how to remove mint from win 10 dual boot

RobTi · 26 Apr 2019 at 20:41

Hi so i have been running mint on a dual boot on a shared hard drive, i would like to uninstal it and remove the grub and then i am going to install it on its own drive, now the problem is i never got the grub menu to automatically pop up when starting i always had to do it through F11 and select windows or mint to boot into and i was happy doing it this way.
So can anyone point me in the direction of how to uninstall mint completely ?
Thanks

Rainmaker · 28 Apr 2019 at 23:11

Delete the Mint partition and expand your Windows partition to fill the space - ironically, a Linux live USB is best for this. Then use a Windows install ISO to rebuild/reinstall the Windows boot manager on that drive. Done.

RobTi · 29 Apr 2019 at 10:17

Thanks for the reply I should have said that it was not installed on the os drive so that drive has been resized, but stuck at the grub, I never had it and always hit F11 to give me boot options. So any help on removing it

emu · 29 Apr 2019 at 17:22

https://www.boyans.net/ could give that a try

AmateurExpert · 30 Apr 2019 at 12:29

I assume you can still boot into Windows? If so, try and use the Startup Repair option - go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced startup > Restart now > Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Repair.

RobTi · 1 May 2019 at 20:34

AmateurExpert said:
I assume you can still boot into Windows? If so, try and use the Startup Repair option - go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery > Advanced startup > Restart now > Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Repair.

no still there

RobTi · 5 May 2019 at 07:47

ended up just switching the boot option off

RobTi · 5 May 2019 at 09:50

did a U turn and tried again to remove grub but all the tutorials ask you to delete a dir called ubuntu which i dont have, although pressing F11 i get the option to boot from ubuntu.i have the following in my EFI dir called Z: here

Directory of Z:\EFI

07/02/2019 16:55 <DIR> .
07/02/2019 16:55 <DIR> ..
07/02/2019 16:55 <DIR> Microsoft
30/03/2019 13:53 <DIR> Boot
0 File(s) 0 bytes
4 Dir(s) 71,479,296 bytes free