News: Cannot find windows loader after Linux install?

Cannot find windows loader after Linux install?

Have you ever had this happen?

Your main OS is windows, and you just istalled a nux dualboot. But when you installed GRUB to the mbr, your windows loader got deleted! Hence you are not able to get into windows anymore... Sucks. But there's also a solution!

Boot into linux and fire up the terminal:

Then:

  • sudo os-prober
  • sudo update-grub

This will find your Windows partition and add it to GRUB so you can boot into it.

Simple as that.

Just updated your iPhone to iOS 18? You'll find a ton of hot new features for some of your most-used Apple apps. Dive in and see for yourself:

1 Comment

ive done this so many times by accident, sometimes update-grub fails, then you have to boot into recovery windows, open cmd and type "fix mbr". then update-grub works fine :)

Share Your Thoughts

  • Hot
  • Latest