[Boot-Repair] Graphical tool to repair the PC boot in one click

[fantab]

Enter your BIOS setup and select your HardDisk to boot first or select windows to boot. Your Windows install looks OK to me. I think your PC is trying to boot from USB. If you need more help then start your own thread with appropriate title and leave a link to that thread here. Post as much info as you can about your machine and what exactly you did when installing Ubuntu to USB on that new thread.

[lonestranger]

Hey now, where did help go? Was it something I said?

[fantab]

This thread belongs to 'Boot-Repair' tool specifically. Lets not hijack it. That is why I asked you to start a new thread.
Your problem does not exactly pertain to 'Boot-Repair', as far as I can tell. I hope YannBuntu or someone else confirm my doubts. Also having your own thread increases the chances for you to get right help.

[sudodus]

Hey now, where did help go? Was it something I said?

This thread belongs to 'Boot-Repair' tool specifically. Lets not hijack it. That is why I asked you to start a new thread.
Your problem does not exactly pertain to 'Boot-Repair', as far as I can tell. I hope YannBuntu or someone else confirm my doubts. Also having your own thread increases the chances for you to get right help.

+1

@lonestranger

Please make an own thread with a good descriptive title and a good description of your problem in the opening post. After that make a post in this thread linking to that thread, and a post in that thread linking to this thread. This will increase your chances to get help from several new persons.

Good luck

[andyit]

Hello, nice to meet you guys. I have an Asus u36jc laptop with a SSD inside. I upgraded my bios and my system hadn't booted anymore. As POST goes away the little blinking cursor on the upper left went down a row (just like after a paragraph input) and then stop, the ssd don't load any data.

I only have Windows 7 OS on it but I had a grub bootloader with 2 options, windows 8 (from a usb drive, when connected) and windows 7 (from internal ssd, default). This was installed automatically when I created a windows 8 live drive. I have 2 partitions, a first one empty with no letter assigned of 100mb (to optimize ssd performances) and another NTFS one with the rest of the space (my c:\)

Tried a couple of windows restore cd but they say I have a different version (not true) and restore utility doesn't start. Then I found this great page and ran boot-repair cd, that found something and here is my link http://paste.ubuntu.com/5707342/
The result? Now after POST it says: Missing operating system. Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key.

I ran boot-repair again http://paste.ubuntu.com/5707396/
Nothing, the same message.

With a live cd I scanned the ssd drive for errors, nothing found. and every file seems to be still there, I can read and write on the drive without problems...

I would like to thank you very much, in advance, for your help!
Andrea

[lonestranger]

Alright, screw it. I'm going to reinstall windows. Ubuntu! Ubuntu.

I love the open source concept, but you've got to make this product less DANGEROUS. I had no idea that trying out ubuntu was going to cause me so much grief. Holy ****, I bricked my computer! I think the project should focus less on features and more on usability. Users shouldn't have to sit there and wonder what /sdb1 and /sda2 are. And then if they get it wrong catastrophic failure? Seriously.

[itajaja]

Hello,

I had two partitions on my pc, two linux distros on two ext partitions (sda1 and sda3). I decided to install win8 replacing one of these partitions. Then I used a live usb to repair the grub, but I noticed that the parition got messed up. Here is the boot info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5713190/

Somehow it happened somehting also to the other partition. Do you know what I can do?
Thanks

[fantab]

...
I only have Windows 7 OS on it but I had a grub bootloader with 2 options, windows 8 (from a usb drive, when connected) and windows 7 (from internal ssd, default). This was installed automatically when I created a windows 8 live drive. I have 2 partitions, a first one empty with no letter assigned of 100mb (to optimize ssd performances) and another NTFS one with the rest of the space (my c:\)

...and ran boot-repair cd, that found something and here is my link http://paste.ubuntu.com/5707342/
...
I ran boot-repair again http://paste.ubuntu.com/5707396/

AFAIK... GRUB will NOT work with two Windows Install. There has to be a Linux OS in the picture. I may be wrong. Lets hope someone else confirms/clarifies this. Boot-repair is a Linux utility and it cant help you much with Windows only setup.

Alright, screw it. I'm going to reinstall windows. Ubuntu! Ubuntu.

I love the open source concept, but you've got to make this product less DANGEROUS. I had no idea that trying out ubuntu was going to cause me so much grief. Holy ****, I bricked my computer! I think the project should focus less on features and more on usability. Users shouldn't have to sit there and wonder what /sdb1 and /sda2 are. And then if they get it wrong catastrophic failure? Seriously.

Linux is not Windows, seriously.
With Linux there is a learning curve. If you are willing to go through it then start your own thread and we'll help you.

Hello,

I had two partitions on my pc, two linux distros on two ext partitions (sda1 and sda3). I decided to install win8 replacing one of these partitions. Then I used a live usb to repair the grub, but I noticed that the parition got messed up. Here is the boot info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/5713190/

Somehow it happened somehting also to the other partition. Do you know what I can do?
Thanks

Your Windows 8 install messed it up for you. Windows Disk Management does NOT work with Linux filesystems. Can you boot Windows?
Boot-repair alone cannot fix the issue you have. Start a new thread with an appropriate title and describe your problem in as much detail as possible and post a link to that thread here.

[itajaja]

I already opened a separate thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2149609
After the first boot repair I couldn't access windows (inaccessible boot device error) then I repaired it with the windows disk. I played a bit more with boot repair (nothing crazy) and changed some BIOS options, and now I can't access it anymore (neither i can repair it). Can you suggest me which information do you want me to log, or that you think can be useful?

[onyxtacular]

Good Day all,
Some history first: I would like to use the boot repair to get access data on a previous installation of ubuntu and FOG project where I have images of workstations: I transferred to drive to a new box hoping it would figure things out and I could access it to copy the images to DVD....anyway that didn't work so I reinstalled over that drive...that didn't work...so now I have a new drive installed in the new box...I installed ubuntu server and the I installed the gui over it...now I would like to install the boot-repair to access the imagages to copy them to DVD.

Problem. After typing the code into the terminal I get this error back: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 125 in <module>
ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
File "/usr/lib/pyton2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 84, in
get_pp_info_from_lp
curl.perform()
pycurl.error: (7, "couldn't connect to host")

any help is appreciated.

Thanks