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Universal Blue•5d ago
JAK3CHAMB3RS

I messed up my windows install

Hey so I installed bazzite onto my second drive and then loaded it up and installed but now windows is not in my bios menu anymore im not sure what happened is there any fix or am i going to need to reinstall windows
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Riv
Riv•4d ago
Hey, this is relatively common I think. The install moved your boot files to the linux drive. Try this: List out your current drives with: sudo fdisk -l You should still see your drive connected that has windows on it, take a note of the name, I'll be something like /dev/nvme: 256GiB or something Then to double check that you didn't accidentally wipe it, you can mount it in linux and check the files are still all there with: Replce /dev/nvme with your actual drive name from above 
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows
sudo mount /dev/nvme /mnt/windows
ls /mnt/windows
sudo mkdir /mnt/windows
sudo mount /dev/nvme /mnt/windows
ls /mnt/windows
If your ls command showed a bunch of stuff then the drive is still fine. Next step will be to use the efibootmgr tool to check windows or add the boot manager back. Let me know how the above goes first
JAK3CHAMB3RS
JAK3CHAMB3RSOP•4d ago
Ok i will do this thank you this seems like good advice Is Any of this info from the terminal not ok to share online? If not ill send a ss of this rq because im a little confused Ive messed with it pretty sure windows got overwritten somewhere along my install process thanks for the help
Riv
Riv•4d ago
Noooo Nothing here would be bad to share really It's just local names of drives etc Are all your windows files gone from that drive?
JAK3CHAMB3RS
JAK3CHAMB3RSOP•4d ago
Yeah its just showing linux files installed bazzite twice somehow on both my ssds literally no idea how that happened but I completely cleared my c drive so now ill just install windows on there and set up a grub and everything i think it’ll all work out

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