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Dual Boot 10 and 8.1 massacre
Ok so I have Windows 10 on my laptop. Upgraded at launch from 7. I'm beginning to build my own pc and wanted to try my old 8.1 iso, to see if it would still work. Plus just wanted something to do.
I made a 45 gig partition of allocated space on my main disk. I booted from the USB and successfully installed 8.1. I then restarted and went back into Windows 10. Which I was on for the rest of the evening. I didn't need to do anything else with 8.1 so I was going to just get rid of it. I did so the same way that I've done with various Linux distro's in the past.
I went into easy BCD and removed the boot process. And then I went into disk management And deleted the partition. And then extended my C back to full space.
I restarted my computer and my heart stopped because the screen that came up said recovery, your PC/device needs to be repaired. I press enter to try again and nothing happens. I press F8 for start up settings and nothing happens. I've been waiting for something like this to happen. But it always sucks when it does.
I think in messing with everything I somehow made my computer forget how to boot up windows 10. Because I went through the start up and the hard disk test and both of them passed. So I think it's still there and fine. I just don't know how to get to it.
I have a system image recovery disk USB which I put in and tried to boot from and it tells me that I can continue to Windows 8.1. Which doesn't make sense because the recovery image was from windows 10. So it's like all confused and I'm freaking out.
I'm really new at all of this internal tinkering stuff and I would really appreciate any help. Kind of a nervous wreck. Thank you.