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UPDATE: So after I broke grub, I tried reinstalling Fedora. Now windows has disappeared from BIOS (lemmy.ca)
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EDIT: So after all that, I was able to reinstall windows and download Macrium reflect + my backup. First time I tried to recover it, it failed for some reason, but the second time around I was able to restore it successfully. I'm now back where I started, thank you everyone!

I'm not done with Linux yet, but I think I'm going to try and run it in a good VM for the time being. When I'm done with classes, or when I get a separate device, I will give it another go.

Post 1: https://lemmy.ca/post/3709382

Post 2: https://lemmy.ca/post/3863438

Yesterday I could at least change the order in the BIOS to boot windows. Now I can't even do that.

I think when reinstalling, I must have overwritten something (the EFI?). I saw some other people that had a very similar experience, and the advice was to reinstall Windows. I'm currently downloading Windows installation media on another computer and I'm going to try and reinstall windows now.

This just keeps getting worse and worse, and thank you for the help while I struggle through this.

If anyone has other tips, I'd appreciate it :)

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[–] Delta_44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All computers since the late-Windows 7 era use UEFI.

That's why I hated the extra step that I had to do to not corrupt the UEFI while installing a Linux distro years ago... All this new stuff that just locks you and limits you.

Things are better sometimes but in this case they're not.

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally reinstalled Windows yesterday and systemd-boot went nowhere. Something's wrong with your UEFI implementation. Another laptop I have (HP 2000 Notebook PC, will ALWAYS boot the Microsoft folder if it exists, and there's no ESP. I had to rename the folder.

And by "corrupt the UEFI", do you really know what you're talking about? It's the ESP that contains the bootloaders.

[–] Delta_44@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hold on, I think I didn't explain myself properly.

I've never had any problem, the problem that existed years ago was that you had to manually change things to accomodate UEFI, while installing a Linux distro.

For example, while installing Ubuntu you had to press a key during the splash screen and boot there. It was a simple fix that you had to do while booting the ISO, but it was something not widely known.

And by “corrupt the UEFI”, do you really know what you’re talking about?

Unfortunately not, but I've read that this was a thing, since I didn't want to fry my €1400 laptop I did this simple thing. Later I've seen that this problem was fixed, but I'm talking about years ago, 2019 or so.