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Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:

1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.

Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Seems my motherboard cannot disable nvme, I might try disconnecting it