in there and it stopped booting. After some time of troubleshooting I found ...
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System reserved formatted to EFi

I was installing Ubuntu with windows already installed so when i tried to install it on my desired drive it gave an error that no efi file system found so I changed my system reserved disk of windows ...
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Infinite loop of startup repair

I have windows 7 on an old laptop which was working fine till this morning when it, out of nowhere is not booting up and keep redirecting me to startup repair. It has been running this repair for 3 ...
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Fix unknown file system grub rescue> error

When I boot normally, after the bios screen it shows error : unknown file system entering rescue mode... grub rescue>_ I think it's because, I deleted the Linux(which I used to dual boot) ...
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Live-USB vs Bootable-USB vs USBwithOSonly

So much confusion amongst those three. Say I have a Laptop with C: drive only which is crashed and not booting up..probably a corrupt MBR or MFT...and I want to recover the C: Having not enough ...
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Issue booting into windows after Ubuntu installation

Issue I was trying to install ubuntu from a flash drive but ran into some issues during the installation since it was not showing all my disk partitions. After trying to troubleshoot the problem I ...
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Can't install any linux distros. Grub Boot loader installation freezes and keyboard and mouse won't work

I tried to install several Linux Distros but just Debian 10 and Kali Linux made it to the installation screen. Other ones just stuck at the loading screen. I tried several ways of Rufus settings but ...
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No Grub After Windows Shutdown [closed]

I'm using ASUS Rog with Dual Boot (Windows 10 and Linux Mint). After windows shutdown, my system is not booting into any operating system; Shows a bios menu instead. I have tried to repair it using ...
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how to restore win 10 driver from linux

I've installed (Bushound) in Win10 and it corrupted my Windows. My device has a disk driver that Windows repair doesn't recognize. I want to update Windows driver from Linux itself. Is it possible?...
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Unable to get to login screen: Windows 10

I am trying to boot my Win 10, but after the window's logo the machine stucks on the circling dots and does not reach the login window. I am unable to boot in safe mode but the command prompt is ...
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Hitman pro deleted windows 10 dlls, and won't boot up

I recently downloaded Hitman pro to check my computer for malware, but it flagged some windows dlls as unknown and I accidentally deleted them. As soon as that happened, the screen went gray (except ...
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After resizing NTFS partition, Windows 10 no longer boots

My computer is configured for dual-booting via Grub. I run Windows 10 and Ubuntu 17.10. Earlier today I was working in Ubuntu and I ran out of space on my ext4 partition. Wanting to make it larger, I ...
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Can I repair corrupted windows 10 by running DISM or SFC but over the web using SSH?

Assuming the windows 10 system had all the files and programs ready to accept remote access via SSH (a guide or a small step by step reference would help) and also assuming that all access codes and ...
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I've deleted the boot partitions on my hard disk drive. Data still remains. Can I recover it or make the system bootable?

Using a cloning tool to move my hard disk drive’s data to another drive, I saw some weird, unnamed partitions that I thought were unnecessary and/or malware... And very confidently, proceeded to erase ...
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Windows 10 won't boot; won't get to Startup Repair/Recovery options

I'm a db dev & vba programmer, very active on Stack Overflow, but Windows 10 boot/hardware stuff is out of my comfort zone. I have an Acer E551 laptop with Windows 10. A few months ago it had a ...
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Asus A88XM Plus Memory Test

My Asus A88XM Plus based system unexpectedly stopped working and will not now boot. I see the MemOK LED is red and I'd like to try a new stick of memory. Currently the system has a single 8GB Kingston ...
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Windows 10 boot failure

Had bsod. Mini dump file indicated memory corruption. Subsequent attempts at rebooting resulted in Windows attempting automatic repair unsuccessfully. Memtest x86 identified one of two 8 GB stick of ...
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Repairing GRUB dual boot Kali and Windows system from "grub rescue>" prompt

I resized the partition on my dual boot system (Windows and Kali Linux) and now it is booting with the grub rescue> prompt. I am able to get from there to the grub> prompt using: set root=(hd0,...
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Laptop too slow even to boot

I have tried startup repair, taking too long(2 hrs and counting). Even safe mode isn't working(keeps showing 'loading files'). Is it because of some virus? What do you recommend i should do next?
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Windows recovery error on boot

I have recently been getting an error on my PC after the machine BSOD and then hung for an hour. I decided that the PC was frozen and hit the restart button on my PC. After the PC started to turn back ...
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Switch grub2 between ubuntu 14 to 16

I have Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 10 installed in first disk of my laptop. Also I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed in second disk of my laptop. After a brutal shutting down(battery issue), grub2 doesn't ...
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Restored Windows Vista Recovery Partition Image not booting - clonezilla

I've followed the first two of these guides from clonezilla.org, but: applied to a Windows Vista Recovery partition; partition-to-image rather than disk-to-image. I wiped out the entire disk after ...
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Can't dual boot on my Toshiba laptop

I have recently installed Ubuntu 16.04.2 on my Toshiba Satellite C55-B5299. At first, GRUB was not booting at all. I used boot-repair to try to fix this. However, whenever I boot, I get this... ...
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Installing Linux without recreating the previously created partitions

Tried to install Linux but during installation it's not recognizing the previously installed Windows and Linux OS. When creating partition, it is displaying entire hard drive as one partition.. any ...
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Takes too much time to boot but after OK

One of my computer 2gb ram 500gb Pentium dual g2020 2.9ghz Windows 10 32bit Is taking nearly half an hour to boot. But after boot things are super fast.. What would be the problem?
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Are there any chances of losing data during Boot repair

I had dual booted Ubuntu 14.04 along with Windows 8.1 but for some reasons I decided to uninstall Ubuntu. So I deleted the partition containing Ubuntu and now want to perform a Windows boot repair. I ...
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How to make a cloned OS drive bootable?

I had the misfortune to use EaseUs to clone the OS drive from MBR to GPT using the clone option, not by using the clone system option. The old drive (RAID-0) still works as system drive for Windows 7, ...
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Compatibility of Linux OS with Windows 8.1 [closed]

I have a Windows 8.1 64-bit i3 processor system. I have two questions to ask. Firstly, I want to ask that which Linux operating system is best compatible with my current OS? Previously, I dual ...
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Spilt water on laptop, stuck on BIOS screen

Friend spilt water on laptop, left it to dry for 7 hours and turned it back on. Now stuck on American Megatrends BIOS screen. What should he do?
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