Tip, just make a seperate EFI partition for Linux. That way, garbage Windows installer won’t be able to fuck up your install. Altough this assumes you’re running a non-shit EFI mobo that looks for things to boot in every partition.
And this is why you should install windows to a docker container on your server and not let it touch anything else. Link to GitHub repo.
Depends on the Distro as some use different boot configs but I had it happen with Pop!OS and did the most logical thing which was wipe my windows partition 🤜🤛
Was that on a system 76 computer? Because it would be fuckin hilarious if they were doing the same scummy shit Microsoft does.
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So you like to pretend Windows rewriting your EFI entries and needing to be fixed is normal?
This has nothing to do with not being able to fix it in seconds. But with Windows indeed being destructive and trying to damage dual boot setup. That’s not a feature because you know how to handle it.
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So you have no clue and thus call other people morons? Got it…
They’re not worth the effort, if you check their history they’re either a troll or someone who is very full of themselves about their knowledge about Windows.
Everyone should obviously assume that Windows rewrites your EFI entries as that is entirely normal and a thing only dumb people don’t know? Other take from their profile is calling someone stupid and OS-illiterate because they didn’t know PowerShell, I’m convinced they’re a troll lol.
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I actually didn’t do that, and I don’t know why you’re going through my comment history. I’ll be done replying to you now.
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I have the opposite problem. I don’t often boot to windows, but when I do, BitLocker is not happy that I’ve been talking to another operating system.
I assume secure boot is off and your Windows drive/partition is encrypted.
Protip:
Just don’t have a live Windows partition.
This. I entirely understand that some people don’t have that option, but it’s worth reiterating that if you have a choice, you’re best off not to have partitions at all.
I run Mint on an 8-year-old Mac desktop machine with no partitions and it’s lightning-fast for everything I need it to do.
It’s also worth mentioning that I have said desktop machine because my wife is a pro photographer and Apple and Adobe have colluded for decades to create a kind of “planned obsolescence” whereby professional photographers are ostensibly locked out of the current industry standard unless they run a very recent version of Photoshop that by design isn’t compatible with hardware architecture that’s more than about 5-years-old.
Partitioning is good even if you’re just running Linux. Specifically separating your / from your /home/ – In case shit goes wrong you can nuke the OS side and keep all your files and shit. (also, mandatory for UEFI systems cuz you also need a /boot/efi partition)
In my case it wasn’t the boot entry being removed. It actually ate the partition. When installing Linux Mint, I resized the Windows partition in Linux. Then I noticed that Windows absolutely didn’t recognize that change, and thought its partition is still as big as it used to. Then on a restart it hit me with the “Repairing drive C:” which killed the Linux partition leaving just something corrupted.
“Repairing”Have you tried first resizing the windows partition inside windows? That’s what I did and my dual boot has stayed intact
Yep, that’s what I did later and it worked.
Windows: “Let me repair Linux for you”
Ew, you’ve got a linux on your windshield, lemme just hit the wipers for you real quick
I had this setup 20 years ago. Tried Linux, looked back once because I needed something from the then still unmounted windows partition, dumped the microshit partition 3 months later.
Fuck windows
Can anyone smart help me out? I tried to clone my drive and the stupid ass program installed another boot thing. I was able to remove the options in the list, but now I have to wait or hit enter to boot windows 10. Fucking annoying.
Go into Bios to set the default startup partition.
Thanks. The boot order is already set to windows boot manager> C: system drive. Setting it to just the C: (minus WBM) fails to boot. Uefi is msi.
The issue is a partition was put on there by Macrium. I deleted it, but the windows boot manager is now borked and now I have to manually select windows 10 or wait for it to time out. This adds a lot of boot time, and it’s annoying.
Have you looked at “System Configuration” (just type it in the Windows search box)? There’s a Boot tab that should allow you to set a default or remove others.
Yup. There’s nothing there (set to win 10 default). This problem is insidious.
This is what made me jump the gun.
I think the phrase you want is “pull the trigger”. “Jump the gun” means to do something too soon, whereas “pull the trigger” means to do something after a wait.
The last time windows tried to update, it froze and when i rebooted my laptop, windows broke
Lol which Windows? Windows 98? I installed win 10 on the laptop of my gf after replacing the hdd with an ssd some days ago and one update also froze. But it did not break the os. After rebooting it just removed the update.
I was using windows 11
Never happened to me. Fedora had completely deleted Windows bootloader once though and didn’t even recognize the existence of Windows on install in the first place.
If you still “dual boot”, be advised that Windows is a piece of shit and will almost always cause this with a “build” update. Highly, highly recommend having Linux and Windows (shame on you) on separate physical drives.
Funny, cause most I hear do not have this problem.
Sounds like a skill issue.
I have separate physical drives. When I changed out my Linux distro on the Linux drive Windows took back over. I don’t know what the hell happened in the bios, but things were not the same in there after that and I spent a good hour fucking with it to try and get the drive with grub on it to be the default. I finally got it working right, but it was not normal. I could manually select it at boot time no problem, but who wants to enter the boot selection on every reboot… gross.
Best to block windows updates, they usually always break things while offering little benefit. Though I never thought dual booting on the same Disk was ever a safe idea with Windows.
i had to use Microsoft a while ago, so installed a skin of it, ReviOS to be specific, alongside GNU/Linux. It helped in getting the work done without unwanted updates(which are practically downgrades), and was very fast. coupled with a package manager like scoop it was not that bad experience. even better than MacOS, I’d say.
