Delete grub bootloader

Post by choccomint » Mon Jan 31, pm.

I installed Manjaro on my laptop alongside Windows with an encrypted linux partition and grub bootloader. So I type the partition password after the bios screen and before grub displays. I can then use a utility to merge the recovered disk space into the Windows partition which is my main objective. Then set the Windows bootloader as the first - on some systems you may need to enable secure boot otherwise Windows refuse to load. I meant the Windows 10 preinstalled within the sold laptop or desktop by OEMs.

Delete grub bootloader

Contribute to the Windows forum! March 14, March 11, Ask a new question. I dual booted ubuntu with my windows 11 pc but I don't want my pc to display the grub screen everytime I turn it on and ask for my os choice as I want it to boot directly to windows but when required i can go to boot options by pressing F9 on system startup and run ubuntu. Is it possible? Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. March 14, Contribute to the Windows forum! Top Contributors in Windows March 11, Top Contributors in Windows Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 11 Search Community member.

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Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. This answer borrowed verbatim from here. Enter powershell into the windows search of the start menu. Look for a blue icon with the label " Windows PowerShell ", right click on the that and select "Run as Administrator" within the context menu. You can chose any free drive letter you want.

As such, I prefer to just use Ubuntu where everything runs natively so I can save battery while traveling. When it came time to turn the laptop back in to work I needed to remove GRUB, all of the Ubuntu partitions, and set it back to how it used to be. I also needed to return the now-unused partitions back to Windows to that it could use all the space the drive had available. In theory this is done by booting your computer in to the Windows recovery console by booting in to Windows and then restarting your computer while holding the Shift key. If you get lucky and yours boots as expected then you can skip creating your media and jump to FixMBR. Just follow the instructions on that page to create your media, then boot your computer from the created media. This is done with one easy command. You should see a message that the operation completed successfully. This is written with the assumption that you only have 1 physical harddrive and no special partitions. Doing something wrong here can and will result in data loss.

Delete grub bootloader

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. This answer borrowed verbatim from here. Enter powershell into the windows search of the start menu. Look for a blue icon with the label " Windows PowerShell ", right click on the that and select "Run as Administrator" within the context menu.

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I preferred this solution because I did not want to create a bootable device and it worked perfectly — Efi Kaltirimidou. I think this should be added as step 7. Post by deepakdeshp » Fri Feb 04, am You shouldn't remove grub but can make it invisible. Improve this question. You can vote as helpful, but you cannot reply or subscribe to this thread. Click Troubleshoot. I see, thanks Ramhound. PS: I thought this would help people who are saying that their computer is stuck in a boot loop after that. Do you know what the equivalent command is in Windows 11? When prompted, type y yes and press Enter again.

Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. I installed Ubuntu twice actually onto the same drive.

Links are broken by the way. Shifting the data dump schedule: A proposal. Right-click the partition and delete or reformat it with a Windows filesystem. Installing 2nd distro next to Manjaro while leaving control of bootloader to Manjaro cross-distro question. Please fix step 3 by explaining how to go to command prompt. You should not have to install Ubuntu but can use live installer DVD or flash drive. I have an old laptop with Windows 10 on it it was 8 originally , and it has been through a lot with me. I solved the problem. Learn more about Teams. Our partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI. But in that case, as mikaelrask says, you need a boot manager typically grub, other options exist. Improve this answer. Enter powershell into the windows search of the start menu. The second option is that you want to dual-boot macos and Mint. Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.