I want to edit my Clover boot entries from within Windows 10 to add back my linux mint listing in clover. I could boot my Linux Mint from clover until I was forced to reinstall my Linux mint instance (moved to Linux Mint 20 [Ulyana], at which point it disappeared from Clover's boot menu items list. As I can no longer access my Linux Mint installation, i find my self stack i Windows.
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Here is what I do:   restart machine with Windows 8.1 determine "EFI System" partition with the Disk Management utility run command prompt as administrator type diskpart type select disk 0 then select partition 2 then assign open windows explorer windows+e refresh if the drive is not showing F5 try to open drive by double clicking   What I expected to happen:  I can at least look at my EFI partition files.  What happened:    after clicking continue    after clicking "security tab" link, no security tab    What do I need to do to access my EFI partition on Windows 8.1?
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I want to boot Ubuntu into recovery mode but there is no grub menu entry allowing me to do so. I pressed e and now I am able to edit boot options. It looks like that:  setparams 'Ubuntu , with Linux 3.6.0-26-generic'  recordfail gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos5)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root &lt;uuid&gt; linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-26-generic root=&lt;uuid&gt; ro ipv6.disable=1 quirt splash $vt_handoff initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-26-generic   The  documentation says:     Boot to the recovery mode even if it is not listed on the menu:         Remove existing kernel options from the linux line and add single      But this sentence doesn't make any sense, maybe the wiki page is broken somehow. How to modify the boot menu to boot directly into recovery mode?  Note: I don't have access to grub config or anything else, only the boot menu edit page is available.
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What's the difference between installing Linux alongside Windows and installing it on a separate partition?  I already have data on Windows and other partitions that I don't want to lose.
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I mistakenly deleted  the /boot folder from my filesystem, rebooted, and all I get now is this:  error: file '/boot/grub/i368-pc/linux.mod' not found.  grub rescue&gt;
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I have absolutely no experience with Linux, and I desperately need to get my computer back up and running again with Windows.  How do I remove Ubuntu and reinstall Windows?    Editor's note: many of the answers are about removing Ubuntu from dual-boot but keeping Windows (which is a bit complicated), while other answers are about removing Ubuntu from single-boot (which is easy: basically just format the disk while installing Windows). The question as written is ambiguous between dual-boot or single-boot.
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I am already dual booting windows 10 with Linux Mint, and I am trying to replace Mint with Ubuntu. I have already created a bootable usb for Ubuntu.  When I try to install Ubuntu, I don't see any option to install Ubuntu alongside windows 10. Rather, I see "install Ubuntu alongside Linux Mint". I didn't find any option to keep my windows 10. How can I replace Mint with Ubuntu in this dual boot system? Mint is installed on an ext4 partition and I have a Linux swap partition.
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What kind of support do they receive from Canonical or/and Ubuntu community? Who decides a distro should become official flavour? What privileges do "official flavours" have over unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Deepin OS,etc.?
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I set up Windows 10 and have been using it for months on a spare laptop.  When installing, I did not use a Microsoft account to enable all of the app connectivity because I don't need that functionality.  I do not want these features active on this device, and I used a simple user name during the install.  Everything was going fine until I read about the Linux/bash features that are available in the anniversary update.  I decided to try them out and entered my Microsoft Insider credentials to enable the features in the developer options of the Control Panel.  I didn't realize the primary account on this device would now become linked to that Microsoft account.  Is there a simple way to disassociate the Microsoft account from the local account, or are they now linked forever in an unholy union?  I can set up a new local account, but I'd rather not lose all the settings and folder preferences prior to my gaffe.
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A few days ago, I accidentally replaced my desktop in Mint 18 with a virtual console with an errant keystroke. Not having an obvious way to reverse the changes, I logged in and typed exit to exit the console and go back to the desktop. Instead, the computer rebooted, and I lost God-only-knows-how-much unsaved work.  After showing the Mint logo and flashing a message underneath it far too quickly to read, the computer now boots only to a black screen. By pressing esc during reboot, I can get to a Startup Menu. I ran disk checks and memory checks using it, and they all came up clean. None of the other options in this menu help. I have no idea what to do.  The screen is clearly receiving power, and the black screen that it boots to shows a dash or underscore in the top right corner.  How do I get my computer back? It's an HP Pavilion laptop.
