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I currently have a dual boot between Windows and Linux but I'm thinking about removing Windows. Would I need to do anything to Grub in order to continue use Linux Mint? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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As a sort of follow up to the post I made on my alt account, would I need to do to anything to Grub to continue using Linux Mint after removing Windows or would I still be able to boot into Linux Mint without having to do anything? As stated in the previous post, Windows is installed onto an SSD and I want run games from that SSD but I'd need to reformat the SSD in order to use it.

Edit: I don't need help with this anymore but because it seems like there is some confusion, I'm including the fact that I have Linux installed onto an external hard drive and Windows was installed onto the SSD which is in the laptop. I've already remove Windows from the SSD and reformatted it to ext4 so I can run games from it.

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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I didn't need to. On top of the fact that I've never used Windows on this computer and I have Linux Mint installed on an external hard drive, the Windows installation needed to be repaired as my laptop's CMOS battery died a while back and it made both Linux Mint and Windows 10 unbootable. I was able to repair Linux Mint's installation through the LiveCD but, while I do know how to because I've done it on other computers, I never saw a reason to repair Windows as well and originally intended to wait until I got a new PC.

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