Boot-Repair is a tool to fix Windows/Ubuntu problems either after installing Ubuntu or Windows. Use this tag if you used the software in any way.
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“SFS detected” - Windows Dynamic Disk help
After install of ubuntu I got a problem. I can't go to the OS selecter (Think it's called GRUB2). I tried the Boot-repair tool but got following message:
'SFS detected. You may want to retry ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit installed but hangs during boot on dual-boot Win7 Pro 64-bit system
My Win7 Pro 64-bit system (8GB, 1TB, 3.2ghz Intel Xeon w3565) was working fine. I wanted to add Ubuntu 13.04. I booted from USB, selected try me, everything booted fine and I got my Unity desktop. I ...
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After installing ubuntu 12.04.2, I can't load windows 8
I have a laptop with in-built windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 64 bit via the method shown on this Ubuntu page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
After use boot-repair, in GRUB menu it shows ...
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After upgrade Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10, it shows me a black screen after boot [duplicate]
I have a new HP envy laptop that came with Windows 8. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, removing windows. After using Ubuntu for about 5 minutes I would get a Kernel panic every time. I think it was ...
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Grub EFI entries and Boot-Repair
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell laptop with OEM Windows 8 on it.
At first, my Grub menu didn't show at all, so I changed the /etc/default/grub file commenting the line GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0.
After ...
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How to solve 'error: invalid efi path' while trying to boot Windows 7?
Here is the output of boot-repair: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5706404/
The GRUB keeps telling me this while I try to boot into Windows:
error: invalid efi path
I can boot into Ubuntu without ...
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Windows 8 won't boot via grub after intalling 12.10 with boot-repair
I hope someone here might be able to help me.
I've just purchased a new Acer Aspire V3-771G laptop which came pre-installed with windows 8.
I shrunk the main windows partition and installed ubuntu ...
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Dual boot problem Windows 8 & Ubuntu 12.04
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed.
But when selecting Windows 8 to boot I get following error:
error: unknown command 'drivemap'
error: invalid EFI filepath
I ...
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Unable to get the grub even after Boot-Repair is performed [duplicate]
I have hp pavillion sleekbook 14 with windows 8. I installed ubuntu only to find out that it cant be booted. I performed boot-repair as others in this forum have did. The boot-repair was successful. ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 GUI does not start on boot, hangs on purple loading screen with Ubuntu logo and five dots
It started like this: I wanted to install Adobe Reader (.bin file) via Terminal. After I created a folder for installation files and started the whole process I suddenly realized that I don't even ...
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Boot-Repair stuck at “Reinstall GRUB”
I bought a new Sony Vaio E14P series laptop. It has pre-installed Windows 8, and I want to dual boot it with Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit. I have disabled secure boot and installed Ubuntu without any problem ...
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Dual booting issues, windows 8, 12.10, eufi
I just purchased a Windows 8 desktop and set about installing ubuntu. The installer couldn't read the hdd, so I installed ubuntu to a separate drive. Now I can't boot into windows, says grub can't ...
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Win8 keeps trashing grub2 (12.10 secure remix) [closed]
So I have win8-64 and 12.10 secure remix 64 playing nice together on a new Asus G46vw. I can boot into either after doing a boot-repair/purge. All is wonderful.
...that is until windows - ever so ...
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Dual boot problem: get grub rescue
Using Windows XP Pro; after installation of 12.04.2 from disk wouldn't boot. Tried installing boot-repair with terminal, fail--locked directory; burned disk, ran boot-repair, now I get grub rescue.
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windows 8 install got corrupted or sda1 got corrupted - installed ubuntu on sda1 also but boot-repair isnt letting me get to win8
Hey all I am a computer technician and last night while sleeping my kids spilled some drink near the computer and since then I got an error trying to login to Windows. So I made a liveUSB Ubuntu ...
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How to restore boot from HDD when boot-repair fails? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to manually fix a partition table ?
I can't boot to anything on my HDD, neither Windows nor Ubuntu.
I can, however, run Ubuntu from a LiveCD.
I tried using ...
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cannot boot to Windows 7 after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and run boot-repair
I originally had win 7 installed, after installed Ubuntu 12.10,
I am failed to boot Ubuntu.
I set Ubuntu as my first boot SATA HA
thanks for any suggestions!!!
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1534279/
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dual boot issue : ubuntu has stopped working after installing win 7
I've had Windows 7 (64bit) and Ubuntu 12.10 installed and running fine for a couple of weeks ,due some reason I needed to reinstall windows 7 but since reinstalling windows 7 I'm completely unable to ...
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After installing Ubuntu I can't boot Windows 8 anymore
I just bought a new laptop (a lenovo ideapad Z500) and it came installed with Windows 8. I wanted to have Ubuntu on it too, therefore I resized the Win8 partition from the control panel and installed ...
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Bluescreen after Ubuntu 12.10 installation, after recommended boot repair “no filesystem found” please help!
After I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 into my Windows 7 a black screen came up and nothing happened for over five minutes. So I force shutdown my computer and started again on the linux CD. I ...
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Ubuntu bootrepair no valid partition table found [closed]
I am not able to boot into my laptop. I have dual boot windows7(64 bit)/Ubuntu 12.04(32 bit). I tried a 64 bit Live CD (didn't have 32 bit one at hand) and followed procedure here - ...
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Dual Booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10 - thinkpad x230
I am having problems getting grub to load Windows 8 properly after installing Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 8 on a solid state drive. Here's what I did:
Fresh install of Windows 8 using USB recovery ...
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Boot path not found, cannot start OS
My desktop is 12.04 64bit, and it cannot boot from the hard drive anymore. When I attempt to it just is stuck on a blank screen with an blinking dash, and nothing happens.
I checked with the bios ...
