Yes, forgot to add the grub. Now added. Thank you.Do you have the Windows installation disks?
I don't have physical disks. I have the software though. It's all on my hard-drive.
Yes, forgot to add the grub. Now added. Thank you.Do you have the Windows installation disks?
Yes, forgot to add the grub. Now added. Thank you.
I don't have physical disks. I have the software though. It's all on my hard-drive.
Do you have a full bit to bit Windows install image / .iso?Yes, forgot to add the grub. Now added. Thank you.
I don't have physical disks. I have the software though. It's all on my hard-drive.
Yes. I have backups. Not everything though, Which is why I'm reluctant to do fresh install at present. Thanks for the advice.I don't think you can fix this without a fresh installation of windows.
Be aware that after you installed Windows, you either need to use the windows bootmanager to boot linux or fix grub. It also would be much cleaner to use a separate ssd for windows.
You should also have a backup of all the files you don't want to lose, on a drive that won't be connected when you install any OS. If you're not careful, windows will nuke and claim the whole drive for itself.
Yes, I do.Do you have a full bit to bit Windows install image / .iso?
I completely agree!I don't think you can fix this without a fresh installation of windows.
Be aware that after you installed Windows, you either need to use the windows bootmanager to boot linux or fix grub. It also would be much cleaner to use a separate ssd for windows.
You should also have a backup of all the files you don't want to lose, on a drive that won't be connected when you install any OS. If you're not careful, windows will nuke and claim the whole drive for itself.
Good, glad you have that.Yes, I do.
sudo update-grub
It's all on one drive and partitioned.I don't think you can fix this without a fresh installation of windows.
Be aware that after you installed Windows, you either need to use the windows bootmanager to boot linux or fix grub. It also would be much cleaner to use a separate ssd for windows.
You should also have a backup of all the files you don't want to lose, on a drive that won't be connected when you install any OS. If you're not careful, windows will nuke and claim the whole drive for itself.
Wait.IF you don't want to use Grub see these instructions to use the Windows boot mgr to boot Linux.
Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the tool for booting Linux operating systems.Wait.
Is Grub and Bootmgr different ?
Thank you. I thought GRUB was just like a Terminal thing that allowed me to enter commands to the Bootloader.Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the tool for booting Linux operating systems.
The Windows boot manager is a Microsoft provided application that sets up the boot envirnment and starts the Windows os up.
Yes, they are different by design. They perform the same task in making an operating system boot.
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Well, you can still do that, but it's not really comfortable. And if for whatever reason it gets stuck in this stage, it's normally easier to fix it with a live system than to try to talk to grub...Thank you. I thought GRUB was just like a Terminal thing that allowed me to enter commands to the Bootloader.
You're welcome, glad I could help--Thank you. I thought GRUB was just like a Terminal thing that allowed me to enter commands to the Bootloader.
Thanks mate. Why the winky face ? There are three Windows partitions:Your efi partition, 2 Linux ext partitions and swap look right.
--I'm not sure on your Windows partitions because I haven't ran Windows in 13 years.--
The one thing that I do remember about Windows; is there is one main Windows partition and a Windows Recovery partition.
You may want to wait and see what other members here in your thread that have helped, that know Windows and see what they say.
Oh, okay. I thought you had noticed something that I had not.Your welcome. The winky face was suppose to be a smile just to show a good gesture that you are on the right track with the Linux partitions.
Thanks anyway for your input.It's good that you are able to mount the third Windows partition from Linux.
However, I'm not sure what is going on with the first partition where you think it should be placed.
@dobeshow or our Moderator, @wizardfromoz, may be able to assist you with that issue. Sorry I can not; I haven't ran Windows sine Windows XP.