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Can't boot Windows 10 after deleting Linux partition. 2016-11-11 23:23:59 Post No.
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Can't boot Windows 10 after deleting Linux partition. 2016-11-11 23:23:59 Post No.
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Can't boot Windows 10 after deleting Linux partition.
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I may have done something very bad.
Some time ago, I installed Linux Mint because I thought I would use it but no. So today I decided to uninstall it because I needed the disc space, so I looked up a tutorial and it said to delete its partition and then to fix the Windows boot loader. So I deleted the partition and some other small partition I thought I had made for swap memory for Linux. Before that, I had made a recovery drive in a USB because the tutorial said I'd need it to fix the boot loader. So when I deleted the partitions, my PC restarted and it sent me to a grub repair screen with a command line. I tried to make it boot from the USB but it just didn't let me, it said it didn't find any bootable devices. So now I don't know if I fucked up my Windows install, or if recovery drives (created from Control Panel > Recovery) are not supposed to be bootable and I should've used the media creation tool (I was already doing that but it was going very slowly).
In hindsight I see that I should've tried fixing the ñoader before deleting the partition, but the harm's already been done.
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>>218950
You deleted your loader and:
>I deleted the partition and some other small partition I thought I had made for swap memory for Linux
god knows what else. Just use the Windows 10 installation DVD and you will fix it in a minute.
>inb4 I got the free upgrade and got no disc
Tough luck fag.
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>>218996
>EFI partition
Who even uses that? Nobody, you don't need it. It's much more likely that it was the backup partition that comes with the OS factory installation.
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>>219016
Every modern computer that has a GPT disk.
No UEFI, no partition table.
No EFI partition, no UEFI.
I get that it's cozy back in 1994 where stuff made sense and four partitions was enough for everyone and if it wasn't then a partition could be a partition table, but PC BIOS has had its day. EFI is the present, and you're just going to have to get used to it.
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>>219021
Who even uses this stuff? Is this a Wincucks thing? I haven't used a MBR or GPT in nearly a decade, Why do you people need this stuff?
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>>219062
Then you haven't booted a PC or a Mac in nearly a decade.
Old PCs boot by loading an MBR, and current PCs and Macs boot using EFI, which finds its data partition by looking up a GPT.
Which of course you knew, right?
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