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Windows eats partitions for breakfast (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So, long story ahead...

Couple weeks ago Windows screwed me over by converting a disk to dynamic disk (whatever that means) when trying to extend a partition, making it impossible to boot to Linux since whatever format is used for dynamic disks is proprietary, also, it just plain removed my GRUB from existence.

Then when trying to roll that back with obscure methods (since Microsoft claims in all their documentation and forums that the only way to roll back to basic disk is by wiping and reformatting) I ended up with two conflicting partition tables!

Long story short(er) I painfully backed up everything, took my chance on the MBR table since it looked the least scary of the two (luckily I was right), and reinstalled GRUB from a bootable USB.

I lost a Saturday on that shit and learned to never touch a single drive from Windows ever again.

PS: Always back up your data regularly, because fuck me Windows makes existing almost intolerable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I've been using systemd-boot instead during the last time I had to dual boot which lasted for like 2 years

Windows didn't interfere with systemd-boot at all and stood the test of time even after the many updates

(Probably because Lennard Poettering now work for Microsoft)