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This is one of my first posts, so forgive me if I do not off as specific as I want to be.

Yesterday, I tired to play my hand with Ubuntu by attempting to have a duel-booted Ubuntu 14.04 LTS/windows 10 system. I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FuLXIKLVjg to guide me through the process even though it was for different version of Ubuntu. I figured the steps would be more or less the same, and even now I believe that it was.

I created a partition for the first time with little knowledge of how it is used, but since the installation required it, I went through allocating space for Ubuntu. After, placing the installation on a flash drive, I restarted my PC and continued with the installation.

I suggest that you refer to the video (@ 8:35) because a visual image would make what I am about to say next more understandable. This was what I would call my first warning sign, because that "Install Ubuntu along side Windows Boot Manager" was not one of my options, so, foolishly, I decided to proceed with the "Something else" option.

The video guide did not cover this section, so I was left with no direction of where to turn to but my own limited knowledge of arranging storage space. As for another visual representation, please go to: (How to use manual partitioning during installation?) because I believe it thoroughly explains what I did and altered.

For the location for the install, I clicked my newly create partition, but it would not let me continue without selecting a "mount point". I selected "/", the first one, and denied the option for a swap area, because in my mind, I believed that the 20 gb space I allocated to it would enough. As you can probably tell, my lack of information guided me to make these rash decisions.

After, the installation was completed, I restarted my PC hoping to get the page where it allows me to choose between Ubuntu and Windows (@ 9:42 of the video), but did not. My computer tried to boot up windows 10 as normal, but the scary thing is, it will not complete the boot. It is stuck on a "loading loop", which even after 10 minutes it continues and does not start windows.

I have a backup disk and a systems repair disk, but my computer does not recognize them -- saying that I should retry and place a system image in the CD-ROM for it to continue. Then, I tried booting windows from a previous state, which I was met with a "the drive where windows is installed is locked" error message. This led me to assume that the problem lies with the changes I made to my hard drive storage, but you guys know better than me.

Please help me fix my PC so that I can load windows normally, and definitely ask me anything if you need any further information.

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Boot from a Ubuntu live-usb and select try ubuntu option. Then install Boot Repair and run it with recommended options. I believe it will fix the problem otherwise post the pastebin link that boot-repair provides here.

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  • While running boot repair, I received the error message "Grub failed to install to the following devices: /dev/sdb". Should I continue because it warns me that my computer may not start up properly if I do? – Steve M. Mar 29 '16 at 13:10
  • I continued anyway. Here is my pastebin: http://paste.ubuntu.com/15552444/. I can now boot into Ubuntu 14.04 and my files seem all to be intact. The problem still remains as my window 10 is not booting. What can I do now? And, thank you for you previous advice. – Steve M. Mar 29 '16 at 16:07
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You need to update grub through the command in terminal (TTY).

sudo update-grub2
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