Messed up boot loader while dual booting

Hey guys,
I have a y410p with windows 8 on it. I recently installed a debian based linux alongside windows so I can dual boot them.
This required me to also add Grub to the the disk. But grub was in legacy mode and i had problems booting up win8. So, I used boot-repair to try to fix it, but it seems to have gotten worse.
Everything is messed up at this point, the mbr, uefi, grub, everything.
Are there any tools I can use to fix this?
Any advice?

tokamocha wrote:
Hey guys,
I have a y410p with windows 8 on it. I recently installed a debian based linux alongside windows so I can dual boot them.
This required me to also add Grub to the the disk. But grub was in legacy mode and i had problems booting up win8. So, I used boot-repair to try to fix it, but it seems to have gotten worse.
Everything is messed up at this point, the mbr, uefi, grub, everything.
Are there any tools I can use to fix this?
Any advice?You can try the OKR recovery button and see if you can restore the unit to factory condition. That is power down the unit. Press the Novo button and select System recovery from the presented menu. The select restore to initial condition.

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