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I have an SSD with 2 partitions. The first partition belongs to Windows 10 and it worked fine. I installed Ubuntu 15.10 on the second partition and it also works fine.

When I boot, grub is correctly displayed and shows both Windows and Ubuntu. If I select Ubuntu it can boot without issue and I can even access the Windows partition from Ubuntu, but if I try to boot Windows 10 it displays a black screen (like it will start normally) for a few seconds (perhaps 2 or 3 seconds) and then it goes back to grub without showing any message.

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  • If you start the windows boot loader whitout grub does windows start. (press F12, F9, F10, etc. while your PC boots; boot device order and select windows boot loader)
    – Info-Screen
    Jan 25, 2016 at 8:49
  • I tried but I only have 2 options : SSD and normal drive. Didn't work.
    – Jovana
    Jan 25, 2016 at 19:06

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Reset to default
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Edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Find the Windows menu entry (looks like)

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry 'Windows 10 (loader) (on /dev/sdXX)'

After 

chainloader +1

Write

ntldr /bootmgr

It did the trick.

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  • I used this method, but I had to do it through Grub Customizer.
    – Alexiy
    Apr 11, 2016 at 11:39
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    My bloody word!! This worked lol 3 hours later and 1 line fixes me
    – Jamie Hutber
    Oct 10, 2016 at 15:13
  • Excuse me, I was setting up for a few times 'ntldr /bootmgr', What should I do to leave it forever? (I did it by 'sudo' but sometimes it resets!)
    – M. Mariscal
    Dec 4, 2016 at 22:09
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    Coming in a bit late, but in order to fully persist these, you can't edit grub.cfg, as suggested initially. You need to edit /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add the whole Windows entry there, creating a new one (as suggested here: ubuntuforums.org/…). This one will stay there even if you upgrade your Linux or run 'upgrade-grub'
    – ravemir
    Aug 12, 2017 at 17:22
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    Did not work for me on Ubuntu 19.04. I have to use my EFI loader menu ("BIOS" sort of thing) to load my Windows :)
    – kolypto
    Aug 1, 2019 at 8:30
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First of all you upgrade your grub.

    sudo update-grub2

If the above command didn't work, Then you download a windows iso file and also install 'winusb' application which is used to make bootable images of windows, if you have a cd it's fine.

Remember the partition name of your ubuntu. Now you from from windows usb or cd. Now you click on repair this pc and troubleshooting startup options.

It will automatically replace your grub and now you will be able to boot into windows but not into ubuntu.

Now you either install a brand new ubuntu or try working around with reparing it.

If you are going to install brand new ubuntu then i would suggest you to install the boot-loader(Grub2) on the root file system itself.

Then you install EasyBcd application for windows and then link the boot loader to the ubuntu partition, as this the safest way to go on, so that if you have any updates of grub or windows boot-loader there wouldn't be any trouble for you in future.

Click here To watch a video about installing in the safest way.

I have installed 5 Linux Systems and 1 Windows os using the method mentioned above, I haven't got any problem till now.

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  • Oh. Thank you. If possible, I would avoid to reinstall ubuntu again, as I already have a bunch of files and config on it, but I will definitely try to follow your advice. Thanks again.
    – Jovana
    Jan 25, 2016 at 10:18
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This problem is of windows not ubuntu.

I solved this problem by following steps:

1.First selected windows at grub boot menu.
2.Sometimes it go to automatic repair and from that select Troubleshoot -> Advanced options.
3.Select startup repair and it will repair windows.
4.Now simply open windows from boot and it will boot windows normally.
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this worked for me:

  1. install win 8/10
  2. boot on a live linux cd (i used boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso), any from where you can run gparted.
  3. shrink the win partition to make room for your linux.
  4. AND NOW THE REALLY IMPORTANT: restart windows, and then open file explorer (the yellow one) and see that your drive C: still thinks it owns the whole disk.
  5. right click on drive C: and chose properties/tools and click check.
  6. now windows will check and verify the new size of the win partition.
  7. you may have to reboot in to win a couple of times, but finally win knows the size and position of its partition(s)
  8. now you can install ubuntu or whatever - and should it not work, boot-repair-disk-64bit.iso will make it work fast.
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    it is best to resize windows partitions from Windows.
    – ravery
    Oct 8, 2017 at 5:08

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