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I am completely new to Linux and Ubuntu. I have a HP Envy laptop with pre-installed windows 8.1 I have created a Ubuntu bootable usb drive and installed Ubuntu successfully. After installation, I am not able to load windows, everytime system is directly loading Ubuntu.

More information: Windows OS is available on C: driver, D: drive is having recovery provided by HP. I created a new drive E: by shrinking C: drive and installed ubuntu on E: drive.

I have gone through existing threads around this issue in Ubuntu community but could not find anything helpful. I have installed boot-repair software and captured my boot information here

Any help/information/education would be much appreciated!

Please suggest if any further information is required to better illustrate this issue.

Thank You!

Wilf
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kalyan tulabandu
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Install Grub bootloader ( If you haven't installed already) open a terminal and run:

sudo update-grub

23ars
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You can install Grub Customiser:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer

Example of the interface: https://i.stack.imgur.com/1bmmp.png

Mike
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  • I run these commands in terminal, I got the following message. gpg: keyring /tmp/tmpfrnrsgs4/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring/tmp/tmpfrnrsgs4/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 3F055C03 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: /tmp/tmpfrnrsgs4/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 3F055C03: public key "Launchpad PPA for Daniel Richter" imported gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1) OK But I do not find 'grub-customizer' software in search. – kalyan tulabandu Dec 26 '14 at 20:22
  • Install success. But I dont see 'windows' option in list configuration tab of grub-customizer. I see below options – kalyan tulabandu Dec 26 '14 at 21:54
  • <> Install success. But I dont see 'windows' option in list configuration tab of grub-customizer. I see below options (1)Ubuntu (2)EFI/refind/MokManager.efit (3)EFI/ubuntu/MokManager.efi (4)EFI/refind/drivers_x64/ext4_x64.efi(5)System setup. Does it mean I completely erased windows? Is there a way to know if windows is existing on hard drive? – kalyan tulabandu Dec 26 '14 at 22:01
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Install os-prober

Run it.

sudo os-prober

Then update grub

sudo update-grub

compiler
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First try:

sudo update-grub

If that doesn't work, then you can try boot-repair tool to fix that as well. Its easy and effective. 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && (boot-repair &)

Use it to fix your installation. For more details here: Link

ABHISHEK CHAUDHARY
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From :

How to fix blank screen with mouse pointer on Ubuntu install reboot?

This fixed my BOTH problems of

  1. mouse not showing in ubuntu and
  2. windows option gone

some times your desktop may not load due to problem with lightdm.

press CTRL + ALT + F4 then login using your username and password

 sudo apt-get purge lightdm
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install lightdm
    dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

Now type sudo shutdown -r now to restart.

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