Stuck on grub rescue after windows update attempted

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I had a dual boot system with ubuntu and win10 but tonight windows attempted an update which has messed it up and left me in grub rescue.



I am complete novice in Linux and I cant boot from usb otherwise would just reinstall







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I had a dual boot system with ubuntu and win10 but tonight windows attempted an update which has messed it up and left me in grub rescue.



I am complete novice in Linux and I cant boot from usb otherwise would just reinstall







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I had a dual boot system with ubuntu and win10 but tonight windows attempted an update which has messed it up and left me in grub rescue.



I am complete novice in Linux and I cant boot from usb otherwise would just reinstall







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I had a dual boot system with ubuntu and win10 but tonight windows attempted an update which has messed it up and left me in grub rescue.



I am complete novice in Linux and I cant boot from usb otherwise would just reinstall









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  • See my answer at askubuntu.com/questions/961387/…
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  • See my answer at askubuntu.com/questions/961387/…
    – heynnema
    May 20 at 13:39















See my answer at askubuntu.com/questions/961387/…
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See my answer at askubuntu.com/questions/961387/…
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You have to put an Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick and boot from that. After loading the live version of Ubuntu you'll have to chroot into your system and update-grup. Grub will find all your partitions, both Windows and Linux, and you'll be able to choose at boot time again.



Checkout this Ubuntu Help Page for Grub Recovery.






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    You have to put an Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick and boot from that. After loading the live version of Ubuntu you'll have to chroot into your system and update-grup. Grub will find all your partitions, both Windows and Linux, and you'll be able to choose at boot time again.



    Checkout this Ubuntu Help Page for Grub Recovery.






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      You have to put an Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick and boot from that. After loading the live version of Ubuntu you'll have to chroot into your system and update-grup. Grub will find all your partitions, both Windows and Linux, and you'll be able to choose at boot time again.



      Checkout this Ubuntu Help Page for Grub Recovery.






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        You have to put an Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick and boot from that. After loading the live version of Ubuntu you'll have to chroot into your system and update-grup. Grub will find all your partitions, both Windows and Linux, and you'll be able to choose at boot time again.



        Checkout this Ubuntu Help Page for Grub Recovery.






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        You have to put an Ubuntu ISO onto a USB stick and boot from that. After loading the live version of Ubuntu you'll have to chroot into your system and update-grup. Grub will find all your partitions, both Windows and Linux, and you'll be able to choose at boot time again.



        Checkout this Ubuntu Help Page for Grub Recovery.







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