Dual Booted

I wanted to check out Linux Mint. I made a boo boo. Now my Win 7 pro is dual booted with Mint. I do not
like this. Can I delete Mint?

 

Normally you can just delete the linux partition from within windows

Whenever i make a dual boot machine with with linux i usually make a windows partion and then leave an unallocated section that i would use for linux from there i just install linux.

Go to the windows icon on the left and type in disk management
Find your linux partition and you can just delete it
****disclaimer**** I have never installed linux within windows i have always made a separate partition and installed OFF windows , these steps may work for you but are not guaranteed try at your own risk


Before you attempt any of this i would make a back up of your operating system in case something goes wrong
Pay close attention and make sure you are not deleting your operating system with windows 7

After you find and delete the linux partition it should be gone, however your windows won't boot properly because the bootlader needs to be fixed.

To do this , find your windows 7 restore disc and boot it, or if you can't find it you can get a windows 7 iso online create a bootable usb drive using rufus and use that.

Once that is done boot the cd or the usb drive ( whatever you have access to or is easiest for you), select repair computer and choose command prompt

Now you will type the following into the command prompt
bootrec /fixmbr
once it says its completed and finish type the following next

bootrec /fixboot

Once it says its completed exit command prompt out by selecting the X on the box and just restart your computer ( once it restarts make sure it doesn't try to boot from the cd or usb drive because it may).

If you did this correctly your bootloader should now be fixed and windows should be up and running back to normal

as a side note i would suggest that if you ever want to try out any linux operating systems just to mess with them to just install them in a usb drive or sd card. Compared to a hard drive the operating system would function slower but if all the want to do is just test and get familiar with linux just install it on a usb devicee and make sure the linux bootloader is also installed directly on the usb device and not your hard drive.

If you do this then you can simply take off the usb drive when you don't want to use linux and your main hard drive or hard drives are unharmed or tampered with.

This is typically what i do since there are so many versions of linux most of which i just try for a couple of days and never again

 

Also its quite possible that after you fix your windows bootloader that you may need to input your cd key again and activate it, at least this has been my case about 70% of the time