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[-] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 5 months ago

Windows has a habit of deleting grub when it updates. Idk if it is just bad Microsoft programming or intentional.

[-] stanka@lemmy.ml 55 points 5 months ago
[-] ares35@kbin.social 12 points 5 months ago

windows ain't done until nothing else runs.

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 25 points 5 months ago

You mean I can’t have a separate partition without microsoft thinking they own everything?

[-] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 months ago

Yeah pretty much. When I dual booted I just had 2 drives and used the bios boot select

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago

I used to do that but windows still managed to break grub somehow

[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago
[-] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago

What irritates me the most is they don't even bother to ask what to do with the bootloader when installing Windows, or at least the option is hidden behind some guru magic not supported by the installer GUI. Leave an old windows boot drive plugged in while doing a fresh install on another drive, and the installer happily uses the bootloader on the old drive without ever even mentioning it. Since it is so easy to make this mistake you'd think Microsoft offered a tool to move the bootloader to a different drive, but nope.

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