Hello all,
I recently thought it would be a good idea to install Kali on a second partition of my laptop as I am trying to learn network security / pen testing.
Everything went fine at beginning, boot onto the live USB and install the thing. After it is all installed (including GRUB bootloader) I can no longer boot windows, no worries though, this is a common thing and a seemingly easy fix.
I cant remember teh exact solution, but it was using testDisk and fixing the MBR.
After doing this, I restart and can no longer boot into either Kali or Win 8.
I get an
"An operating system wasn't found. try disconnecting any drives that dont contain an operating system.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
I have tried booting onto a recovery drive, and running startup repair. This did not work (get windows was unable to repair..."
I have tried bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /fixbcd bootrec /scanos
the last to return that 0 windows installs were found.
I have tried Boot-repair-disk which did not work, but seems to have gathered some valuable info:
paste.ubuntu.com/6829829
paste.ubuntu.com/6829838
I have a debian (Kali) live USB that I can boot into and connect to internet with, and a working win 8 recovery USB.
its fine if I lose the kali partition with repairs, but would hate to loose my windows as I have a ton of school/work things on there and it would be a huge pain to have to backup/restore those first.
Also, I have 2 different hardrives, a 1tb internal HDD that came with laptop (home of Kali), and a kingston SSD that houses my windows 8
windows recovery and live usb are on 2 different USBs.
The SSD that houses my windows partition is easily removable, the internal HDD is not.
If you need more info, please let me know.
I recently thought it would be a good idea to install Kali on a second partition of my laptop as I am trying to learn network security / pen testing.
Everything went fine at beginning, boot onto the live USB and install the thing. After it is all installed (including GRUB bootloader) I can no longer boot windows, no worries though, this is a common thing and a seemingly easy fix.
I cant remember teh exact solution, but it was using testDisk and fixing the MBR.
After doing this, I restart and can no longer boot into either Kali or Win 8.
I get an
"An operating system wasn't found. try disconnecting any drives that dont contain an operating system.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"
I have tried booting onto a recovery drive, and running startup repair. This did not work (get windows was unable to repair..."
I have tried bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot bootrec /fixbcd bootrec /scanos
the last to return that 0 windows installs were found.
I have tried Boot-repair-disk which did not work, but seems to have gathered some valuable info:
paste.ubuntu.com/6829829
paste.ubuntu.com/6829838
I have a debian (Kali) live USB that I can boot into and connect to internet with, and a working win 8 recovery USB.
its fine if I lose the kali partition with repairs, but would hate to loose my windows as I have a ton of school/work things on there and it would be a huge pain to have to backup/restore those first.
Also, I have 2 different hardrives, a 1tb internal HDD that came with laptop (home of Kali), and a kingston SSD that houses my windows 8
windows recovery and live usb are on 2 different USBs.
The SSD that houses my windows partition is easily removable, the internal HDD is not.
If you need more info, please let me know.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8.1 / Kali