• Johanno@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    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!

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      11 months ago

      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

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        11 months ago

        Still to this day I have to open my case and disconnect all but the windows ssd before (re)installing windows.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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    11 months ago

    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.