Last week, I installed Elementary OS on one of my 3 partition so that I can dual boot it with Windows 8. After a couple days playing with eOS, I went back to Windows 8. The problem is that Windows 8 appeared in grub, but whenever I selected Windows 8 and hit Enter, it reloaded the grub.
I thought it was a problem with grub, so I decided to recover MBR from grub. Following some instructions I found online, I installed boot-repair in eOS and selected recover mbr
, but it didn't fix the problem.
Then I thought it was the OS problem, and I decided to uninstall eOS. One important thing is that I cannot boot Windows 8. Then I tried booting from my USB stick that included Windows installation disk. I selected repair my computer, command prompt, and I selected the eOS partition and used bootrec /fixmbr
and bootrec /fixboot
hoping it would fix the problem. But after reboot, the display just showed a black screen with a blinking cursor. I tried to reinstall Windows 8 on 2 of my 3 partitions (the other partition is important so I cannot install win 8 on it) but the black screen with blinking cursor showed up again!
How can I fix this so I can boot Windows 8 again?
Update: Thank you all you guy, i've fixed the problem, the reason i cannot boot to windows 8 is that the PBR removed, i dont know why but now i can boot to windows 8.