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Laptop: Dell latitude e7450, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, i5-5300u 2.3ghz 2 core, , UEFI
Fedora was installed, then I decided to delete Fedora, tried, I deleted the 18.86 gb partition from disk management, then restarted, then the first message was a grub 2.2 message. This message did not lead to anything. Windows was not accessible through f12 boot menu. When attempting to access fedora in the f12 boot menu, the grub 2.2 message appears, fedora does not load.
USB windows media recovery did not help. I was able to access command prompt from the recovery then used fix/rebuild commands, the first was "access denied".
Windows was not accessible.
With my desktop, I used rufus, linux mint iso, usb, to install linux mint, then I was able to access windows from a different boot manager.
Then I installed mx 2.5, then antix.
My original intention was to test the various linux OS's, then decide which was best to use.
I did not prefer the excess background services operating in windows and wanted more available ram.
The laptop is primarily used for work, research, 2 web browsers, edge, with 10 tabs each, 2 wordpad, file explorer.
I prefer to remove all the extra partitions, while keeping the windows OS.
Windows OS was reinstalled through the "Reset This PC" in Windows OS, this action reset the windows boot manager, then windows became the first OS to load during pc boot.
If you are able to right click those 3 partitions and select 'Delete Volume', perform that process, then they will merge into one large 'Unallocated Space'.
Then right click the C drive partition and select 'Extend' then extend the C drive partition into that large 'Unallocated Space'.
F12, Windows Boot Manager is the first in the menu, for every reboot and power off then power on, windows loads automatically.
In Disk Management, for each referred red arrow partition, 18.68 gb, E:, G:, I can select "delete volume"
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Boot your laptop into BIOS, then go to the Boot Priority list, is 'Windows Boot Manager' now set as the primary boot device?
2
Open Disk Management again.
In the bottom pane, are you able to right click the 3 partitions indicated below and select 'Delete Volume' to merge them into 'Unallocated Space'.
No9te: do not touch the two partitions to the far right of the drive, they are required by Windows.
