I removed windows?!

[vi-sual]

I have posted before concerning issues I had with Mint and the general consensus seemed to be that I had to re-install it. So I did, but the loader wasn't working. Somehow I managed to delete windows altogether from my system, even though the linux dist had its own partition and everything.

How is that possible?

[proxima_centauri]

* Moved to Installation & Boot forum from Tutorials & Howtos

Without knowing exactly what steps you took, it is impossible to say.

[Jazzy_jeffaz]

Hard to say what happened. The installation does exactly what you tell it to do.

[odo5435]

When the installer asked where to place Grub, did you allow it to continue with the default option (normally /dev/sda)? It's possible that Grub has been installed somewhere where it doesn't recognise your Windows partition.

If you open a terminal and enter the command

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sudo update-grub

it might help.

[vi-sual]

When the installer asked where to place Grub, did you allow it to continue with the default option (normally /dev/sda)? It's possible that Grub has been installed somewhere where it doesn't recognise your Windows partition.

If you open a terminal and enter the command

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sudo update-grub

it might help.

Yes. Thats it. I tried to place the grub in sda3 where the linux dist was located, but I couldn't log on at all afterwards.

I then placed the grub in /dev/sda and now the only windows bot option is the recovery and if I try to load it I get a white screen with the message "ERROR" in wide red letters.

[odo5435]

I'm probably getting a bit out of my depth here but, according to the last post by the very wise @Vincent Vermeulen who helped me on another matter in this thread, if you enter the following commands

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sudo os-prober

sudo update-grub

Grub should find and then add all your OS's.

HTH

[vi-sual]

I'm probably getting a bit out of my depth here but, according to the last post by the very wise @Vincent Vermeulen who helped me on another matter in this thread, if you enter the following commands

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sudo os-prober

sudo update-grub

Grub should find and then add all your OS's.

HTH

Thank you!

Problem solved.

[chiefjim]

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