I recently installed Ubuntu on a PC that also ran windows and it looks like it failed to detect windows. This post describes the steps to fix this issue.<\/p>\n
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Initially I installed Windows 10 to the first partition on the hard drive and left a space to install Ubuntu. During the installation of Ubuntu I decided to install GRUB to manage the operating systems.<\/p>\n
GRUB is a bootloader which detects what operating systems are installed and lets you pick which to run. However when I checked what operating systems GRUB detected it didn’t find my Windows 10 install. It only let me choose to boot into Ubuntu.<\/p>\n
So that GRUB would find my Windows partition I needed to force it to rescan the partitions. This would then hopefully detect that I have a windows 10 bootable partition. To rescan the partitions GRUB found I ran:<\/p>\n
sudo update-grub<\/b><\/p>\n
After running this I rebooted the machine and found Windows 10 listed.<\/p>\n
Once this had been done I was able to boot into Windows 10 as expected. Normally GRUB will detect windows first time but for unknown reasons this failed the first time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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