Ivan Lozowy

Hello Dave, That was quick. The issue is resolved. Unfortunately, I don't know how. Yesterday my Windows 10 OS underwent an update, from the length of time it took and several restarts I take it this was a big update. After this the Grub loading screen works, every time. Thus, apparently, it wasn't the drive format. Something had glitches somewhere, I'm glad the issue is over, though unfortunately I can't point to the reason for it. I'm also glad that, contrary to my paranoid expectations, the problem...

Dave, the diagnostics file is attached.

Dear Drummer, I installed and ran Grub2Win 2.2.0.5 and it gave a notice that "an external program has...". After Grub2Win completed its changes I did a cold reboot and booted straight into the Grub loading window! However, after that, on the next reboot the computer went straight into Windows. Now that is the current situation, when I run Grub2Win, thereafter the next boot is into Grub, but the boot after that is always into Windows. Now at least I can get into Ubuntu when I want to. I realize that...

Dave, thank you for your help, I am completely out of my depth here, so your ideas were much appreciated. I did learn something and I'll see if I can look for other solutions. Best regards! Ivan

Dave, I did exactly as you instructed, carefully, all from the browsing window opened in the "EFI Update Actions" window. I then cold re-started the computer and it went straight into Windows. I then did a Diagnose, the summary of which is attached, just in case. Also attached is a screenshot of the current EFI directory.

Dave, The efilist.txt file is attached. Ivan

Hello Dave, I deleted the two partitions, sdb2 and sdc2. When I rebooted there was no Grub2Win. When I opened Grub2Win the same window-notice "Your EFI default boot module was changed by an external program ... " appeared, I cliked "Yes" to update. When I rebooted, still no Grub2Win, a direct load into Windows. I Grub2Win, the same window-notice, I clicked "Yes" to update again and did a diagnostics, the summary of which is attached. I noticed that my boot options in BIOS have "UEFI Hard Disk:Windows...

Since I thought it might be useful, I have, in the meantime, done the following. In Windows I ran diagnostics from Grub2Win and the summary is here: 200920 01 (initial state) diagnose.7z I then did a cold restart of my computer and the computer booted into Windows right away, no sign of Grub2Win. I then started up Grub2Win, which gave me the notice "Your EFI default boot module was changed by an external program ... The current module is \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI ..." with the option "Simply...