I entirely avoided this issue ever since I started to mess with Linux with separate drives, and then brought in a litany of other issues by me whenever I wanted to wipe and reinstall windows or Linux.
Best bit is Windows couldn’t boot for me either (all bios entries were empty). I’m glad I had a live USB laying around.
I fixed this by deleting Windows.
Yeah. This crap was the last straw for me to stop dual booting.
There’s always a virtual machine if you need it for work.
I finally solved this problem in my desktop by having two separate M2 drives, one for Windows and one for Linux. Boot & grub live on the Linux drive and Windows never touches it.
With Linux and Windows on one drive, this is super annoying.
I have windows and linux on different drives and windows killed my bootloader this week anyway lol
That’s what I did. And after going to all the trouble, I’ve booted into Windows 11 twice in 3 months.
My wife had a kid about a year ago now… before that I had been dual booting win10 on one drive… kubuntu on the other…
I kept win10 for rocket league… When the kiddo popped out. I didn’t have time to play… Anything at all actually.
So I just turned the win10 drive into a storage drive and I don’t miss win10 or rocket league at all.
Any games I want to play I can install via steam and proton and I’m good.
Not that I get to play anything with an 11 month old. Haha
Friends don’t let friends play Rocket League.
Well, ranked, anyway. Only game in 40+ years of gaming that I threw a controller over. Even Ninja Gaiden on NES couldn’t do that to me. lol
Yeah ranked was bull shit.
Some of my best gaming times was being drunk and playing with friends.
But man… the community became so toxic… and once it went free to play… it went to complete shit.
I’m not going to spend $20 on a goal explosion.
Fuck all that noise.
Ha, I recently upgraded to an nvme drive from SATA, cloned the drive and then realised I need to move the windows partition all the way to the end to let me expand the Linux partition. Which broke windows. After about 2-3 hours of troubleshooting it was working again. It was around then I realised I hadn’t booted into windows in 2 years!
And I have a laptop with no additional ssd slot…
You have another slot most likely, it’s just populated by the Wifi card, If you’re willing to sacrifice that and use one of those tiny USB wifi adapters you can use that as your second slot with a little adapter to convert between E key to M key. Also have to use a 2230 SSD since the longer ones won’t fit in the spot.
Oh man thanks for the cool tip. Could be useful when switching ssds
I did something similar, except I don’t have a second drive with windows.
I had this setup but during a reinstall/update Windows still destroyed Grub. You have been warned!
As a disabled dude: lmfao this is great
Dang.
Hope new medical advancements will keep making your life increasingly easier, and perhaps one day even restore your boot partition wheel.XD
This britens my day way more than it should.
Fuck this is accurate
The whole reason I got rid of windows update and where my hatred towards windows started
This meme format has a lot of potential
I had the opposite once, years ago: I don’t know the cause anymore, but somehow Windows disappeared from my grub.
By the time I had finally secured all my data with the intent to make that absence permanent, it did reappear (again, no idea why), but I was committed. Steamrolled the entire drive with a new Ubuntu install and haven’t used Windows privately since.
I did need to use tools that don’t run on Linux (even with wine - believe me, I tried) for uni and used a windows VM, my work laptop is Windows because I need the same tools and get no say in it anyway, but haven’t had a direct Windows install on my system since 2022.
My private OS of choice is by now Nobara, though I also intend to use an obsolete SSD to try more distros with.
Can relate. A lot of my college work required software that only wanted to run on windows
Shame is, I kinda like the tool (Microsoft Power BI) for its graphical interface and capabilities. Don’t get me wrong, I have plenty of complaints too, and its promises of empowering users to find their own insights come with a lot of conditions. But I’ve also not found any comparable FOSS alternatives.
Had this exact thing happen to me. Luckily my Framework laptop’s BIOS allows me to pick the EFI boot order and I set it back to the Linux Boot loader.
Why is King Charles stilling my shit?!?!?
I’m sure the British museum will take a good care of it.
Apparently, you consented to it back in 1634 on account of the fact that one of your ancestors was considered a “savage” by the monarchy, so they were “doing you a favo(u)r”
This happened to me after partizioning a fucking external drive in the windows partition manager. I jist nuked the windows install and now use wine or a VM for my windows needs
Maybe you should put some distance between yourself and Buckingham Palace next time you install Linux.
I thought being about 1000km away would be enough but apparently not.
For me it was the reverse -
ntfs-3gwas constantly corrupting my windows drives because apparently NTFS is incredibly complicated and it can only handle a subset of that. But, the last time I used dual boot setup was more than 5 years ago. Has this gone any better nowadays?Not if it’s on a fully encrypted separate disk.
(Obligatorily: ‘Also if you dont have Windows.’)
Last time I installed Windows, it looked for existing EFI partitions on other drives. I could only get windows to create an EFI partition on its own drive by physically disconnecting all other drives before starting the installation.
Yes, that works too, same principle.
In my case I used to lose the Windows Boot manager entry… And only see PopOS… I was scared of Linux, but it pushed me to explore it even more… well I need to send an email for example, and only Linux was in front of me… So, thanks Windows Update.
