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I have attempted using bootrepair from a Ubuntu usb, and lilo neither of which are working. OSrepair states that I have no os on the hard drive yet I know for a fact windows is still on it because when I deleted the Ubuntu partion I did so on my windows os. Now I cant get out of grub rescue and nothing is fixing my bootloader to point to windows and I have zero idea of what to do now.

EDIT: using supergrub2 I was able to boot windows, this is the only way ive been able to do so currently. now I just need to fix my bootloader to point to windows but I'm honestly lost on how to do this

Another edit, since someone tagged this as a dupe, I have already checked any previous posts about this topic for the answer and every thing I have tried hasn't worked. almost as if you who tagged this as a dupe didn't read the first part which said neither boot repair or lilo fixed it. So the other answers will not work.

Feline
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    http://www.digitalcitizen.life/command-prompt-fix-issues-your-boot-records this might solve your problem, I'm not sure, but it's worth taking a look – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 06 '17 at 01:09
  • I read it but no bones. Don't have a recovery disk. Or anywhere I could insert a cd for that matter on this computer. All I have is a usb bootable. I really don't know what the issue is with this. – Feline Apr 06 '17 at 01:22
  • Bootable usb should work fine, all you need to do is go to Windows cmd and fix boot and mbr – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 06 '17 at 03:14
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    Possible duplicate of How to remove Ubuntu and put Windows back on? – wjandrea Apr 06 '17 at 03:30
  • @SumeetDeshmukh I tried using windows cmd to fix mbr, it didn't work. tried using recovery as well, didn't work. Not sure why either. – Feline Apr 06 '17 at 21:01
  • @feline Please read all the answers on the duplicate question. Lilo and Boot-Repair are just two options out of many. In this case, OS-Uninstaller might be your best bet (although I've never used it myself, so take this with a grain of salt). – wjandrea Apr 06 '17 at 21:21
  • It's not very useful to just say that a recommendation didn't help. What is useful is to give the outputs of any tools (like the Boot-Repair log file), and what the results were after. – wjandrea Apr 06 '17 at 21:26
  • I tried os-uninstaller as well, it didn't even detect my windows os. Again not sure why any of this is the case. And ill post the log @wjandrea but does that even happen to work on a UEFI boot system? I'm not good with anything to do with boot. – Feline Apr 07 '17 at 02:38
  • Boot repair states it was succesful yet it didn't actually work. Heres the boot info log , http://paste.ubuntu.com/24335294/ – Feline Apr 07 '17 at 17:36

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Go into BIOS and move the windows boot manager to the top using F6 and F7 keys. Save and exit Then you will be able to normally boot into Windows OS

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  • cant do that, there is no windows boot manager in my bios only the ability to boot from hdd or usb/ sd. I wish it were that simple :'( – Feline Apr 06 '17 at 03:14
  • In that case if it is a UEFI boot system then installing the rEFInd bootloader may help but can't tell anything surely – Pranal Narayan Apr 06 '17 at 03:32
  • Hope this documentation related to rEFInd may help http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html – Pranal Narayan Apr 06 '17 at 03:33
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Not exactly sure what I did, but after several attempts at different softwares and, all of them not working. Grub somehow disappeared. I believe It had something to do with rescatux as I went through and selected almost everything I could to see if I could get this os functional without a usb. then after that, I lost grub recovery and instead, gained a windows error screen stating I needed to repair my os. finally it worked when I inserted a windows recovery iso, but some of my files are corrupted for whatever reason.

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