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I recently installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. At first it seemed to work completely fine, restarted, came up with the GRUB and I could access Ubuntu. I think I did that twice. Then I decided to boot up Windows to check that everything there was still in order, but now the GRUB menu does not appear on start up, nor does it seem to appear at all.

To check whether the install still exists, I have tried these things: bcdedit in Administrator mode, which does not come up with anything except the Windows boot. The partition which I saved Ubuntu to shows as completely empty in Disk Management in Windows. Going into BIOS settings in Boot mode to see the options and order in which they are placed. It does not appear there either.

None of them give any indication that Ubuntu is even installed. However, I want to check that I am not misunderstanding this as I am not experienced in this sort of thing and do not want to try to install something on top of what is there. Can anyone tell me if it is normal for the installation to just completely disappear or if it is likely to be able to hide it in this way?

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I have recently installed Ubuntu on a Lenevo laptop. If I reboot from Windows 10 I have to use F12 to get the grub boot menu. When I reboot from Ubuntu I have the Windows 10 option in the grub boot menu.

So I have a workable solution to using my laptop as a dual boot even though the Ubuntu system is invisible during normal start-up. In my case it's even preferable as my children use the Windows 10 and don't need to go through the grub boot window.

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