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That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Windows has a lovely “feature” where it installs the bootloader on a secondary drive if there’s one connected. It doesn’t install it on drive 1 and drive 2, just drive 2. I always disconnect all secondary drives before installing windows for this very reason.

That said you can configure the windows bootloader to recognize your Linux (or grub) and just use that to manage booting two OSes and it’s less likely to not destroy things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How can you do that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Something along the lines of this

Supposedly easybcd supports efi now so you should be able to use that to do all the config.