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Uninstalling Ubuntu dual-boot bootrec issues
So on my laptop I am currently planning on uninstalling Ubuntu 12.04 so I can upgrade my Windows 7 partition to Windows 8, then install Ubuntu 12.10. My issue being that when I boot the Windows 7 ...
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cant login to ubuntu 12.10 after restoring MBR
I installed Ubuntu 12.10, and I had Windows 7 on my machine. after installing ubuntu windows gave the following error
A disk read error occurred
I restored MBR using boot-repair and it works, ...
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Can't boot Windows Xp after intalling Ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
Here's the situation. I installed Ubuntu using the along side option. Everything went ok. When ...
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Problem with hal.dll when going back to xp. Network adapter stoped working. Ubuntu wont load [closed]
I used boot-repair from Ubuntu remix security live CD to fix a lack of a boot menu after I installed wubi in windows XP. I got the boot screen and loaded Ubuntu after start-up and when I went to go ...
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unable to locate package
i had windows xp installed on my pc,i downloaded ubuntu 12.04(LTS) and made a bootable pen drive using pendrivelinux software.........i had resized one of my existing partition using a software in ...
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Grub will not install with boot-repair or by any other means
I am currently trying to get Grub back. I have tried everything from reinstalling, to boot-repair, and even super boot manager. Nothing seems to work.
I have created a log with boot-repair here.
Any ...
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Got into some serious boot trouble
I spilled water on my laptop.
I have a Sony VAIO that originally had Windows 7 installed on it but I decided to format and install 12.04.
After spilling water on it, I didn't turn it off right away ...
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no windows boot option after installing ubuntu 12.04
I have Windows on my machine and then I installed Ubuntu 12.04 using USB. I was not getting the option to boot into Ubuntu, so I ran boot-repair but then now I am not getting option to boot into ...
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I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on my pc and the pc hangs and does not restart more (translated)
Translated from google
My pc is an intel atom + Yes, it came with windows 7, formatted and installed Ubuntu 12.04, but the pc is unstable, it will not turn off properly and alone, appearing msg that ...
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Bootloader error Ubuntu 12.04, system goes to Grub-rescue instead of booting
I am trying to install ubuntu 12.04 on my system but it is constantly giving me bootloader install fail error.
I have tried to lot to solve this issue but reading articles over the internet but still ...
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The disk drive /boot/efi is not ready yet or not present Error
I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit version. I have no problem with it until we tried to take a backup by using Acronis True Image software.
Normally, Ubuntu was seen under BIOS menu under "EFI Boot" ...
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Will Ubuntu work Master w/Slave Drive having the problem?
I have created the Ubuntu 12.4 CD disk. My problem is that another PC cannot be booted, in Safe Mode/Network/Command Prompt, I have tried System Recovery and re-installing Windows XP, nothing works ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 does not boot After installation
I've tried too many ways even reinstalling grub with live cd and terminal but still the same , help please
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Boot Repair forced Ubuntu to load Unity2D and the mouse cursor freezed
I am a GRUB noob and I would appreciate if you could help me with my issues.
I want to install several GNU/Linux Distros but I broke GRUB so I used boot-repair to fix it.
I wanted to have a separated ...
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Windows not booting in dual boot with Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7
I have dual Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 installed in my PC.
I installed Ubuntu after Windows, and I have issues with GRUB. After installing Ubuntu, there was no boot loader in the start up, with an ...
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os-prober fails to identify a linux system so I need to write a custom grub2 menu entry as a workaround, how?
I want to add a custom menu to grub2 like this (as /etc/grub.d/40_custom):
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries ...
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Upgrade-grub and boot-repair fails. Unable to boot one of my linux systems, is there a way around?
I have three Linux and two windows systems on one computer.
After updating the kernel on one (archlinux) and running update-grub on the default (BIOS) boot disk (Xubuntu 12.04), the boot menu does ...
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Unable to install boot-repair
I am trying to install Windows 7 on Ubuntu. I created NTFS partition for Windows 7 but I deleted a 5GB partition so I got a error message when I reboot Ubuntu.
grub rescue error
To solve this ...
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Cannot access external hard drive after boot-repair
For reasons unknown my hard drive refused to boot. I ran boot-repair, but forgot to unplug my external 500Gb hard drive. My primary hard drive booted nicely, but now my external is not working.
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Computer doesn't boot after installing Ubuntu 12.04 for dual booting with Windows 7 [closed]
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my computer without problems, but after rebooting i got the following error:
Error: No such partition
grub rescue>
I am a novice with ubuntu and any detailed ...
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ubuntu 12.10 doesn't load
I have a problem with Ubuntu on my laptop. My laptop went into hibernation, but I couldn't log back on, I had to unplug my laptop to restart Ubuntu. My boot menu loads normally and shows Ubuntu and ...
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Windows 7 + Ubuntu 12.04 + Invalid EFI file path + Boot repair + Grub many entries
I've a ASUS N56VZ with Intel Core i7 - 3610QM, with Win 7 Home Premium x64 pre-installed. This computer come with EFI instead of the traditional BIOS.
When I bought it, I had 3 visible partitions. C ...
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Bootloader Problems Grub Won't Load Windows 7
I sent this to boot.repair@gmail.com, still no response thought I could get a faster solution here.
I am running Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on separate partitions.
The message is sent is:
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hd0 read error; tried boot repair still won't boot [closed]
I have tried to boot from grub rescue from console. I have also tried boot repair, but it didn't help. Here is the full boot repair log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5668816/
Boot repair reports that the ...
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Cant boot windows 7 after installing ubuntu 12.04 boot-repair 1101088 [closed]
I try to boot windows 7 and a blank screen appears for a couple seconds then goes away. I then attempted the boot repair and got this url
http://paste.ubuntu.com/1101088
please HELP!!!
