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  • This method shouldn’t have anything to do with what distro you’re gonna be using as the fix itself happens in Windows.

    It’s a Windows fix relevant for dual booting Linux.

    Edit: I used this exact method when I had two Windows installs on different drives and wanted to remove the original one from my system. Back in the Windows 7 days.

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  • This is a completely different scenario?

    As I wrote earlier. Windows doesn’t make a new EFI boot partition if there’s one on your system already. Regardless which drive it’s on and which drive you choose to install Windows to. It’s always been that way, I just forgot when I installed Linux on my old Windows drive and reinstalled Windows on a new drive. So when you do install Linux again after this, and choose automatic partitioning, it formats the EFI partition Windows used.

    My solution is just how you move the Windows EFI partition and it’s files to a different drive, effectively isolating the Windows boot loader completely from the Linux drive.

    I can chose which OS to boot into either by changing boot order in the BIOS, selecting it in the BIOS boot menu or in Linux’s Grub menu.

  • Not sure what you mean here. This issue is related to moving Windows’s boot files to a different drive. Only relevant if you want to use the automatic partition option while installing a distro.

    Booting in BIOS won’t make any difference whatsoever if the boot loader is gone.

  • I prefer to just move the Windows boot loader so that I don’t have to even think about it. Having Windows’ EFI completely separated is a much better solution in my opinion. But both solutions work all the same.

  • No worries! 😁

    The issue is more or less 100% my own fault. And my solution is just a quick an easy fix to keep it from ever becoming an issue again(hopefully) on my system. I’m now free to format however I see fit on the disk I have Linux on.

    If you manually make partitions during the Linux install or just install Windows before making any partitions at all, this is not gonna be an issue.

  • This solution took all about 2 minutes. Now it won’t matter what I do when I reinstall Linux. My Windows boot is not on that same drive any more.

    If I would have known my Windows boot was on the M.2 drive I install Linux on, I would not tell the Linux installer to format that drive, obviously.

    It’s an Issue I created myself by not thinking about Windows’ limitations. But this solution is pretty quick if you already reinstalled Windows again.

    1. I know, it’s just way easier to reinstall.
    2. I didn’t know Windows installed it’s boot loader on the Linux drive until after I formatted the drive. So see point 1.
    3. Grub didn’t show the Windows boot loader because it was deleted. After reinstalling Windows it shows up again.

    You comment comes off as pretty hostile, why?

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