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| Thread ID: 137686 | 2014-08-07 10:47:00 | Quick Linux question, or not. | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 1381118 | 2014-08-07 10:47:00 | Just installed Mint 14, 64 bit as a dual boot, with my Vista. Been playing around, with it, for a couple of days and getting bit frustrated. My question is, how does one remove it and restore to Vista only? Thanks, Ian |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381119 | 2014-08-07 11:10:00 | What are you finding frustrating about Linux Mint? | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1381120 | 2014-08-07 11:14:00 | Firstly, make sure you have a live USB of a Linux Distro handy. Boot into it, wipe the HDD partition you have Linux installed on. Then resize your Windows partition to use up the excess space or whatever you want to do. Then, still in the Live USB, open up the terminal and run the command sudo grub-install /dev/sdX - replace x with the correct place for your bootloader, A in 99% of cases. So sudo grub-install /dev/sda Shut down, take out Live USB, boot back into Windows. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1381121 | 2014-08-07 20:51:00 | What I do in this case is boot to windows, open an elevated command prompt and then use bootrec to restore the windows bootloader, this is preferable to Nicks' suggestion, it is faster to boot as it no longer has to boot to grub first. pcsupport.about.com |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1381122 | 2014-08-07 22:49:00 | What are you finding frustrating about Linux Mint? Yesterday, I thought I'd have a play arround when wife out and 2 things stood out. First was trying to set up printer. It finds it, Canon Mf2260 and says downloads drivers. I try to do a test print and says, can't find printer. So I does it again and same result. The second was I have all my documents on a seperate drive. Go into word processor and finds them. Good. Go in again latter and have to search for them, again. Just not sure if it's worth the hassell and frustration. There was a 3rd, but lost it now. I try and remember and let you's know. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381123 | 2014-08-07 22:51:00 | Firstly, make sure you have a live USB of a Linux Distro handy. Boot into it, wipe the HDD partition you have Linux installed on. Then resize your Windows partition to use up the excess space or whatever you want to do. Then, still in the Live USB, open up the terminal and run the command sudo grub-install /dev/sdX - replace x with the correct place for your bootloader, A in 99% of cases. So sudo grub-install /dev/sda Shut down, take out Live USB, boot back into Windows. So that'll replace the windows boot setup? I looked at my system restore and it's deleted all the backups, so can't even restore it.. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381124 | 2014-08-07 23:06:00 | System restore will not rebuild the bootloader, so is irrelevant in this case. The method I have outlined or a session with the recovery console are the only ways to rebuild the master boot record and enable direct booting of Windows, of course if you have a better method...? |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1381125 | 2014-08-07 23:42:00 | System restore will not rebuild the bootloader, so is irrelevant in this case. The method I have outlined or a session with the recovery console are the only ways to rebuild the master boot record and enable direct booting of Windows, of course if you have a better method...? Thanks for the link. I've saved it to my desktop and will check it out. |
ianhnz (4263) | ||
| 1381126 | 2014-08-08 01:44:00 | So that'll replace the windows boot setup? I looked at my system restore and it's deleted all the backups, so can't even restore it.. Basically it'll wipe your Linux setup but keep Grub, my personal preference. If you'd rather replace Grub, then yea, KarameaDave's method is the way to go. |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1381127 | 2014-08-08 01:53:00 | Basically it'll wipe your Linux setup but keep Grub, my personal preference. If you'd rather replace Grub, then yea, KarameaDave's method is the way to go. Whats this Grub? I had a look at website, but still non the wiser???? |
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