Close the window, reboot the PC and check if the changes are effective. To delete another one, just click on it and select “Delete”. If not set, select on the OS from the window and click on "Set as default" button on the same window. Select “Boot” tab from the window and check if the OS you would like to keep is shown as Current OS Default OS. Press "Windows logo + R" keys on the keyboard to open "Run" box, type in “msconfig” and press "Enter" key on the keyboard to open the System Configuration window. Using the msconfig utility tool allows you to select the default OS you’d like to boot directly into when you restart your computer, or delete one of the two OSes. To uninstall one of the operating systems on dual boot computer, you can delete the target OS in System Configuration, or delete the partition where OS that you want to get rid of is installed. Thus, the following two methods are worth trying. After the deletion, you can boot your computer from the recovery drive and then use troubleshooting to overwrite the Linux boot loader with the Windows boot loader.
Therefore, you also need to create a Windows 10 recovery USB disk in advance.
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If you install Linux system and Windows 10 or 11, deleting Linux partition may affect the bootloader. If that is your case, you may need to remove dual boot in Windows 10/11 without affecting the other OS.īefore trying to delete the OS from dual boot, it is recommended to create a system backup of the OS that you do want to keep just in case anything goes wrong during the process. Some of them actually only use one of the systems. Many users have installed two different operating systems (OS) on the same hard drive. One is windows 10 and another one is Ubuntu. I want to remove one of them: Ubuntu. Preparation for safe dual boot removal in Windows 10/11Ģ Methods to delete dual boot in Windows 10/11
Need to remove dual boot partition in Windows 10/11