After advice from Chris I've created the Windows recovery USB stick from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media and run it choosing the system repair option. I now have a working Windows 8 system on my laptop. Unfortunately, it now boots straight into Windows and doesn't show the GRUB menu. If I press <F9> to get the boot menu I can select from OS Boot Manager Fedora (STT000LM014-1EJ164-SSHD) Boot From EFI File OS Boot Manager takes me into Windows Fedora then shows me the GRUB menu and lets me boot Fedora If I go into the BIOS menu and look at the boot sequence, OS Boot Manager is at the top of the list, but there is no other option that would make the Fedora / GRUB option the default. The full list is: OS boot Manager Internal CD/DVD ROM Drive USB Diskette on key/USB Hard Disk USB CD/DVD Drive Having booted into Fedora I re-ran grub2-mkconfig -o ~/Downloads/grub.cfg hoping that it would now include WIndows, but it still does not. This means that even if I get GRUB to be the default boot loader, I'll lose Windows again. Can anyone suggest where I can go next? //boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot now also contains BCD and BCD.LOG files as well as bootmgfw.efi -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
