![]() I'll leave this post up as a memento to the mistake I made, and hopefully at least one person won't make the same mistake. Update: The magic command that unfuckulated it was: "bootsect /nt60 ALL /force" This seemed risky, so I'm going to view it as a last-ditch measure. One thing I haven't tried that I saw was to start a Windows installation and terminate it when it was done copying system files. The Windows partition is intact, but I can't seem to find any solution to restoring the MBR. As for my hardware, my problem machine has an AMD processor and 64 bit architecture. Some of what I read talked about changing around UEFI mode for booting and ACHI for SATA, but from what I saw, all of my settings were already as they should be. I also saw this article, and none of the procedures changed the result. Deleting the linux /boot partition that I had put there didn't change any of the prior results. I have also spent some time working with GParted. "BOOTREC /SCANOS" - This also finds the OS "BOOTREC /REBUILDBCD" - It finds the OS, then element not found again. When I have used the command prompt, this is the result of the various things I've entered: When I load the Windows 8.1 repair disk from my USB drive, the startup repair does exactly jack shit. I've spent about 4 hours reading tons of blogspam and forum posts from people with vaguely the same problem, so I'll share my findings. Anyway, everything that preceded the Windows partition has been wiped is the bottom line. I decided to delete the ~350 MB bit of space that precedes my Windows installation, since maybe Grub would play ball if it were installed there, I thought. Other error messages would be Element not found when you perform bootrec /fixboot, or 'The system cannot found' when run 'bootrec /fixmbr' in Diskpart. After reading a lot of blog-spam and downloading more distros than I care to recall, I still couldn't boot anything Linux. The requested system device cannot be found error. I had wanted to dual boot Windows and Linux on my SSD. I've been shitting around with this for about 7 hours, and I'm almost to the point of reformatting the drive.
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