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Boot-Repair, simple tool to recover access to your Operating Systems.

• Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )
• Free (GPL open-source license)
• Helpful (Boot-Info diagnose to get help by email or on your favorite forum)
• Safe (automatic backups)
• Reliable (300.000 users per year)
• Can recover access to Windows (XP, Vista, Windows7, Windows8, Windows10, Windows11, Windows12).
• Can recover access to Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux...
• Can recover access to any OS (Windows, MacOS, Linux..) if your PC contains Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSuse, ArchLinux, or derivative.
• Can repair the boot when you have the "GRUB Recovery" error message
• Options to reinstall GRUB2/GRUB1 bootloader easily (OS by default, purge, unhide, kernel options..)
• and much more ! (UEFI, SecureBoot, RAID, LVM, Wubi, filesystem repair...)

GET BOOT-REPAIR: whatever the operating systems installed on your disk,

• boot on a Debian (or derivatives: Ubuntu, Linux Mint...) disk, either normal session, or live-CD, or live-USB. Then install Boot-Repair in it, either via this procedure for Ubuntu/Mint, or via the command below for Debian:

sudo apt install -y wget;
wget -O- https://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair/files/key.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/boot-repair.gpg;
echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/boot-repair.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/yannubuntu/boot-repair/ubuntu noble main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boot-repair.list;
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y boot-repair

• or: boot on a Boot-Repair-Disk. Boot-Repair will be launched automatically.

USE BOOT-REPAIR:
Launch Boot-Repair, then click the "Recommended repair" button. When repair is finished, note the URL (paste.ubuntu.com/XXXXX) that appears on a paper, then reboot and check if you recovered access to your OSs. If the repair did not succeed, indicate the URL to boot.repair@gmail.com in order to get help.
Warning: the default settings of the Advanced Options are the ones used by the "Recommended Repair". Changing them may worsen your problem. Don't modify them before asking advice.

GET HELP: by Email (boot.repair@gmail.com)

HELP THE PROJECT: Translate, Propose patches, donate via Paypal or Liberapay.

DISCLAIMER: Boot-Repair is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty. Please be aware that Boot-Repair writes logs&backups on disks, collects anonymous statistics about its use, and creates Pastebin containing basic system data such as partition labels, UUIDs and mount points.