Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Ubuntu UEFI Dual-Boot without boot repair

I have an HP Pavilion with Windows 8.1 pre-installed. I managed to dual boot Ubuntu 15.04 successfully. Then, I replaced the Windows Boot Loader with the grub loader as default by entering this command in the Windows command prompt:


bcdedit /set "{bootmgr}" path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi


However, I decided to uninstall Ubuntu and unwisely began by deleting the Ubuntu partition from the Windows Disk Manager. Predictably, this led to a corruption in my EFI partition, I could not boot into Windows, and I had to get my HDD replaced.


This time, I want to install Ubuntu and not install the grub loader, instead just booting Ubuntu manually from the boot options during startup. My question is, if I choose to uninstall Ubuntu by deleting partitions again, will I get the same problems with my new scheme i.e. without meddling with the Windows boot process?

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