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Hey /g/, I was wondering. I installed some linux distributions a few weeks ago on my wangblows pc. I got bored with those distributions so I nuked their partitions and now according to the disk manager I only have wangblows on my pc. However when I went once in the boot manager to boot from a usb with kubuntu on it; I was shown the options to boot from a usb with apricity and a usb with ubuntu. The thing is I only had one usb in my pc (the one with kubuntu on it). Out of curiosity I booted from one of those ghost usb drives and I was shown GRUB. Can someone please explain to me why this happened and how I can remove these ghost usb drives? I thought that if wiping all linux partitions removed all traces of them.
>pic related
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>>57707608
>taking a picture of the screen
>being this retrarded
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You have to mount your EFI partition and delete all the related linux files, thats worked for me.
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>2016
>typing like you're mentally retarded.
Kill yourself.
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>>57707608
Use diskpart and fix your shit
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>>57707705
Thanks, I'll try doing that. Just out of curiosity, what's in those remaining linux files that survived the partition wipes? Is it just GRUB?
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A few years ago you'd be screwed if you simply deleted linux partitions. Windows wouldn't boot until mbr is fixed. Uefi did make life easier for newbies.
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grub is located in the first 100mb of the hard drive, fully format the disk to remove it
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>>57707608
>26th month
Burger spotted
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>>57707767
There are files that efi use for detect other os, in this case when you install a linux distro with efi support the installer adds the efi files for detect the linux distro, if you delete this distro the efi files will still there.
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>>57707788
Thank god my current build is only a year old.
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