Windows 10: Hard drive partitions and Ubuntu

This one is a long one. So, The first OS I had installed on my 1 TB HDD was Ubuntu Linux, and I soon halved the drive to install Windows 10 on the other half. My hard drive reports as GPT, as a Linux installation should; however, the GRUB menu has gone missing I forgot how in the world I did that and I have to use the BIOS option "Windows Boot Manager" to get into windows. If I don't interfere and do something on boot spamming f11 to get the BIOS selector panel so I can select Windows Boot Manager it takes me to a black text-only screen that reads "Active partition not found, press any key to continue.... *presses enter* Please insert boot media and press CTRL ALT DELETE to restart. The weird part is that I do have a working version of Windows 10 installed or I would not be able to post this. I also have access to the Ubuntu partition By selecting it in the BIOS menu. It works normally just as Windows does, but I would like to delete it and let Windows have the extra space. Is there any way to get rid of Ubuntu the disk is GPT not MBR without screwing up my ability to boot into any OS at all? and is there any way to fix the problem where I have to manually select Windows Boot Manager to get into an OS? I don't currently have a copy of Win 10 but I can download a Live USB if need be. Please help.

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W7 Hard drive partition issue

to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

- press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
- diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
- list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
- select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
- clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
- create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
- exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
- click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that

 

Partition or multiple hard drives?

As the title suggests. Is it worth installing say a 36GB drive for the OS soley or partitioning an existing larger drive with either 2 or more partitions? I am currently running Vista 32bit and want to try out 64bit and am sick of reformatting the whole drive. Any suggestions?

 

Partitioning My Hard Drive Without Losing Data


Download any of the suggested programs above and fire up Youtube for a step by step instruction. Easus is a good software. But I personally use MiniTool Partition Wizard.

It will only take 5 minutes to become a professional hard drive partitioner.