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Removal and back to Windows

How to remove SevaPanel from its separate drive and leave Windows on the computer.

Save your accounts first

logpass.txt and the maFile files will be removed from the drive, with no way to restore them. Copy them to a USB drive or the cloud before deleting partitions.

The license lives on the server, not the machine. You can reset the key and move the subscription from the bot even after erasing the drive. See Licenses and payment.

The current installer puts Windows and SevaPanel on separate physical drives only. Windows partitions do not need to be repaired or moved.

1. Start Windows​

Open the motherboard Boot Menu (F12, F11, F8, Esc, or Del) and select Windows Boot Manager.

Then put Windows Boot Manager first in the UEFI Boot Order. You can disable or delete rEFInd Boot Manager in the UEFI settings. If the firmware offers no such option, it is safe to leave the entry there: it simply stops working after the SevaPanel drive is erased.

2. Erase the SevaPanel drive​

  1. Open Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) in Windows.
  2. Find the separate physical SevaPanel drive. Linux partitions have no drive letters, and Windows may not recognise their file systems.
  3. Check the model and size. Do not select the Windows drive.
  4. Delete the partitions on the SevaPanel drive that Disk Management allows you to delete. The small EFI partition containing rEFInd may be protected from deletion; do not bypass that protection with arbitrary commands from the internet.
  5. If all the required space is now Unallocated, create a new simple volume and format it as NTFS.

After the volume is created, the available drive space appears in Windows again. If a protected EFI partition remains or Windows does not allow you to create a volume of the required size, stop and contact support. During a full Windows reinstall, you can erase this separate drive from the standard Windows installer drive-selection screen, but only after making a backup and checking the model and size again.

Do not change the Windows drive's EFI partition or the EFI\Microsoft directory.

If Windows does not start

Select Windows Boot Manager directly from the Boot Menu. If the entry is missing or does not work, use a Windows installation USB drive and Microsoft's standard startup repair, or contact support.

Reinstall Windows completely​

If no data is needed from any drive, boot a Windows installation USB drive. At the disk selection screen, check every model again and delete partitions only from drives you actually intend to erase.