where do I find the Boot repair Utility

If you have "fast boot" enabled that may have caused your issue with win10 failing to boot. Make sure you disable it before doing a fix or you may find yourself in the same situation again.

Ok give it a go when I get a chance. Many thanks

Hey mikeh9,

I see yancek has already answered this question and pointed you to Boot Repair. Know that it is also available as a stand-alone Live SO from SourceForge.

Let us know how it goes !

Cheers,

The above comment is what you need to do first.

If you need to resort to Boot Repair Utility, then be careful what info you reveal about your system on the net.

If you use sourceforge, then at least read this info about it on Wikipedia

You have a simple problem. I don't think you need to install 3rd party apps from sourceforge.

It's your decision

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so to add to that-- 40_custom in /etc/grub.d is used to add boot menu for other OSes when grub is not picking them up.

Hi trumpforprez,

I agree with you that using Boot Repair is recommended after having had no success with more specific intervention, as your suggestion for updating grub.

I am curious, however, where you go when you need a live ISO of Boot Repair, if not SourceForge ? My understanding is that this is the most common repository. I've also seen links to Softpedia, but less commonly ...

Cheers :-)

who's suggestion?

super grub2 burned to USB Stick searches all active boots and if you cannot get into windows from that chances are you destroyed it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/supergrub2/

you can try to get a recovery disk for windows and fix your boot record then lose grub and have to deal with installing that again. are you sure windows is still there even?

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lol ... A thousand apologies, BW-userx ... missed that. >> Your << suggestion, and as previously mentioned, a good one.

Cheers :-)

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first of all I would like to thank each and every one of you who have posted a reply for me on this question.
But I have finally decided that the best course and the easiest for me is to wipe the slate clean. and start again.

So the plan is for me to back up all my data.
Because I have only had Mint for about a week. an because I backed up my data from windows before I loaded Mint. I have only a weeks worth of data to back up now would be a good time to do it.
The simplest way is to put the Mint dvd back in and reinstall under complete install.
So hopefully be able to do it next week sometime when I get a chance.
Thanks again for all the help you have given let you know how it goes.

Glad we were able to help. Have an enjoyable experience with Mint and feel free to return anytime.

Cheers,

Yeah that's what I tend to do, start a fresh.

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