I installed Fedora on my computer by freeing up 20GB from the E drive in Windows 10 . But i realised that i didn't like the interface much , so i went back to windows disk management and noticed that 20GB of space was still free and so without deleting anything on it , i put all that space back into my E: drive on windows 10 . Now , after i restarted my computer , i got stuck on grub rescue which says Error : Unknown Filesystem
. After some research on google , i found out that it was due to me deleting that linux partition which also deleted the grub bootloader which handled the booting of Windows and Linux . I found the following solutions to help me :
1)Repair the MBR bootloader which the Windows originally used by going into the command prompt using the Windows 10 bootable usb and putting in the command BootRec.exe /fixmbr
.
The bootable windows 10 usb ends up getting stuck in the restart loop i.e. on the windows logo loading screen with the white dots moving in a circle .
2)Use a Ubuntu or any other Linux distro live usb and run gpart to format my HDD
I have tried to run/install Fedora , Ubuntu and Mint but they always get stuck in the process . Ubuntu always reports many errors like "Out of memory" "Kill process or sacrifice child" in a list whenever i try to "Try Ubuntu without installing" or "Install Ubuntu"
3)Use the following commands in the grub rescue terminal :
set boot=(hd0,msdos7)
set prefix=(hd0,msdos7)/boot/grub
insmod normal
normal
This did get me to the grub menu which showed me the OS available on my HDD (Ubuntu and Windows 10) but whenever i clicked on Windows 10 , it got stuck in the restart loop i.e. at the windows logo loading screen and whenever i clicked on Ubuntu , it got stuck on a blank screen .
Please help .