β² 472 βΌ Dualboot_irl (Art by πππππππππππππππππ) (discuss.tchncs.de) submitted 1 year ago by Yeromon@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 42 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/38448230 Source (Furaffinity)
[β] palordrolap@fedia.io 29 points 1 year ago (1 child) If you're lucky, it's still on the disk and you just need to "repair" the bootloader. If not, well, that traumatised Mr Incredible pastiche might be at least a circle of hell too pleasant. You have backups, right? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Matriks404@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children) There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition, and do anything with it, let alone delete it. No operating system does this. Replacing the bootloader is of course much more likely, but the general rule is that if you can manage to install Linux, you probably can follow basic instructions to fix GRUB or whatever your bootloader is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] palordrolap@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago (1 child) There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition I knew that was true back in the day, but I haven't tried dual booting in a long, long time. Also, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft's current incarnation to "accidentally" decide that that "empty" partition would be great for virtual memory and the hibernation image. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klajan@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago Oh Windows knows this is the EFI partition, there is a flag for that. Windows just doesn't care when it decides to nuke your bootloader with its own... And yes, it's still happening... permalink fedilink source parent [β] sykaster@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago Installing Linux is so simple nowadays that fixing the bootloader is a level higher now permalink fedilink source parent [β] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* To be fair, windows does save its license key on ROM. It writes to the read-only memory. So it could. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Matriks404@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (3 children) There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition, and do anything with it, let alone delete it. No operating system does this. Replacing the bootloader is of course much more likely, but the general rule is that if you can manage to install Linux, you probably can follow basic instructions to fix GRUB or whatever your bootloader is. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [β] palordrolap@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago (1 child) There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition I knew that was true back in the day, but I haven't tried dual booting in a long, long time. Also, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft's current incarnation to "accidentally" decide that that "empty" partition would be great for virtual memory and the hibernation image. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klajan@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago Oh Windows knows this is the EFI partition, there is a flag for that. Windows just doesn't care when it decides to nuke your bootloader with its own... And yes, it's still happening... permalink fedilink source parent [β] sykaster@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago Installing Linux is so simple nowadays that fixing the bootloader is a level higher now permalink fedilink source parent [β] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* To be fair, windows does save its license key on ROM. It writes to the read-only memory. So it could. permalink fedilink source parent
[β] palordrolap@fedia.io 12 points 1 year ago (1 child) There's no way Windows would just access non-readable partition I knew that was true back in the day, but I haven't tried dual booting in a long, long time. Also, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft's current incarnation to "accidentally" decide that that "empty" partition would be great for virtual memory and the hibernation image. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [β] Klajan@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago Oh Windows knows this is the EFI partition, there is a flag for that. Windows just doesn't care when it decides to nuke your bootloader with its own... And yes, it's still happening... permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Klajan@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago Oh Windows knows this is the EFI partition, there is a flag for that. Windows just doesn't care when it decides to nuke your bootloader with its own... And yes, it's still happening... permalink fedilink source parent
[β] sykaster@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago Installing Linux is so simple nowadays that fixing the bootloader is a level higher now permalink fedilink source parent
[β] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* To be fair, windows does save its license key on ROM. It writes to the read-only memory. So it could. permalink fedilink source parent
