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That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is that actually easily fixable? Was planning to go dual-boot soon on my laptop and haven't even considered this scenario.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's relatively quick and easy to fix if you have a live boot Linux usb stick ...and probably a second machine so you can Google what to do. It's just also rather worrying at the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My old thinkpads have this great feature where the hard drive is easilly accessible on the side, so I leave the cover off and just swap the drive to boot into a different os

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

iirc the last time it happened to me, i just needed to fix the uefi entry which wasnt that bad.
(just remember to have a usb stick with a live image ready)

if it were to overwrite your bootloader that would be a way harder fix.

i dont remember if the second ever happend to me