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Do you have room at the end of windows to create an efi partition? you should be able to use windows disk manager to reduce the size of the windows partition to make room for an efi parttition.
okay then scratch that I was going by the efi boot sys. I'm glad you didn't listen to me. Using the lubuntu live cd will it let you run apt-get install grub-pc to the lubuntu filesystem? If so then mount /dev/sda5 to /mnt then you should be able to run grub-install --force --target=i386-pc --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda. The only other thing that might work is to get a 32 bit live cd and try to reinstall grub from it.
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 01-18-2016 at 03:11 PM.
Anyway colourpurple21859, well, when it comes for hardware and partitioning I know as little as you can imagine, and I don't know what efi boot sys is, but your istructions l8er reported no error, so I'm going to reboot, and tell you what happened.
Sorry for making you rage, when I become anxious I am quite not bearable...
The same as always:
1. Trying to boot to my hard drive fails
2. Redirects me to boot menu, where I have to choose from an empty floppy or an empty cd rom or my hard drive
3. I choose the hard drive
4. It redirects me back to the boot menu.
Loop....
N. I hard shutdown my PC by using the power key.
N+1. I boot back to Lubuntu Live.
I did a little research and there is way to convert back to mbr using gdisk from the live cd. I don't know how it really works as I only tested it in a vmware enviroment. Would suggest revert partition layout back to original from any changes that has been made since the coversion to gpt then from live cd
gdisk /dev/sda
r #gdisk goes into recovery mode
g #converts gpt to mbr
w #write partition table
exit from gdisk reboot and mount /dev/sda5 to /mnt and then grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda
Last edited by colorpurple21859; 01-19-2016 at 05:13 AM.
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