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Windows is F'ed, oops

hiyayhi
By hiyayhi
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So I dual booted my school laptop with Ubuntu 14.04 and everything was great, up until today.

 

I went to boot windows, from burg, and all that happened was a black screen with a flashing command prompt key, you can't type or anything. So naturally I wasn't fussed. I turned the computer off and booted Ubuntu, that worked fine. I figured it must be something wrong with either burg or the Windows MBR.

 

When I got home I got out my trusty windows 8 CD and ran bootrec.exe /fixmbr from terminal, I rebooted the computer and guess what! It dun work still. :(

 

Looking for tips on what is wrong.

I know that everything is still there because I was able to look at the files from Ubuntu and I got all of my schoolwork out safely :) but not I am stuck with a computer that doesn't boot windows or Ubuntu. It just does the thing stated above.

 

Maybe its just screwed but I would love to fix it, or even just know what the hell went wrong.

The first step to insanity is believing in your sanity.

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Fixed, all I needed to do was run this command in cmd and it fixed all my problems.

 

bcdboot c:\Windows /s c:

The first step to insanity is believing in your sanity.

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Fixed, all I needed to do was run this command in cmd and it fixed all my problems.

 

bcdboot c:\Windows /s c:

It's great when you fix your own computer problems isn't it? :D

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It's great when you fix your own computer problems isn't it? :D

Haha, yep. Pretty satisfying.

The first step to insanity is believing in your sanity.

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Was this one of those school laptops that comes with all kinds of software preventing you from doing things other than gaming? I had never considered a ubuntu thumb drive to circumvent those programs. DAMNIT, could have pissed off my school librarian even more than when I played doom 95 off of my old mp3 player

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Haha, yep. Pretty satisfying.

Well at least now you'll be able to help others with exactly the same or similar problem. ;)

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