hi, i was dual booting mint for the first time on a drive separate from my windows installation, and i even made a specified EFI partition on said drive just to be safe. however, it appears that mint installed the boot files on the same partition as my windows one. i understand to just disconnect my windows drive when i install mint again, but does anyone know how to remove the linux bootloader from my windows partition without messing anything up? thank you
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plucky kiln
hi, i was dual booting mint for the first time on a drive separate from my windo...
you can boot live usb, run sudo nemo in terminal for rootmode file manager. With it, then mount and access the Windows EFI partition, comb thru that partition's folders in the file manager til you find one named 'ubuntu' then delete it. that should be all. After that set your Boot Order in the BIOS for your preferred disk/OS to be at the top priority.
I should mention, from above, you wont see the Windows EFI partition in file manager right away i think
so run the Disks application, pick the windows disk, pick the EFI partition, then click the play button. It will show below, the textual information of where it mounts up to.. visit that exact path with root nemo.
- of course, only do all this AFTER doing a proper install of Mint to the other disk - WITH THE WINDOWS DRIVE REMOVED.