will windows recover redo all partitions

[jimbo160]

having a few problems trying to add another os, and make a dual boot. done before, changed my mind, and would do away with it. now at another time, i try again, but hgaving a lot of different problems, and felt like i wanted to do a full recovery of my windows 10. My pc came with windows 8.1, and i would do an upgrade to windows 10. Is there a way to do a recover, and only get windows 10, and not go thru the windows 8.1? If i must go thru 8.1, can you tell me if that recover would repartition my whole system, and possibly remove anything that happened to get there from me and my actions before? appreciate any help,
Jimmy

 

[jimbo160]

imgur is tricky

so c is windows, which partition was ubuntu on? was it F?

here shows how to delete the partition: https://www.pingzic.com/how-to-remove-hard-drive-partition-in-windows-10/
Here shows how to expand C - follow this from step 9: http://www.wikihow.com/Shrink-or-Extend-Your-Existing-Hard-Disk-Partition-Volume

the f ,now is what is left after peppermint was removed. i left it and formated it, wanting to put something in there.

not that it means anything to you, for it did not to me, but this is the sequence for removing peppermint i used.....
Open a terminal and run:
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sudo efibootmgr -o 0000,0003,0001,0002,000B,000C,000D,0004,0005,0006
now shut down the PC.

When you turn it on again, if you do nothing does it now boot into Windows automatically ?

If so, boot to a Peppermint LiveUSB (NOT the installed copy) and select "Try Peppermint" .. once booted to the Live desktop, open:-

menu > System Tools > GParted

Right-click on the /dev/sda8 line and select "Swapoff"

Right-click on the /dev/sda8 line and select "Delete"

Right-click on the /dev/sda7 line and select "Delete"

Click the "Apply" button.

Once done, you can right-click /dev/sda6 (the Windows partition) and select "Resize", and resize it into the free space .. and Apply.

Just be VERY sure not to delete any partitions other than sda7 and sda8

 

[Colif]

i have never used linux so all of its commands mean nothing to me. I can see what it should have done except you have F where the free space should have been to do the resize command

well i think its gone, the only thing remaining is F and its empty so you can add it to C like I showed above or use it for something else. If you merged them and then ran reset on Win 10 it would be like it never happened.

 

[jimbo160]

i have never used linux so all of its commands mean nothing to me. I can see what it should have done except you have F where the free space should have been to do the resize command

well i think its gone, the only thing remaining is F and its empty so you can add it to C like I showed above or use it for something else. If you merged them and then ran reset on Win 10 it would be like it never happened.

"reset on Windows 10"?

 

[Colif]

if you go to settings/update & security/recovery & in right hand column you will find Reset this PC - what it does is reinstalls win 10 as if its brand new but it only effects C drive so wouldn't have been helpful to remake partitions how they should be
There are 2 choices (possibly 3 as it might have factory reset but this would likely reinstall win 8.1)
1. Save files and settings
Files = library folders like Documents, Music, pictures, movies, etc (the folders that came with windows))
Settings = logins and other settings you have changed
2. Wipe it all (pretty obvious)
once you select a choice, it will restart PC and reinstall win 10

 

[Colif]

glad we finally fixed it 😀