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Tried to dual boot W11 & Ubuntu & bricked my PC
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Install Windows again, then install Linux.
Windows is annoying with it's bootloader, but when you have separate drive, it would be way smoother experience.
That is overkill. They just need to reinstall Ubuntu into the same partition
Or better yet:
gparted, wipe every partition of the disk~~dskmng, shrink Windows by the needed amount (having another OS shrink it might break it)Windows can wipe everything on its own
True, fixed
If it's on the same drive, after updates, Windows will try to 'fix' ~~that you have another OS~~ itself, and remove GRUB.
Windows generally isn't removing grub, it's just switching the EFI boot priority. You can change that back in bios, or with efibootmgr.
If you still use MBR, and Windows has an update to its bootloader, yeah.
I don't even know if Windows 11 still supports MBR, though. Maybe it'll happen if your firmware is broken and always boots from the fallback bootloader instead of the normal boot entry? But in that case Windows is right and the firmware needs an update.