Ubuntu instability

[Peter Smout]

On 31/08/13 20:09, Grant Hardy wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>> There's a second Windows recovery command you could try, according to
>> this:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestoreUbuntu/XP/Vista/7Bootloader
>>
>> it's
>>
>> bootrec /fixboot
>>
>> The page recommends using both.
> Sadly, this doesn't fix my bootloader either although it claims to have
> completed successfully. I'm quite baffled.
>> Do you know if the computer has UEFI firmware or a BIOS? I have little
>> experience with UEFI but I believe it complicates matters considerably...
> It has BIOS firmware. I guess there's the chance that one of my Windows
> partitions got damaged, but I don't think that's the case. My primary
> partition (with my Windows installation and data) is BitLocker protected,
> though I don't seem to be able to unlock it from WindowsRE. If I could, I
> was thinking of trying to suspend protection on the drive then let the
> computer do an automatic repair, but as I say I can't unlock it from the RE
> so I'd like to try fixing the bootloader first.
>
> Grant
>
Hi,

Don't know if it will work for you but,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair/  has saved me on numerous
occasions (both windows & linux)!
One note of warning AFAIK it wont do UFEI yet, but has recovered my
systems on numerous occasions.

Hope it works for you

FWIW I am really disappointed  to hear Orca is not working for you,
although I have no need of it, I did try it out once on 10.04 (lucid)
and was very impressed, this is obviously a backward step! I hope the
devs give this the priority it deserves.

Regards

Peter Smout