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I searched the Internet for instructions on how to remove , but the only thing I could find was using a Windows DVD to "repair" the system. I previously had a Windows/Linux doal-boot and removed Windows ( + ), but GRUB is still installed with only one entry: the Linux one.  How can I uninstall GRUB and directly boot on a -based OS?
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What is the most stable and easiest way to get readable access of linux partitions in windows?   All software and drivers I´ve found seem to have been dead/inactive for at least 4 years.  Native access is a plus.  Os: Windows 8.1
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I have a dual boot setup:   Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Windows   Currently when I want to reboot from Ubuntu into Windows I use grub-reboot with the appropriate number as argument. This works well.  However sometimes Windows needs a reboot so a certain program can install or update and I manually have to select the right grub boot menu entry. Is there a similar way (from Windows UI) to tell grub which entry to boot?  I suppose the grub-reboot command passes the argument to a file which is in turn read by grub upon reboot.  edit (concerning my selected answer): I'm currently looking into mounting the ext4 drive that contains /boot and scripting the edit. this will possibly take quite a while since i'm doing this in my free time beside my 40h/week non-tech job. ^^
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I've just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.1 on my partitioned laptop that has Ubuntu 14.04 installed. Grub no longer appeared on boot so I ran boot-repair from an Ubuntu liveUSB. This didn't seem to have any effect. I've checked and secure boot is still disabled. Log from boot-repair:  So what's next?  Update: I've attempted to use chroot to update grub from my Ubuntu partition. update-grub runs successfully finding both linux and windows boot manager but the process still doesn't have any effect. grub-install complains that it cannot find EFI directory (but I have mounted everything correctly).  Update2: Just discovered that running efibootmgr after chroot into ubuntu shows ubuntu as not being in the boot order at all. I manually changed the order and rebooted to discover that the bootorder was reset. I run in windows: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\shimx64.efi But this has no effect either even after reporting 'Operation Successful'.
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I've got a swap partition, but the System Monitor in Linux Mint says, 'Swap not available'. I guess I've forgot to set 'Use as: swap' on install.  How to fix this?
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With regards to Plymouth --  Are there alternative boot screens available?  What's the easiest way to change the boot screen?
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Currently, my computer is dual-booting Linux and Windows 7. A series of unfortunate events has led to me needing to restore Windows using a restore disc.  I want to know if this can be done without formatting my entire hard drive, as I don't want to get rid of my Linux partition. That is, I want to reset Windows - which already has a partition on my hard drive - without affecting any of my other partitions on my drive.
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I am setting up a dual booting headless Linux / Windows machine. I mostly want the machine to always boot up to Ubuntu, except for occasionally when I need to test something in windows.  I've installed Windows and Ubuntu, and currently it boots up to Ubuntu every time. I would like to be able to tell it to boot to Windows on the next boot only and then when I restart from Windows have the system return to booting Ubuntu.  I found  but I am using Ubuntu 14.04 server which has the newer version of grub. From what I've read, I need to make some changes to /etc/default/grub and use sudo grub-set-default when I want to boot to Windows.  I think those changes start with adding this to /etc/default/grub:  GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=false   Anytime changes are made to /etc/default/grub I know that I need to then run sudo update-grub and which results in:  Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-43-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-32-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.13.0-32-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found Windows 7 (loader) on /dev/sda1 done   Since Windows is the 7th option in that list I believe I would run sudo grub-set-default 6 (0 based counting) - is this correct and is there a different method to get a numbered list of boot choices after the system is already booted?  Also, are the lines in /etc/default/grub sufficient to achieve this behavior or do I need to add additional configuration?