So I have this Lenovo Y510P laptop with Windows 8.1 installed on it. Everything worked fine until two days ago, when I tried to install Ubuntu.
I successfully installed Ubuntu and after few minutes of using it, the image froze and I tried to restart the machine. After I restarted the machine I noticed that my OS won't boot any more, so I tried to manually select it in the Boot Menu.
Unfortunately, I received these errors :
Windows Boot Manager boot failed
Windows Boot Manager boot failed
Ubuntu boot failed
Ok, so I started searching different solutions on the internet and I also tried a few things :
- I tried to repair my laptop using the Windows 8 installer, I selected Troubleshoot Menu, and I selected "Refresh your pc", and I receive this :
The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again. After that, I selected "Reset your pc" and I received this :Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing. - After these try-outs, I decided to check if I can make a new installation of Windows, and I cant, it says :
We couldn't find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load driver. So now I thought that it may be a problem with my hard-disk, I thought that my laptop wouldn't recognize it or something like that, so I accessed the command prompt and I used the command list disk, and it shows me just the size of the USB on which I have my windows installation, no other disks. After that I checked if my hard disk is being recognized in BIOS and it is.
I tried to use the automatic repair from the troubleshoot -> advanced tab, and now I can't access the Windows 8 installer because I receive this error :
Recovery, your pc needs to be repaired.
The Boot Configuration Data file doesn't contain valid information for an operating system.
File :\Boot\Bcd, Error code: 0xc0000098
Does anyone know how to approach this problem?
EDIT : I tried all methods from repair, including automatic repair. The thing is that when i plug in my usb with the windows 8 installer on it, if I go to repair->advanced->command prompt and I try to do a chkdsk or a list disk it shows me just the size of my USB, no other disk is found, I ran few commands for checking my disk and building a boot enviroment but it's still not working, the windows installer isn't detecting my hard disk.
