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So I wanted extra space on my Windows 10 partition which shared a hard drive with Ubuntu 14. Like a stupid idiot, I ignored the boot issues warnings Gparted was screaming at me. I deleted Ubuntu and shrank the Linux section down to the size of grub. After Gparted was unable to alter Windows for whatever reason, I gave up and left an empty space between. It went into grub rescue as it told me it could not find any operating systems. I tried to reinstall Ubuntu, but grub was still unable to find any OS. I tried to reinstall Ubuntu again and the installer kept saying it was unable to install grub. Now I have is grub rescue and a bootable Ubuntu USB with Gparted. If it is necessary, I am willing to wipe the drive and reinstall Windows. I just need to know how to acquire the recover license key.

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With the liveboot, mount the boot partition and you should find a folder called grub or linux, something like that. Delete that folder and Windows Boot Manager should take over.

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2 minutes ago, MeM said:

I tried that and It still went to grub rescue.

There is likely a backup of it in the third folder, not the Windows one, that has the grub file.

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