I had a broken Windows install with my LM install, so I repartitioned and made a fresh Windows second boot. I deleted the 512MB partition thinking that it only handled the Windows boot record. I was apparently wrong. So I still have a completely intact LM partition, just it's not accessible at the moment. Is there a way to recover this? To add it to the bootable partitions? Or do I just have to reinstall LM?
#Accidentally deleted GPT I think?
minor chasm
runic flame
Yes, you can boot-repair. It should create a new EFI partition and install Grub. You can do that from the Mint live medium.
The thing you removed is called the ESP = EFI System Partition. It has the bootloader(s), and yes, it can be shared between operating systems, although MS does not like to share.
vale herald
I believe you need to remake the ESP manually, before running boot-repair app on the live USB. you can do that also from the live USB by using gparted app to make a small (100 - 200 MB) Fat32 partition, then manage flags on it, add the ESP flag.
minor chasm
I believe you need to remake the ESP manually, before running boot-repair app on...
Yeah, I tried the tool and it didn't work, it errored out. Do you know how to remake the ESP, or can you link me to a tutorial? I tried Googling but couldn't find anything.
vale herald
follow what i wrote above