HELP NEWBIE Pls - "Windows failed to start" error on dual boot system

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royalmp2001,

Report back with some output from terminal commands that may give us a better idea of what may have gone wrong.  Boot into your Linux Lite installation, open a terminal and enter the following commands.

This one lists basic specs of your computer.

Code:

inxi -Fxz

This one lists all partitions on the drive and what type of partition table drive is using.  It will ask you to enter your password.  When you type password, you won't see anything on the screen.  That is normal behaviour -- just type it and hit <Enter> when done.

Code:

sudo parted --list

Using your mouse, highlight entire output of both commands, right-click and pick "Copy", then in your reply here in the forum right-click and choose "Paste".  After pasting into forum reply, highlight the pasted output and hit the "#" button along top of the forum reply interface.  That will enclose the output in a "code box" that makes it easier for us to read and preserves formatting of the output.

If your computer is relatively new and came with Win 8 pre-installed there is a good chance you just ended up installing LL in a different boot mode than what Windows was using.  In such a situation computer will boot into only LL while set to boot in one mode and only Windows when set to boot in the other mode.  The output from commands above will confirm whether or not that is the case and we can figure out how to proceed after seeing that.