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Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
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[–] BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. Never happened to me either. But I usually make a sperate UEFI partition for Linux instead of relying on grub.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It can still happen. Your UEFI settings are accessible from the system. That's part of the standard. So Windows sometimes rewrites these settings to make itself the default again.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is true for me now, but for years I used dual boot on old BIOS based systems so idk /shrug

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's actually more safe. Windows can rewrite the UEFI setting to make itself the default again (although that's of course easy to fix). But it can't change your BIOS boot order.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

It never did so in updates for me, but assuming it did, UEFI stuff is fixable, just mess with the settings for five seconds :P

[–] Tag365@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

When I booted into Windows 8.1 on my 2016 desktop computer, it immediately destroyed my boot loader for Ubuntu making it impossible to boot. I can't confirm if it was BIOS or UEFI though. I had to use a convoluted technique to restore the boot loader for it to load Ubuntu afterwards each time I ran Windows.