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davidmgilo1
December 30th, 2016, 08:44 PM
Hi,

I had to restore windows to a previous point in my computer (Aspire E5-571G) that had(has) a dual boot with windows 8.1 and ubuntu 16.04.

I have tried following the guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows but it still loads windows directly.

I have got the info of boot-repair here: http://paste2.org/7v1BN0FE and I've disabled Fast start up and secure boot.

Could anyone check what I am doing wrong? Thanks!

oldfred
December 30th, 2016, 09:45 PM
Did Ubuntu boot before?
Had you set a UEFI supervisory password and enabled 'trust' on the ubuntu/grub .efi files in the ESP - efi system partition?
Scripts shows no efi files in the ESP, sda2, but that may be script as UEFI shows lots of entries & grub says it reinstalled ok.
Have you updated UEFI to newest from Acer? Some older threads say to downgrade UEFI, but newer ones say very newest UEFI from Acer works.
Acer Trust Settings - details:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2291335&p=13341757#post13341757
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2342323
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2297947&p=13369742#post13369742
Acer Cloudbook shows screen for selecting trust
http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/340-ubuntu-install-acer-aspire-cloudbook-431
http://community.acer.com/t5/Predator-Laptops/Dual-Boot-Ubuntu-Win10-Step-by-step-guide/m-p/430392#U430392

You show a lot of UEFI duplicate entries. Either live installer or once booted, you may want to houseclean duplicates.
sudo efibootmgr -v

The "-v" option displays all the entries so you can confirm you're deleting the right one, and then you use the combination of "-b ####" (to specify the entry) and "-B" (to delete it). Examples #5 is delete:, with Ubuntu you need sudo, others must be at root.
sudo efibootmgr -b XXXX -B
man efibootmgr