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UPDATE: So after I broke grub, I tried reinstalling Fedora. Now windows has disappeared from BIOS (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: So after all that, I was able to reinstall windows and download Macrium reflect + my backup. First time I tried to recover it, it failed for some reason, but the second time around I was able to restore it successfully. I'm now back where I started, thank you everyone!

I'm not done with Linux yet, but I think I'm going to try and run it in a good VM for the time being. When I'm done with classes, or when I get a separate device, I will give it another go.

Post 1: https://lemmy.ca/post/3709382

Post 2: https://lemmy.ca/post/3863438

Yesterday I could at least change the order in the BIOS to boot windows. Now I can't even do that.

I think when reinstalling, I must have overwritten something (the EFI?). I saw some other people that had a very similar experience, and the advice was to reinstall Windows. I'm currently downloading Windows installation media on another computer and I'm going to try and reinstall windows now.

This just keeps getting worse and worse, and thank you for the help while I struggle through this.

If anyone has other tips, I'd appreciate it :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Payback

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Heh, yeah 😂

By the way you might wanna consider an alternative such as rEFInd if you're using an UEFI (BIOS but newer and shittier thanks to "improved security", full of limits) or "systemd-bootloader"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

thank you! I'll note that down for next time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's objectively better. Rather than having to manipulate raw bytes to change my bootloader, I can just add it to my ESP, which is a partition that the UEFI reads to find what to start on your hard disk. Also, no more 640x480 resolution at boot.

All computers since the late-Windows 7 era use UEFI.

Secure Boot is shit, I agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

All computers since the late-Windows 7 era use UEFI.

That's why I hated the extra step that I had to do to not corrupt the UEFI while installing a Linux distro years ago... All this new stuff that just locks you and limits you.

Things are better sometimes but in this case they're not.