[SOLVED] Removing arch linux from dual boot

[lunar kelp]

I'm having dual boot of windows 11 and arch linux.. and removing arch linux

[brisk brook]

what does efibootmgr output on arch

[lunar kelp]

Disk 0 partition 5.. this one to remove right??

[lunar kelp]

I closed arch.. 😭

Should I go back to it again??

[brisk brook]

the fifth one it should be and yes first reboot to arch

[lunar kelp]

Partition 5.. can I remove right now?

Or do something else first?

@Sparkles @ Namsis

[modest trout]

remove the 300GB one

[brisk brook]

not now

you first need to remove the bootloader entry

what does efibootmgr output

[lunar kelp]

Can I try this on windows 11?

Or login in arch

[brisk brook]

no

you need to be in a running linux system

[lunar kelp]

Ok just a sec

[brisk brook]

nvme0n1p4 is particularly scary
because it might or might not be shared with windows

[lunar kelp]

Okk

Help

It's always opening windows 11 after startup

Not going into grub

How to do

😭

@Sparkles @ Namsis

Now what to do??

@modest trout

[modest trout]

uh

what did you do? are you in linux now?

[lunar kelp]

Yes

Efibootmgr

I did

In konsole

@modest trout

[modest trout]

stop pinging me

[lunar kelp]

😭🤕

[modest trout]

do you see the Boot0002? It has "GRUB" next to it, that's your linux efi entry. You need to remove it with efibootmgr:

sudo efibootmgr -b 0002 -B

I was simply looking it up to make sure I was correct

[lunar kelp]

Okk

[modest trout]

after that, you can remove GRUB from your EFI System Partition (ESP) if you want, but I don't think it really matters

[lunar kelp]

I did this

That it right??

[modest trout]

ok, now run efibootmgr again to verify that it doesn't appear

[lunar kelp]

Now its not there

[modest trout]

that's good, that means you deleted it correctly. And your windows boot managers are still there, which is great. Now you can boot back into windows and remove the linux partitions if you want

[lunar kelp]

Okk

[modest trout]

actually,

[lunar kelp]

Thanks

[modest trout]

don't do that just yet

[lunar kelp]

Means

[modest trout]

what is on partition 4?

are there any windows boot entries on it?

[lunar kelp]

Which partition 4??

[modest trout]

in here

[lunar kelp]

/boot one??

[modest trout]

yes

[lunar kelp]

Idk what's that

Isn't of windows??

[modest trout]

that's the EFI System Partition that Linux is using

[lunar kelp]

Oo

[modest trout]

but it may or may not be seperate from the one Windows uses

[lunar kelp]

So what to do?

[modest trout]

if you check the contents of /boot, do you see anything related to windows in there?

[lunar kelp]

How tocheck??

🤕

[modest trout]

you can go into your file manager

or use ls

[lunar kelp]

Then

[modest trout]

... we can skip this for now, I suppose. I don't know exactly what Windows calls its efi file or where in the ESP it is or anything, and you don't seem experienced enough to inspect it in a way that inspires confidence. Out of a concern for safety, we can leave it for now. It can be removed later if it is safe to. You can go into Windows now and delete partition 5

[lunar kelp]

Okk thanks

[brisk brook]

if there is something related to windows it's in FS0:\EFI\Microsoft\

Pascal ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) if you check the contents of /boot, do you see anything related to windows in there?

[modest trout]

noted, thanks

[lunar kelp]

I want to extend C: but can't

Since the unallocated one is not adjacent to it

What to do now

[brisk brook]

oops it's FS0:\EFI\BOOT\Microsoft

Sparkles @ Namsis ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) if there is something related to windows it's in FS0:\EFI\Microsoft\ 📎

[modest trout]

this is windows territory now so I can't help much cause idk how to use windows

[lunar kelp]

Okk

[brisk brook]

windows, unlike what we do with btrfs on linux, wont't let you virtually combine two non-adjacent partitions in one

Pascal ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) this is windows territory now so I can't help much cause idk how to use windows

[modest trout]

ah rip

you'll probably need to make sure partition 4 is safe to delete in that case

[lunar kelp]

So what's that middle one partition??

Of 1gb

[modest trout]

thats the ESP of Linux you were using

I suspect that Windows doesn't use that, but you should check to make sure

[brisk brook]

(the ESP of windows and linux is one and the same)

at least in his setup

[lunar kelp]

What's the last partition then??

Of 1.95gb

[modest trout]

oh? It says there are 2 ESPs

ah, well you know better than I

[brisk brook]

oh wait

[lunar kelp]

Wait that's not visible in pic

[brisk brook]

they are distinct ESPs

sorry

[modest trout]

no worries

[brisk brook]

then you can nuke one of the two

[lunar kelp]

See now

The last one

[brisk brook]

what you do now is doing mountvol /s Q: in an admin cmd

[modest trout]

do you see the 1GB partition to the left of the one you just deleted? That's the one you want to delete, but you should make sure it's safe to do so first

i.e. it doesn't have the windows bootloader on it

[brisk brook]

the one that does not get attached to a drive letter will be the linux ESP

Sparkles @ Namsis ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) what you do now is doing mountvol /s Q: in an admin cmd

[lunar kelp]

How to make sure that?

