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Formated Dual booted Linux partition, boot problem

Hello, I have problem with boot.
I formated Linux Mint partition (dual booted with windows 10) , and now I cant enter windows becose of boot loader problem, when I power up I still have grub (at least some of it).What I get is this:

error: unknown filesystem.

Entering rescue mode...

grub rescue>

Shud also be said I formated it to ntfs (I thought i will just format it and add space to D: when I boot windows),didnt know grub will staysomehow.
Any ideas how to fix this ?

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1. You getting the error because grub is installaed on the primary partition before the windows boot sector. Even if you formarted the Linux Mint partition GRUB is still installed.

 

2. Just use Windows Rescue. Boot from the windows installation media and look for a repair function (I'm not familiar with windows 10 so cannot say if there is one)

 

use this as base (Windows 8.1) -> http://askubuntu.com/questions/429610/uninstall-grub-and-use-windows-bootloader

 

3. Here is a video of what todo ->

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