How To Remove Windows Bootloader?

[Rodgi]

Hi there,

I have a 1TB nvme drive with EndeavourOS on it as my main OS, and a second 120GB ssd with Windows on it. Recently I had to reinstall windows, and didn’t unplug the nvme drive first like I should have. So it installed its bootloader into the boot partition on my nvme drive instead of creating a new boot partition on the 120GB ssd like I wanted/expected. It seemed to work ok for a while, I almost never use Windows anyways. But recently I updated the bios on my motherboard and it automatically booted into windows, and poof my grub was gone, so I had to chroot into Endeavour and regenerate it (thank you so much for your wiki post on how to do that, total life saver).

Anyway, now I want to remove the Windows bootloader from my nvme boot partition, and either wipe windows for good or reinstall it properly this time. How do I remove the Windows bootloader without risking damaging my EndeavourOS install? I’m fairly new to Linux and don’t know how this all works.

[pebcak]

Assuming that this is an UEFI install, you could just navigate to /boot/efi/EFI and remove Microsoft folder. There should be a folder EnOS in there as well. That one you could leave as is.

Please note that this will make your Windows unbootable.

[Rodgi]

Awesome, found it. Yes, Windows made me mad enough that I’m just wanting it gone. I’ll try it out, thank you very much!