[brisk brook]

mountvol /s

it attaches one of the two ESPs

[lunar kelp]

Parameters incorrect

[brisk brook]

swap /s and Q

[lunar kelp]

Wait

It showed something

Lemme send

[brisk brook]

pick an unused drive letter of your choice

I usually use Q because that's what is unused on my system

[lunar kelp]

z?

[brisk brook]

sure

mountvol Z: /s

[lunar kelp]

okk

done

[brisk brook]

one of the two partitions should be assigned a letter now

[lunar kelp]

no

its the same

[brisk brook]

can you at least dir Z:\

[lunar kelp]

wait

[brisk brook]

the windows one is likely the first one

[lunar kelp]

it showing here.. Z:/

😐

[brisk brook]

that is your ESP

you need to keep that one

does disk management show a partition attached to Z now

[lunar kelp]

no

[brisk brook]

aw :<

there should not be anything related to grub in Z:\

[lunar kelp]

Z:/ which is showing here...

it was never like these ever...

I have installed deleted many time.. linux

but happened before

liek this

[brisk brook]

ya you want to delete the 4th partition

the first one belongs to windows

the fourth one belongs to linux

[lunar kelp]

which one can i delete??

[brisk brook]

search for grub in Z

Z is the first one

you delete the fourth one

[lunar kelp]

how

[brisk brook]

via file explorer

[lunar kelp]

found none

[brisk brook]

then you can delete the fourth one

[lunar kelp]

disk 0 partition 4.. right?

[brisk brook]

right.

[lunar kelp]

is it safe??

I can't afford losing data :\

[brisk brook]

they dont hold data

both partition 1 and partition 4 hold nothing that is not related to boot

[lunar kelp]

oops.. can't

[brisk brook]

aw

[lunar kelp]

T-T

[brisk brook]

diskpart should help

[lunar kelp]

what to do

tell commands

[brisk brook]

if you have sudo, sudo diskpart
if you dont have sudo, cmd as admin -> type diskpart

[lunar kelp]

yes done diskpart

now

[brisk brook]

select disk 0

[lunar kelp]

then

[brisk brook]

list partition

(that is the command)

[brisk brook]

we want to delete partition 4

select partition 4

delete partition

[lunar kelp]

wait

whats offset 300gb of it?

😐

[modest trout]

its just 300GB from the start of the drive

[brisk brook]

approximately 300 GB worth of partitions precede it

[lunar kelp]

okk

[brisk brook]

aaa

[lunar kelp]

:\

what to do

[brisk brook]

i dont know

[lunar kelp]

T-T

can we revert things?

[brisk brook]

not much

you didnt delete part 4 by the way

[lunar kelp]

like.. i don't like this seeing Z:

[brisk brook]

unmount it

[lunar kelp]

and in starting also.. there wasn't particular partion like this

[brisk brook]

it was to check which partition was used by windows and which one is not

[lunar kelp]

how to??

unmount

[lunar kelp]

okk

[brisk brook]

and you want to delete partition 4

Sparkles @ Namsis ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) you didnt delete part 4 by the way

[lunar kelp]

yea ik

btw i once tried some app.. which used to extend partition by shifting.. something like this

i would use that

to extend C:/

[brisk brook]

mountvol /p Z: it should be

[lunar kelp]

okk

[brisk brook]

it's d not p

[lunar kelp]

okk

[brisk brook]

also a reboot should unmount Z

❱❭ Hemant ❭❱ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) okk

[lunar kelp]

ig I would reboot then

since it also didn't work

[brisk brook]

windows is particularly annoying to administer

[lunar kelp]

T-T

[lunar kelp]

hey

how to

not have this

since its kinda annoying to see every day

it was never before ever

@Sparkles @ Namsis

[strange mulch]

@lunar kelp why are you removing arch?

[lunar kelp]

It's of zero use for me.. and I wanted to increase by windows 11 storage by 300gb which I allocated to arch linux when installing

[brisk brook]

wait

❱❭ Hemant ❭❱ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) since its kinda annoying to see every day

do the same mountvol /s command

[lunar kelp]

mountvol Z: /d
worked ✅

[brisk brook]

did you succeed in nuking arch altogether by now

❱❭ Hemant ❭❱ ↩️

[Reply to:](#1380463624103133235 message) mountvol Z: /d
worked ✅

[lunar kelp]

yess

[strange mulch]

... solved

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[lunar kelp]

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[Solved] Removing arch linux from dual boot

[SOLVED] Removing arch linux from dual boot

thanks to everyone who all helped..