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18 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Yes, if you load another linux distro it should fix grub for you, if not when you're in linux just get the grub manager and delete any entries you no longer need/want and then update grub... IIRC that's the procedure.

Just updated the grub boot loader with sudo update-grub and then it did not show windows as a option.

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Hey,

 

I have just wiped my drive with windows on it, but when i boot i get the option to boot to windows which is not working.... Any way to fix this?

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Just now, OsuMasterz said:

What method did you use to wipe the drive?

Used the disk tool in linux and wrote the drive with all 0's

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Probably something to do with your BIOS I'd suspect...

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Probably something to do with your BIOS I'd suspect...

It is the linux boot loader that says i can boot to windows...

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Just now, Bwithnewcast said:

It is the linux boot loader that says i can boot to windows...

Fair enough, no idea den :/ (as I don't use Linux :P)

Looking at my signature are we now? Well too bad there's nothing here...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What? As I said, there seriously is nothing here :) 

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2 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Fair enough, no idea den :/ (as I don't use Linux :P)

Converted to linux right now... But i am going to dual boot it with another linux distro so maybe it will remove windows from the boot loader

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Yes, if you load another linux distro it should fix grub for you, if not when you're in linux just get the grub manager and delete any entries you no longer need/want and then update grub... IIRC that's the procedure.

Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you.

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18 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Yes, if you load another linux distro it should fix grub for you, if not when you're in linux just get the grub manager and delete any entries you no longer need/want and then update grub... IIRC that's the procedure.

Just updated the grub boot loader with sudo update-grub and then it did not show windows as a option.

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