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    How to remove GRUB from Windows laptop (MS Surface Pro 3) - the 4x BootRec commands did not work
From Windows 11

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Run a cmd.exe process with administrator privileges

    cmd.exe


Run diskpart

    diskpart.exe


Type: list disk then sel disk X where X is the drive your boot files reside on

    list disk
    select disk X


Type list vol to see all partitions (volumes) on the disk (the EFI volume will be formatted in FAT, others will be NTFS)

    list vol


Select the EFI volume by typing: sel vol Y where Y is the SYSTEM volume (this is almost always the EFI partition)

    select vol Y


For convenience, assign a drive letter by typing: assign letter=Z: where Z is a free (unused) drive letter

    assign letter=Z:


Type exit to leave disk part

    exit


While still in the cmd prompt, type: Z: and hit enter, where Z was the drive letter you just created.

    Z:


Type dir to list directories on this mounted EFI partition

    dir


Type cd EFI and then dir to list the child directories inside EFI

    cd EFI


Type rmdir /S linux-entry to delete the linux boot directory

    rmdir /S entry other than Boot and Microsoft

From Linux

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Run efibootmgr to see current boot order and entries

            sudo efibootmgr

Change boot order to boot from from Windows

            $ # if windows bootnum is 000, and other entries are 003, 004 etc
            $ sudo efibootmgr -o 0,3, 4

Delete Linux boot entries

            $ # if windows bootnum is 000, and other entries are 003, 004 etc
            $ sudo efibootmgr -b 3 -B
            $ sudo efibootmgr -b 4 -B

Go to EFI directory most probably /boot/efi

            $ sudo su
            # cd /boot/efi

Remove that foder having the name of your Linux distribution

            # rm -rf fedora

Reboot your system