#Remove grub windows 10 how to#

To make it possible to copy-and-paste, for those who might need to, IвЂ™ve provided the commands in the code block after the last image. Figure 1 show the commands (underlined) used to accomplish the first step вЂ“ listing and selecting the hard drive. Then right-click on the terminal applicationвЂ™s icon and select run as administrator.

To start, log into Windows 10, click on the menu and type cmd. This answer is for those with UEFI who have deleted the Ubuntu partitions before removing grub. After a couple of welcome screens and language choice there is an option to repair. Remove the second hard drive with Linux on it. Another reason you might want to do this, is if you deleted the Linux partitions, which would not automatically delete the GRUB files from the Boot EFI folder. Linux basically destroys the Windows MBR placing GRUB instead and whats worse, GRUB stays even if you uninstall Linux. It involved, from the command line, listing and selecting the detected hard drives, listing the partitions on the hard drive, then, finally, listing and deleting the target folder.

#Remove grub windows 10 how to#

Ultimately, it didnвЂ™t, but I figured out how to delete GRUB files from inside Windows 10, from the command line. So I thought that If I could just delete the ubuntu folder from the Boot EFI folder, that the installation would complete вЂ“ successfully. After several failed attempts to dual-boot Ubuntu 15.04 and Windows 10 on a single hard drive and on a computer with UEFI firmware, and not knowing what caused the first failed attempt, I figured that subsequent failed attempts must have been due to an existing Ubuntu GRUB folder in the Boot EFI folder.Д®specially since the machine always froze when the installer is attempting to install GRUB