How to get rid of rEFInd?

Question

I wanted to try to install Ubuntu, but since I didn't have an available USB I searched how to do it without USB or CD in this post.

I have a UEFI device so decided to follow through, After making the partition and all that I encountered I couldn't change the partition size, so I decided to copy the content from that one into an unused partition that had 8 GB of memory. Well I had to reboot and I encountered the issue.

rEFInd appears as my boot and I have no OS to choose from, ended up having to use a USB device to solve the issue by booting into Windows installation program and using the repair system option.

Now I wanted to get rid of rEFInd, but I don't know how to do it, and I'm also scared of removing that S: partition because the boot is located there. I figured out I could use this command:"bcdedit /set '{bootmgr}' path \Windows\Boot\EFI\bootmgr.efi", but it gives me an error saying:

element's data type not recognised or it doesn't apply to the specified entry

Execute "bcdedit /?" to obtain help with the command line :

Element not found (I manually translated this so maybe some words aren't the usual ones in English)

So if anyone knows how to do this I'd be very grateful. It isn't a matter of life or death, since I can finally boot to Windows with no issue, but I'd like to get rid of this.

Solution

There are a couple of posts on our site which could help here.

The post Reconstructing Windows EFI files in /boot partition has this answer which lets you assign the EFI partition a drive letter and restore the Windows boot environment.

If this is not enough, you could now access the EFI partition via this drive letter and delete rEFInd as described in this answer.

Comments

[harrymc]

How did you manage to boot to Windows?

[Borja Viera]

Inserted Windows installation USB and selected repair system. There was a setting that said something around "booting problems" clicked there and then Windows appeared in rEFInd. After that everything went fine, though I still want to get rid of it. Also if I use secure boot rEFInd doesn't start since I guess it detects it isn't a very safe software in their terms, not very important info though that might help.