Deleted primary partition

Question

I dual booted my laptop to run both linux and window. Yesterday, I tried to remove the linux partition of which i did successfully. Unfortunately the linux partition was the primary partition (yes I know this was dumb).

Problem:

The laptop will not boot at all because it's looking for the primary partition (linux).

What I tried:

Grub loads, two files are displayed and when I try to 'ls' each file, it says unknown file system.

My question:

How can i recover and boot into Windows 10? Thanks.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 12 '16 at 09:20

I would try one of the following:

boot from a linux live cd and reinstall grub with different configuration, pointing to Windows partition,
alternatively, boot from a linux live cd and use testdisk to recover the partition (see https://www.maketecheasier.com/recover-data-and-partitions-for-free-with-testdisk/ for instructions),

Deleted primary partition

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