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All my drives have different sizes so the chance is super low. My worries is because I picked the correct drive in nobara and it still nuked my windows boot partition (the rest of my windows drive was fine but couldnt boot into it), I was wondering if I need to somehow disable my windows drive to make sure nothing happens to it, but then Im worried GRUB wont see it
You wont get windows in Grub, but since you're using separate drives, you can boot each one by just setting the boot drive in BIOS.
You can also look up how to add windows later, once you have fedora working and re-enable the drive with windows.
I'd have to see the Nonara install to know, but I don't see how that would happen then or now. I've installed thousands of machines and never had it accidentally do anything like "miss" the correct target drive.
Either way, you shouldn't have an issue now.
Technically it didnt miss, it installed in the correct drive but still destroyed my windows boot partition. I asked in the nobara disc and they said the program nobara uses to install is bad, so maybe that is why? So I can just install Fedora on my other drive without any worries? Nothing special to keep in mind? Should I use Fedora's tool to create the bootable drive?
EDIT: Btw, this time I wont install with nobara, I will just install fedora KDE
Yep. Installing on two different drives, make sure you go into your BIOS settings and set the new drive as the first boot target to get you a Grub menu on boot though.
and if I set it back to windows it will boot straight into it with no issues right (no GRUB)?
Yep! Grub should show you the Fedora or Windows boot options though, so you shouldn't need to flop back and forth in the BIOS.