Serious boot problems with windows and bazzite dual boot
Hey,
This is a long story, but to keep it short, my pc can't boot into windows after a crash in bazzite that froze my pc entirely and forced me to hard restart it
After that crash windows did it's usual "Check Disk for problems", it was stuck on 100% for a couple of hours
I had to restart it again, and now it's stuck on "Diagnosing your pc" state, and by stuck I mean I gave it 12 hours to finish it's "Diagnosis", and it did nothing.
At that point I couldn't boot into windows, which is serious in itself since I haven't finished migrating into bazzite and I had some work left there
Then I tried booting into bazzite, and at start I couldn't even do that, I got a blank screen and couldn't even revert to previous state
Seems like only ostree 0 worked, and the usual issues I had were just happening a lot frequently (main reason why it took me so long to migrate)
These include:
- Gnome crashing and freezing without any way for me to use my mouse/keyboard/open any app
- Screen/apps glitching when opening apps like steam or discord
- Computer restarting without any notification/warning, just like a hard restart
- Apps just crashing, EasyEffects/Spotify/Bottles
It is weird to see the problems happening less often when I'm using one screen with 100% scaling and without the bluetooth adapter. But I'm still encountering these and numerous other issues pretty frequently
TLDR: I just want my windows installation that is installed on my other samsung 980 pro to work, and potentially if I have to I'll disable the disk scanning it does, because that happens every time I boot to bazzite (didn't happen on fedora tho)
And I want the bazzite installation that is installed on my samsung 870 QVO to not break anything on my other drive, people say it has to do with my 4070 Ti Gaming OC that I'm using, but I have the latest 560 nvidia drivers so I shouldn't face that many problems with this I think
Would appreciate any help!
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did you run RAM and smart checks?
I would've if I had access to windows utilities, can you guide me over how I can check my hardware for any problems like what you mentioned? could also be the drive even though I can access it
you said you have 2 drives
Yes
do you mount the ntfs drive in linux?
Nope but I can mount it
you cant run memory tests in win
https://www.memtest.org you need a usb drive with this
Memtest86+
Memtest86+ | The Open-Source Memory Testing Tool
Memtest86+ is an advanced, free, open-source, stand-alone memory tester for 32- and 64-bit computers (UEFI & BIOS supported)
you can use ventoy
stop using your computer until you test your ram
So I need to install this into a flash drive
boot into it through the bios and let it run the tests?
yes
On it
only do halfway you dont need 100%
if the ram has failed you will know soon enough
can you help me debug, for some reason after installing the utility to a flash drive using ventoy bios doesn't detect it
installing?
ventoy?
flash ventoy with its exe
then stick memtest in it
or skip ventoy