#Fix boot loader surface win 10 install#

You can then use the burning utilities in Linux to apply the ISO image to a blank DVD-R.

A Windows 10 ISO can be legitimately downloaded from the Microsoft website. If your computer didn't come with a Windows 10 installation disk, then you will need to acquire one. You will need to restore the bootloader from the Windows 10 installation disk. In which case your Windows 10 boot loader is still right where you left it on the EFI partition. The partition scheme was converted to from GPT to MBR during the installation of Linux.There's no benefit for doing so, and you lose the existing bootloaders stored there. You deleted/formatted the EFI partition during the Linux installation.This would typically happen if the hard drive was migrated from an older computer to your current one. The hard drive was configured for MBR/DOS style partitions (instead of GPT) and you chose not to wipe the drive off and start fresh when Windows 10 was installed.If you've done this, you really need to reinstall Windows 10 fresh anyway.

#Fix boot loader surface win 10 install#

You installed Windows 10 as an upgrade to a previous windows install which was in turn installed on top of a previous windows install going back to at least Windows Vista.

This would only reasonably happen in two ways.

If Windows 10 came on your computer from the manufacturer, then this is not the case.

There are a few circumstances where access to the Windows 10 bootloader would be cut off. Thus, before doing anything else, I suggest you check your boot options in your BIOS and see if Windows 10 isn't still listed as an option. In fairness, your question seems to make the same assumption. I'm afraid Keltari's answer presumes you are using a MBR partition table. In which case it is your BIOS's boot order that decides which bootloader is launched. They can coexist perfectly fine on the EFI partition.

In any normal circumstance the Grub 2 bootloader does not overwrite the Windows 10 bootloader. Neither do modern distributions of Linux. Windows 10 doesn't use the master boot sector by default.