Hera Grub issue (MBR)

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  1. Breeze85

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    Hi,

    so I have this old laptop I didn't use anymore (Lenovo 100S). I wanted to play a bit and spark new life into it. So I installed Elementary on it. Not knowing much about Linux I installed it over Win10 (and formating the whole drive while doing it). Elementary works fine but I wanted to isntall Win10 in dual boot. The problem is that Grub does not show the USB with Win10 (and other distors for that matter I've tried Ubuntu and Mint with no luck). I've copied the iso Win10 file with rufus (tried both MBR and GPT, no luck). Ive read on most forums that this can be fixed by restoring the grub or by restoring the MBR, using either the boot repair app or lilo in the terminal. I have tried all the options I could find... No luck. At this point the laptop does not recognize the bootbale usb in boot menu.

    For a better understanding here are all the partitions as shown in gparted:

    /dev/mmcblk1p1 -- EFI System Partition -- fat32 -- /boot/efi (mount point) -- 512.00MiB (size) -- 9,75MiB (used) -- 502.,25MiB (unused) -- boot esp

    /dev/mmcblk1p2 -- (no name) -- ext4 -- 512.00MiB (size) -- 9,75MiB (used) -- 502.,25MiB (unused) -- boot esp

    unallocated --1MiB

    I know I might be all over the place because I am since I can't seem to locate the problem.
    Anything helps at this point. I can't seem to find a way either to reisntall only windows on the leptop or both in dual mode.
     

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