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Computer boots directly to Windows, Grub not found

Asked by Jean-Francois Cote

Hello:

I have a computer with a dual boot Windows 10 / Ubuntu 16.04. On a boot-up I could choose my operating system with Grub. Now I don't see Grub any more, it loads directly to Windows.

I've looked at the bios, no Grub and no Ubuntu. I've also tried using boot-repair (advice I found on the forum) from a LiveCD of the same version of Ubuntu. I didn’t get the option to repair, only creating a boot info summary :

http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/9KWfBTr4bM/

There are 4 disks in my computer, one for Windows (the small SSD) and three for Ubuntu, one being bootable.

It happened very suddenly, I don't think there was an update or anything of the sort... Has I write this, I think my Ubuntu disk died on me... I checked with Gnome Disk, it only sees three disks... Hoping someone will tell me otherwise.

Can anyone help me ? Please be precise in your recommendations, I have no formal training.

Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Ubuntu 16.04 is end of life next month, you may want to use this as a catalyst to wipe the old OS off and do a clean install of Focal. Focal (Ubuntu 20.04) is LTS and supported 5 years.

In Windows I suggest you reinstate the Windows boot loader then boot to Ubuntu install media and install Ubuntu to the old space you have the old version of Ubuntu installed to

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