REMOVE DUPLICATE WINDOWS BOOTLOADER WINDOWS 10

If you make a mistake, you may harm a needed bootloader. Warning: Please select correct extraneous boot entry for removal. Issue the following command to remove entry 2: $ sudo efibootmgr -b 2 -B # where 2 is the boot entry Boot0002. Issue the following verbose command : $ sudo efibootmgr -v # issue this verbose command You will see the following similar output: BootCurrent: 0001īoot entry 2 should be removed. Open up terminal by hitting Ctrl+Alt+T and run following command to show boot entries: $ sudo efibootmgr Now restart computer and login into Ubuntu system. To make sure that ubuntu has been removed, issue dir command again: DISKPART>dir /BĮxit from diskpart command. To remove it issue the following command: DISKPART>rmdir /S ubuntu Now, list the contents of directory efi and you will see a folder in the name something like ubuntu. You will obeserve a folder EFI in the list, issue the command to cd to EFI: DISKPART>cd /d efi

Now list the contents by dir command DISKPART>dir /B Now issue cd to 'g' drive, by this command DISKPART>cd /d g: DISKPART>sel vol 3Īfter it has been identified and selected, you assign it an unused drive letter to make it easier to work with. If you make a mistake, you may harm the selected partition (volume). Warning: Please select correct volume based on the above input. Now find out partition (volume) with label EFI and System in the info column. Now list the partitions in the disk, so that the partition (volume) that corresponds to the Boot EFI folder can be identified. Now select the target disk which contains Windows installation. Issue the following commands to list available disks: DISKPART>list disk Press Windows + X and select Command Prompt (Admin) and run diskpart command. The answer is split into two sections such as Section-1 (The action at Windows-10) and Section-2 (The action at Ubuntu side). For screenshots, please refer above post (Part-IV).

REMOVE DUPLICATE WINDOWS BOOTLOADER WINDOWS 10

I am reproducing Part-IV of my answer from the post Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu on Separate SSD in order to answer this current post. Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512Bġ 17.4kB 16.8MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftresĢ 16.8MB 512GB 512GB Basic data partition msftdataġ 1049kB 473MB 472MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diagĢ 473MB 577MB 104MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, espģ 577MB 593MB 16.8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftresĤ 593MB 499GB 499GB Basic data partition msftdata

Number Start End Size File system Name Flagsġ 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B How do I remove the ubuntu (SATA6G_2: WDC WD10EZEX-22MFCA0) option? And is this possible without having to run any kind of boot repair programs? I don't want to risk losing my BitLocker encrypted Windows.ĮDIT: Here is the output of sudo parted -l from Ubuntu side. And looking at the partitions, I can see an EFI partition on the Windows SSD now.īoth Ubuntu options load to the same GRUB screen, so I want to get rid of the one on the SSD. So to me it looks like GRUB was installed on both disks. During Ubuntu installation, I picked 'Something Else' and chose the /dev/sda which was the HD disk.Īfter all that, here is what my UEFI BIOS sees. My intent was to have Windows 10 on the Samsung SSD and Ubuntu on the WDC HD. After installing Ubuntu again (after failed 18.04 update), I am now in a state where I think I have two GRUB installs.

Remove duplicate windows bootloader