Re: Regarding dual boot

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 04:55:49PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> Sorry dear!
> I tried with all genuine methods and installed debian 8.1.
> But whoa! I lost my activated version of Windows 10. I WAS able to access
> all my hard drives as I did a proper shutdown but the grub os list showed
> no link to windows.

Running update-grub puts it in the boot menu.

This has been happening for many people for quite a while and no one
seems to have figured out why since it always works the next time
it seems.

> I reinstalled windows 10 and still am eager to run linux flawlessly.
> Please guide me.

Well the occational bug where os-proper doesn't add windows to the boot
menu has the simple work around I mentioned above.

A reinstall of windows is certainly complete overkill and a serious waste
of time.