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please could you help, I recently installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my windows 10 machine without configuring the UEFI settings on windows,upon installing ubuntu I opted for something-else in the installation menu as not to format or loose my windows files and documents,

I then created a 40 Gig partition in which to run Ubuntu 18.10, everything went fine or so I thought until I restarted the machine and realized that i could no longer boot into windows nor did I get an option as to boot into Windows or Ubuntu, but instead Ubuntu would just load on start-up.

Basically I can no longer boot into Windows after the installation and am extremely worried and stressed as all my important files and documents are on the windows OS, as a matter of fact I hadn't imported nor saved any of my files to the Ubuntu OS which is currently file-less,

furthermore i did try a command in the terminal as see if Grub would fix my boot problem regarding my windows OS which did not solve the problem, i further tried to view the available partitions in the terminal however my windows partitions would not show,this is what lsblk returns in the terminal

e@E-PC:~$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk 
└─sda1   8:1    0 298.1G  0 part /
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  
e@E-PC:~$

PLEASE could you help me, I really need to recover and use the files on my windows OS.

Organic Marble
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Elvis C
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if you run gparted, does it still show the ntfs partition? If it is still entact, you may not have lost anything and can possibly use a second hard drive to install and recover your files. If that works, it may simply be a BIOS setting to boot to UEFI verses legacy. I had this happen when creating a dual boot, but the problem was that the USB was not compatible with the partition that windows was in, so it created Ubuntu as a legacy partition

Kevin C
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