Hi - I'm at my wits end, and hoping someone can assist.
Almost a year ago, I upgraded my Lenovo U410 to Win 8.1, and it screwed up my dual boot setup with Ubuntu (actually Ubuntu Studio). As I was swamped at the time with work, I put it off and didn't deal with it. Now, I'm trying to fix it, and I don't even recall how it got screwed up. I believe, the Windows boot manager wasn't able to find linux, etc. Windows would boot fine, but Ubuntu wouldn't.
Then I did something dumb - I reformatted the partition that Ubuntu was originally on and tried to install Ubuntu on a newly formatted SSD drive. Still nothing. I tried to use EasyBCD and then Linux Boot-Repair. Boot-Repair got me to be able to boot into Linux, but now I can't boot into Windows at all.
When I boot up, the GRUB menu comes up. When I select the Windows entry, it just reloads GRUB. If I go into the Windows Boot Manager and select Windows, it gives me two entries for UbuntuStudio. when I select either of them, it says that it cannot find an .efi file or an .mbr file.
However, I did make a backup through EasyBCD before I started this whole process. But, without Windows, I can't restore it! Is there any way to restore the backup via any Linux or windows recovery command-line tools?
If it helps at all, here's the results of the boot-info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7111769/
Any help would be greatly appreciated - I have windows applications that I desperately need for a project, and I'm a bit stressed out! I'm ready to wipe the whole thing and re-install Windows, but I want to try one more avenue first.
Thanks,
Nipper
Almost a year ago, I upgraded my Lenovo U410 to Win 8.1, and it screwed up my dual boot setup with Ubuntu (actually Ubuntu Studio). As I was swamped at the time with work, I put it off and didn't deal with it. Now, I'm trying to fix it, and I don't even recall how it got screwed up. I believe, the Windows boot manager wasn't able to find linux, etc. Windows would boot fine, but Ubuntu wouldn't.
Then I did something dumb - I reformatted the partition that Ubuntu was originally on and tried to install Ubuntu on a newly formatted SSD drive. Still nothing. I tried to use EasyBCD and then Linux Boot-Repair. Boot-Repair got me to be able to boot into Linux, but now I can't boot into Windows at all.
When I boot up, the GRUB menu comes up. When I select the Windows entry, it just reloads GRUB. If I go into the Windows Boot Manager and select Windows, it gives me two entries for UbuntuStudio. when I select either of them, it says that it cannot find an .efi file or an .mbr file.
However, I did make a backup through EasyBCD before I started this whole process. But, without Windows, I can't restore it! Is there any way to restore the backup via any Linux or windows recovery command-line tools?
If it helps at all, here's the results of the boot-info: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7111769/
Any help would be greatly appreciated - I have windows applications that I desperately need for a project, and I'm a bit stressed out! I'm ready to wipe the whole thing and re-install Windows, but I want to try one more avenue first.
Thanks,
Nipper