A little story about windows. I know it’s partially my fault but Microsoft just hates it users.
So I was running dual boot an messed up the boot loader. A quick fix and I was back to Linux.
When I wanted to boot windows the bootloader was damaged and I couldn’t fix it with windows repair tools.
So I thought: ok just install the snapshot windows found. Worst case they delete windows right?
Well it told that it will reformat the boot partition and no more info. It took a suspicious amount of time and when I booted it I was in windows and all ALL of my connected drives where formatted. No question asked just wiped the whole system!
Fuck you Windows!
This is one of the reasons why my Windows bootloader is currently broken. I made a similar mistake a few years ago, and now I don’t have the mental energy to make sure that everything’s ready in case Windows screws up again
Still to this day I have to open my case and disconnect all but the windows ssd before (re)installing windows.
Just here to spread the cult of systemd-boot. Reject the illness that GRUB hath wrought upon our people and extend your mastery over even the bootloader itself.
Windows has no power here.
systemd? No thanks. I prefer rEFInd.
rEFInd? No thanks. I prefer Uboot
Uboot? No thanks, I prefer a paper tape loader attached to my serial port.
Paper loader? No thanks, I prefer entering the kernel into memory via dip switches
I just keep that trash OS Windows off of my drives.
Bold of you to assume that dual boot is only for 1 Linux distro and 1 Window$. You can have multiple distros. Also rEFInd have an option to boot into UEFI instead of remembering which button to hold. So you don’t even have to have multiple OSes.
Uboot? No thanks, I prefer EFISTUB.
Yea, I ran into this issue a while back when I dual booted Windows for something I don’t remember. I was blissfully ignorant when installing Windows on my system that had been running Linux for a while, got a separate SSD for it and everything. So I selected the empty SSD figuring everything Windows will be installed on it only to discover a month later that after formatting an HDD that I use for media storage that the Windows boot loader is gone…
Manually installing the Windows boot loader is not fun.
A worrying thing is I think Windows can even muck with (your Linux) bootloader files during updates i e. after you have reconnected your primary ssd.
