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I am an utter noob. I understand similar questions have been asked before. But I havent seen one where someone screwed up their live usb after deleting their ubuntu partition. Also it is a very old laptop and I have no installation disc or product key either. This laptop has Windows 7, whose ISO image is no longer available on the microsoft site. So is it possible to get back my windows? I am greeted by the grub resuce screen.

Akashik
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  • Now most systems are UEFI, so you just have to change boot order in UEFI settings to recover from deletion of Ubuntu. Always best to make sure default boot is system you want to keep before deleteing anything. And always have a repart/recovery flash drive for current version of every installed system. Since BIOS, you may be able to install a Windows type boot loader to MBR with Boot-Repair. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair BIOS only boots from MBR and only one boot loader can be in MBR. – oldfred Jul 04 '23 at 20:25
  • Please refer https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic, Ubuntu and official flavors of Ubuntu (https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours) are on-topic on this site. The on-topic link provides alternate SE sites for non-Ubuntu OSes. You removed the OS that is on-topic on this site, we don't support windows. You should have ensured windows controlled booting before deleting the OS that did.. but windows recovery media will fix that however we don't support windows – guiverc Jul 04 '23 at 22:41
  • Oldfred...thank you. Boot-repair worked. Guiverc my bad..thank you for letting me know about the on-topics. – Akashik Jul 05 '23 at 13:44
  • Does this answer your question? Unable to boot into windows after removing Ubuntu 20.04 – karel Jul 06 '23 at 11:43

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