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My System Won't Boot

Windows

NOTE: This section only applies to problems arising when dual-booting. If you choose Windows in Grub, and it doesn't boot, follow these steps.

1. Boot into a Windows Live Media (also called Recovery Media or Installation Media)

2. Hit next

3. Choose "repair your computer"

4. Hit Troubleshoot

5. Hit Command Prompt

6. Execute bootrec /fixmbr

7. Execute bcdboot c:/windows

8. Try booting now

Linux

1. Boot into a Live USB

2. Find your root partition with gparted

   1. Launch gparted

   2. Note the hard drive name (DRIVE) and the name of your main partition (ROOT-PATH) (something like /dev/sda1 or /dev/nvme0np1)

3. To re-install grub run these commands

   1. sudo mount ROOT-PATH /mnt

   2. sudo mount –bind /sys /mnt/sys

   3. sudo mount –bind /proc /mnt/proc

   4. sudo mount –bind /dev /mnt/dev

   5. If you have a separate boot partition, mount that now to /mnt/boot

   6. sudo chroot /mnt

   7. sudo grub-install DRIVE

   8. sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg (make sure /boot/grub exists, it may be under /boot/grub2)

Booting a live iso and re-installing grub