How to restore Windows 10 boot entry after installing Fedora 24

asked 2016-08-16 13:00:35 -0500

jake
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Hello Boys and Girls,

i decided to upgrade from 23 to 24. So i freshly installed Fedora 24 over 23 (Fedora got its own drive). Everything works as expected, except the Windows 10 boot entry was missing (the entry in the uefi-menu which appears if i hit F11 at startup). Sadly there is also no entry for my Windows in the grub menu.

Rebuilding the grub config did not work, os-prober cannot find the windows boot stuff. I've tried boot-repair via ubuntu live stick, which didn't work either,... but the log is interesting. It says for sda1 (Fedora) and for sdb1 (Windows) "No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block". You can find the whole boot-repair output here.

Please help me get my windows up and running ;-P thx

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Okey, Fedora doesn't seem to be a friend of Windows

Cannot boot into Windows 7 after Fedora 24 upgrade

Unable to Launch into Any OS After Installing Fedora

Does fedora delete windows partition on installation or hide the windows OS

Help is very appreciated

jake ( 2016-08-16 16:01:46 -0500 )edit

That's a very strange setup for Windows. The windows drive doesn't have an EFI partition. How is that possible? The EFI partition on sda1 was created by the installer, so either there never was one or else the installer reformatted it. Can you provide the installer logs? Have you tried booting in BIOS (CSM) mode to see if it can find windows that way?

ssieb ( 2016-08-16 19:20:46 -0500 )edit

Seems 2 bugs have been reported : Common F24 bugs

yolo ( 2016-08-17 10:06:44 -0500 )edit

Here we go, the installer logs (i can provide em all if needed):

/var/log/anaconda/anaconda.log

/var/log/anaconda/storage.log

I've enabled CSM, now i'm able to select the disk Windows resides on as boot device. But if i do so, i'm presented a black screen telling me: "Reboot and Select proper boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" :-(

jake ( 2016-08-17 13:16:06 -0500 )edit

@yolo, those bugs aren't relevant in this case.

ssieb ( 2016-08-17 14:16:35 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-08-18 15:17:14 -0500

jake
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updated 2016-08-18 15:21:26 -0500

I finally did it!

And here is how: I went back to the Windows recovery stick. Within the "Advanced options" i choose "Command prompt" and ran:

bootrec /rebuildbcd

After reboot a "Windows Boot Loader" entry appeared (in the uefi-menu which opens if i hit F11 at startup), but furthermore i only got a short black screen followed by a fall back to the uefi-menu. Again totally clueless, i thought let's try this mysterious "Startup Repair" again and this time it did its job!

@Samuel If you're curious here is my current "fdisk -l" output, still no efi partition on sdb.

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Of course, it will use the efi partition on the boot disk. I was just surprised to see windows on the secondary disk but no efi partition which would have indicated that you had swapped the drives around.

But thanks for the info. That might come in handy some day.

ssieb ( 2016-08-18 15:27:17 -0500 )edit

Same problem but don't understand your solution, can you go step by step as how you did to solve the problem.... sorry I'm to much of a noob

kmillanr ( 2017-09-06 10:52:16 -0500 )edit

Hi! I had the same problem when updating to Fedora 28. How can I get such Windows recovery stick ?

zml ( 2018-07-21 03:18:08 -0500 )edit

@zml, you make it from within Windows. If your system isn't working, you can make it on a different computer. You might also be able to download it from Microsoft.

ssieb ( 2018-07-27 14:58:08 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-08-18 12:41:53 -0500

viper001
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install grub-customizer from terminal and open it... grub-customizer will detect if any OS is hidden it will detect there you can set fedora or windows to open based on your interest...

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nope sorry, grub-customizer uses os-prober to examine the system, which mentioned earlier is not able to find my Windows installation.

jake ( 2016-08-18 14:43:07 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-08-17 14:14:53 -0500

ssieb
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05:52:38,313 INFO anaconda: Creating disklabel on /dev/sda
05:52:38,518 INFO anaconda: Creating efi on /dev/sda1

Somehow you told it to reformat the entire drive during install. It wiped out the existing EFI partition and created a new one. If you don't have a recovery disk, you can download the installation media from Microsoft. Backup your windows files from Fedora if necessary, then see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/h... for how to get and use the installation media.

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Created a Windows 10 recovery stick and booted it.

Whithin the "Advanced options" i choose "Startup Repair" resulting in: "Startup Repair couldn't repair your PC"

As a matter of fact, i destroyed the Windows boot files. Is it even possible now to restore them without reinstalling the whole system?

jake ( 2016-08-17 15:05:10 -0500 )edit

I have no idea about that. Unless someone else has a better idea, the easiest solution is probably a reinstall of windows. I think it will leave Fedora alone, but I highly recommend backing up anything important before doing it.

ssieb ( 2016-08-17 16:07:07 -0500 )edit

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