Windows 10: Formatting and reinstalling Windows from a Windows 10-Ubuntu Dual boot system

I have a dual boot system with windows 10 and Ubuntu 19.04. I had gotten a recovery USB drive made at the time of purchase of the system.

If I try to format and reinstall a fresh copy of windows will it affect my Ubuntu install? How do I format just the Windows part of my system.

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Dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04?


Once I had Windows 10 RTM dual booting with Linux 17.2. No issue whatsoever.

Here is a tutorial on dual booting Win 10 and Ubuntu 15.04
http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/d...th-screenshots

 

Formatting a dual boot system with windows 10 and ubuntu

Hi,

In Windows 10, you can easily format a hard drive or a partition by accessing Computer Management. For us to assist you, we suggest that you follow the steps listed below:

• Press the Start button.
• Type Computer Management.
• On the left side, click on Disk Management under Storage.
• Locate the drive that you want to format.
• Once located, right-click on the drive and choose Format.

If the hard drive has not been formatted with the steps that we have provided above, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer of your hard drive. Some hard drive requires a software that you'll need to use just to format it.

Let us know how it goes and if you need further assistance, feel free to post back.

 

Issues upgrading Windows 8.1 to 10 on a dual boot laptop with Ubuntu

Hello George,

Sorry for the delay in response.

Yes, dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows is very sensitive in order of things.

Windows OS should be installed first, because its boot loader is very particular and the installer tends to overwrite the entire hard drive.

GRUB is the boot manager installed in Ubuntu by default. GRUB is an open source boot manager that install the main parts of the boot loaders inside Ubuntu. This means Ubuntu is independent and avoids any need for writing to other
operating systems

So the best way to resolve this issue as rightly suggested in the initial post i.e.:
remove the partition with Ubuntu and make Windows a primary, reinstall Ubuntu and Grub.

We regret the inconvenience caused on the applications that you will have to reload. Suggest you to back up of any important data present in Ubuntu before reinstalling it.


Get back to us if you require more clarity on the issue.