Windows 10: I might have deleted an important partition and now I’m getting ‘boot device not found’ on...

A few days ago I installed Linux mint just to try it out as I liked the live version. I created a partition to store it and was pretty happy with how it was going. I started installing too many programs and eventually it got messed up, so my extremely slow thought process decided it was best to just uninstall it and reinstall later.

So I went into windows 10 and tried to delete the partition but it wouldn’t let me, so I downloaded the paragon disc manager to do it. I knew which volume to delete because it’s field for file system was empty. I removed it and paragon asked me to restart, so I followed the steps. After rebooting there was a message saying that the action was complete and that it would restart. But after rebooting the error mentioned above occurred, and I spent a long while freaking out thinking I had accidentally deleted something important.

I’ve reset my bios settings to no avail, and did a hard reset which had the same results. I tried opening boot manager as well but it was completely empty. I found the USB with Mint live and tried opening it the same way but I can’t open it because one of the files needs to be renamed and I don’t have any other windows PC to change it.

Is there anything i can do to fix this or is windows 10 completely broken and I have to get a new hard drive?

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Delete my W10 Partition

Do you want to safely delete your Windows 10 partition and use only Windows 7?

If Yes, then boot to your Windows 7, run msconfig, go to "Boot" tab, you will see something like this :





Choose "Windows 7" and click "Set as default", then choose "Windows 10" and click "Delete", restart if asked or necessary.
Now the boot information for Windows 10 has been deleted and you can safely delete your Windows 10 partition (make sure no important files are on the Win10 partition). To delete and extend your partition you can use many partition manager tools.

 

/boot Partition?

[Solved] /boot Partition?

Ok, I like playing around with multiple operating systems so I tend to have a few installed at a time. My issue is related to the bootloader. Every new Linux OS I install installs its own version of Grub. That's fine until you delete that partition.... *Bang Head :banghead:

I was thinking about creating a small (ie ~50MB) partition that /boot will reside on. This way I can have one copy of Grub that would boot my several OS(s) depending on what they are. I think this is a good idea so I can delete one OS's partition and still be able to boot the other OS(s).

Unfortunately, I am not an expert with bootloaders and I'm not really sure how /boot has to do with booting. Can someone tell me how feasible my idea is? I'm looking for a way to have multiple OS(s) but only one bootloader so when I delete one OS, the bootloader will still be intact.

Any ideas/suggestions/advice is appreciated! *Smile

 

/boot Partition?

If you have a newer CPU, I would suggest using some Virtualization software.

Virtual machine software that's free like Virtual Box or a "to buy" one like Vmware...

You can install, mess with and even straight up destroy OS's in a nice, safe little sandbox, and it doesn't hamper a thing *Wink