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Pythons
By Pythons
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Hey everyone,

 

A few weeks ago, i partitioned my drive to allow both Windows 10 and Ubuntu to be installed (And a partition for photos)

However, yesterday i tried to remove Ubuntu to put more space into the windows 10 partition; this was through the windows partition tool.

Now it won't boot to windows at all, instead it says:

 

error: no such partition.

Entering rescue mode...

grub rescue) _

 

I don't know what any of this means! I just want to keep my windows 10 and photo partition to be kept safe and be rid of Ubuntu....

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

Thanks! :)

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Sounds like you installed GRUB over BootMGR.

 

Before we continue is the system booting in legacy mode or UEFI mode? If you bring up the boot menu can you choose Windows Boot Manager as an option?

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4 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Sounds like you installed GRUB over BootMGR.

 

Before we continue is the system booting in legacy mode or UEFI mode? If you bring up the boot menu can you choose Windows Boot Manager as an option?

Hey, thanks for the help!

Unfortunately, the only options listed are USB, HDD/SSD, CD/DVD, FDD and LAN

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Get a windows repair dvd/usb (usually the windows installer dvd/usb contains it) and run the repair guide. It should repair your bootloader.

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19 minutes ago, LUUD18 said:

Get a windows repair dvd/usb (usually the windows installer dvd/usb contains it) and run the repair guide. It should repair your bootloader.

I attempted to run the startup repair tool, but it says that it couldn't repair my PC.... :(

I can get up the command prompt, is there a way that i can use this to repair my bootloader?

Thanks! :)

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42 minutes ago, Pythons said:

I attempted to run the startup repair tool, but it says that it couldn't repair my PC.... :(

I can get up the command prompt, is there a way that i can use this to repair my bootloader?

Thanks! :)

the ways to fix this have already been opinted out by others, but as a thought, you may still be able to boot into windows from your boot select screen by skipping over the bootloader

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Hello,
I found that if booted with the windows installation disk, you can load up command prompt and use the following commands:

 

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

bootrec /RebuildBcd

 

It fixes the 'Master Boot Record', and allows me to boot to windows now!

 

Thanks for the help and thoughts everyone!! xD:D

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