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.
That’s funny
No it’s not!
Oh wait, nvmd yes it is.
This britens my day way more than it should.
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
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.
Fuck this is accurate
The whole reason I got rid of windows update and where my hatred towards windows started
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
