People generally use Windows tools to fix the Windows bootloader. Tue 4:11 amThere must be a way to fix this from Linux, or? And it's Windows tools you need to fix your Windows boot issue. In some respects it's analogous to booting Mint "live" if you want to think of it that way, but with MS Windows tools instead of Linux Mint tools. P.S.: Once booted to a WinRE (or WinPE) environment, it's running as SYSTEM and therefore requires no other admin rights for the installed Windows OS. You said earlier that "Windows boots correctly without a blue screen" and so your should be able to get to its boot repair options that way ( details for W10 here) but if not, you'll need to create or obtain bootable WinRE media somehow. You can get to them via the Advanced Options of the Windows Boot Manager menu (not the F12 menu) or you can get to them by booting Windows Repair Environment media (WinRE disc or USB stick). Not if your objective is as you stated at the outset to be able to boot "straight into Windows and revert things to as they were before I attempted to install Linux Mint?" To accomplish that you need to use the same kind of tools that set it up that way in the first place and those tools can be accessed in either of two ways. There must be a way to fix this from Linux, or? Luckily, at next boot I can get into Windows, otherwise I would be totally locked out. However, it leads (if I use the boot menu through pressing F12 at reboot) to the blue BitLocker screen. How can I remove GRUB from the laptop so that it boots straight into Windows and revert things to as they were before I attempted to install Linux Mint? If, in this boot menu, I choose ubuntu I get the same GRUB menu with the same options and outcomes. However, if I boot the laptop pressing F12 to get into the (UEFI) boot menu, I can choose Windows Boot Manager and Windows boots correctly without a blue screen. When I boot the laptop, I get a GRUB menu from where I can choose between Linux Mint, which boots fine (if the correct USB flash drive is present), and Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda2) which leads to a blue screen titled BitLocker Recovery with no option to boot Windows. Now it seems I have inadvertently installed GRUB onto the laptop's hard drive. I did the Linux Mint install from a Linux Mint live OS booted from another USB flash drive.
I installed Linux Mint 19.1 onto a USB flash drive on a laptop that has on the internal drive a Windows 10 installation for which I do not have administrator rights.
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