Give us the source OP
This britens my day way more than it should.
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
This same thing happened to me a few years ago so I deleted windows and never looked back
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
That’s what I did. And after going to all the trouble, I’ve booted into Windows 11 twice in 3 months.
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!
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.
I had this setup but during a reinstall/update Windows still destroyed Grub. You have been warned!
I did something similar, except I don’t have a second drive with windows.
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.
I’m not gonna fire up Windows (Update) for this, but shouldn’t the bootloader handle this?
I’ve never actually had this problem, but the issue is Windows will wipe your bootloader from the ESP, so it can’t do anything about it. You can use your bootloader of choice to fix it, but you’d have to chroot from a live image.
Source: I accidentally deleted the wrong EFI partition
Sounds about right. In my case I think it didn’t even wipe the whole thing.
I just don’t understand why they share EFI partitions.
I don’t know if this is a new meme format or not, but I’ve enjoyed seeing it on my feed today
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.
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.
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.
Just shove wondows in a VM or something
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?It might be that the default for Windows is to sleep rather than do a full shutdown. Whenever Linux looks at a Windows partition it looks corrupted. When windows starts up again it’s inconsistent as some of the data was in the sleep image.
It already detects this and refuses to write to such a partition.
thats why i formated the windows partitions on my laptop last week
This meme format has a lot of potential
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.
What framework do you have? I plan on getting one
I have the 13" AMD one. Only reason I still have Windows on it is because I can’t get Davinci Resolve to run under Ubuntu. Otherwise very happy with my purchase.
Glad to hear that. I plan on getting the 16 but i have a concern about the expansion cards. Specifically the display port one. See i want to get the valve index but that needs Displayport to work. However i have read multiple times that the display port card is kinda buggy varying from person to person. Do you have any experience with the dp expansion card?
Sorry I don’t. I only have the HDMI card.
Does the Index really need full DP or does it work via USB-C? Because in the end all those expansion cards are just USB-C accessories. I’m asking because we own a Quest2 and use it with USB-C and my desktop PC. Haven’t tried it with my Laptop.
I think this may be dependent on the bandwidth. Cause some people in the framework forum reported that dp to thunderbolt adapter works but dp to hdmi doesn’t. They also reported issues outside vr with the dp card specifically. So i was wondering wether you had any experience with it. Thank you anyway
