Windows 10: Going from Ubuntu to Windows - older laptop

Hi there. I purchased a used PC laptop for a family member to play Minecraft on. It was purchased from a local non-profit that accepts donations of computer equipment and then builds updated laptops and desktops from all the parts to sell at a low price and/or donate to community members in-need. It came with Ubuntu and seems to be capable but we're finding that some of the games he wants to play aren't available for Ubuntu. I'm a Mac girl but I have worked on a PC in the past. That said, I'm not super confident with the PC world. I've been watching YouTube videos on how to go about this proce

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Networking issue - Windows and Ubuntu

Went on a short trip, took my Windows 10 laptop, turned off the Ubuntu computer and my wife's Windows 10 computer. When I returned, I turned everything back on and nether Windows computer could see the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS computer. On the Ubuntu computer, Files/Network clicking on Windows Network received "Unable to access location - Failed to retrieve share list from server: No such file or directory" error. Both Windows computers were able to use the Ubuntu before the trip.

Any suggestions?

 

Try Ubuntu?

I can't help but agree with the disliking of the boot menu showing older versions of Ubuntu -I always hated seeing a bunch of Ubuntu OSes with the "other operating systems" (Windows for my triple boot) at the bottom of the list -I had to press the down key about 12 times to get to Windows!

 

Help with dual booting Win 10 and Ubuntu

This is your whole problem. What you should have done is to put GRUB in sdb1 and Windows Manager in sda1 so that Windows Boot Manager is in control.
So what suggested above will not make any difference. GRUB is still in control of booting process.
To fix your problem. You will need to:

1. Move GRUB from sdb to sdb1
   |grub2 - how to move grub boot from one partition to another in linux - Ask Ubuntu
2. Rebuild The Windows Boot Manager ie. create a brand new BCD to boot Windows 10.
3. Once done with steps 1 and 2 above. Windows will not know UBUNTU exists and vice versa.
   Depend on the priority set in the BIOS, it will boot directly into that OS.
   However, you can boot either one from Boot Menu (Using whatever key that your Laptop assigned to: F2, F10....)
   Since I hate Dual Boot and seldom boot into Linux, I will stop here.
   Now, go to step 4 to create dual boot.
4. Use Easy BCD to create an entry for dual boot with UBUNTU. Once done, you should get a nice GUI dual Boot Menu
   and it will boot directly into either Windows or UBUNTU.

Here's the detailed explanation: How can I move windows 10 boot files to another drive to allow linux