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

  • Easy-to-use (repair in 1 click ! )
  • Gratis (free of charge)
  • 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
  • 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...)

Boot-Repair main menu

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

  • boot on a Boot-Repair-Disk disk, either USB or DVD. Boot-Repair will be launched automatically.
  • or boot on an Ubuntu (or derivative) disk, either USB or DVD. Install Boot-Repair in it, via the command below.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y boot-repair && boot-repair
  • or boot on a Debian (or derivative) disk, either USB or DVD. Install Boot-Repair in it via the commands below.
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 resolute main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/boot-repair.list;
sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

HOW TO USE BOOT-REPAIR:
Launch Boot-Repair, then click the "Recommended repair" button. When repair is finished, note the URL (for example paste.ubuntu.com/xxxxx) that appears on a paper, then reboot and check if you recovered access to your operating systems. If the repair did not succeed, indicate the URL in your OS support forum 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. Do not modify them before asking advice.

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. 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.

Boot-Repair advanced options
Boot-Repair GRUB reinstall
Boot-Repair GRUB options
Boot-Repair MBR options
Boot-Repair other options
Boot-Repair purge example