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[gparted photo]

I had windows 10 alongside Ubuntu 14.04 on the same hard drive.

When I switch on and the list of options to boot appears I can boot into Ubuntu ok and access all windows files, but can not boot into windows 10.

When I choose windows 10 to boot I get the message:

error: no such device: 27795F9B69145D5C.
press any key to continue...

Then the screen goes blank

I am new to Ubuntu.

vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for vuletic: 
/dev/sda1: LABEL="PQSERVICE" UUID="EAEE-EB49" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="a03c32da-1e8d-4c37-8aa7-b8e8e501f63b" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="C:/" UUID="27795F9B69145D5C" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda4: UUID="323C3EB83C3E7747" TYPE="ntfs" 
vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ 

vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#                
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=a03c32da-1e8d-4c37-8aa7-b8e8e501f63b /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ 

vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc637a1a9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048    20482047    10240000   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2        20482048    79077375    29297664   83  Linux
/dev/sda3   *    79079424   975055575   447988076    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4       975056896   976054271      498688   27  Hidden NTFS WinRE
vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ 

vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
[sudo] password for vuletic: 
 Simple tool to repair frequent boot problems.

Website: https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphj6oekac/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmphj6oekac/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 60D8DA0B from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmphj6oekac/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 60D8DA0B: public key "Launchpad PPA for YannUbuntu" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK
vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ 
14.04 

vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$ sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-106-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-106-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-49-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-49-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-48-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-48-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-49-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-49-generic
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 10 (loader) on /dev/sda3
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-106-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-106-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-49-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-49-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-48-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-48-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-49-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-49-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found Windows Recovery Environment (loader) on /dev/sda1
Found Windows 10 (loader) on /dev/sda3
done
vuletic@vuletic-Aspire-5735:~$
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    Edit your question to include the output, from the terminal app, of sudo blkid and cat /etc/fstab.
    – heynnema
    Dec 25, 2016 at 15:56
  • i hope this is info you asked
    – VULETICA
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:22
  • The line /dev/sda3: LABEL="C:/" UUID="27795F9B69145D5C" TYPE="ntfs" tells me that indeed that the device IS there. What I don't see is any swap file or swap partition. Post the output of sudo fdisk -l and a current-window-only screenshot of gparted. Do you have a Windows 10 install/repair disc?
    – heynnema
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:45
  • i dont have windows 10 install/repair disc as i installed it from internet
    – VULETICA
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:50
  • Did this ever boot into Windows 10 after Ubuntu was installed? Are you still working on a gparted screenshot?
    – heynnema
    Dec 25, 2016 at 19:11

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it seems the OS is looking for a UUID that doesn't exist. Use Boot Repair tool to repair the issue,install it via terminal 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Then if the simple click won't fix things,then you will post the Booting Summary for further help.

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  • thank you sentinel, i tried your instructions and its still same
    – VULETICA
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:23
  • can you post the booting summary from the same tools so as i could see the errors
    – Arduino_Sentinel
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:27
  • you should try sudo update-grub fit,it won't work,then you are going to have to modify boot/grub/grub.cfg manual,excuse that command first,if it won't work then we shall proceed with the next setup
    – Arduino_Sentinel
    Dec 25, 2016 at 18:56
  • @ArduinoSentinel you don't modify grub.cfg by hand.
    – heynnema
    Dec 25, 2016 at 19:02
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    tried reboot and still nothing, same message error: no such device
    – VULETICA
    Dec 25, 2016 at 20:01

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