I installed Ubuntu on an old Thinkpad SL300 laptop. I partitioned out space from the Windows 10 partition (which also is the boot-partition. This is a legacy system, so no separate EFI boot partition). I booted live-disc and installed Ubuntu, selecting the Windows primary partition for GRUB-installation.
Once Ubuntu is installed, I realized that the Windows partition is in hibernation mode because Windows decided to hibernate when I told it to shut down. That leaves the partition in a read-only state. Whenever I select Windows 10 from the GRUB-menu, it just loops back to GRUB. I suspect this is because Windows' boot partition is in a read-only state?
I tried boot-repair, but it didn't help. Is there a way I can fix this issue without reinstalling either of the OS's? At least without reinstalling Windows?
Thank you.
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
followed bysudo update-grub
. However, Windows may still not boot in which case you'll need to recover its bootloader first (or repair) with Windows installation media.bootrec /fixmbr
andbootrec /fixboot
enough from the CMD, do you think?