AngelHalo
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•Created by AngelHalo on 3/14/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help
Installed Bazzite OS, now cannot boot from other drives.
I am using a PC with four different storage drives, having been using Windows 11 for over a year now. I decided to spare one of those drives to try out Bazzite OS to transition towards Linux gaming, making sure to allow it to reformat and erase everything on that one storage drive and nothing else. It appears to work! However, I find myself unable to boot into Windows 11. Strangely, the storage drive containing the partition and everything within it appears to be intact, but my ASRock utility menu doesn't appear to recognize it as a boot drive, and it appears I cannot find it in my boot menu period.
Did I do something wrong during installation? Is there a way to access my windows 11 OS again?
Update: Adding some more information
- Installation type is with desktop nvidia rtx, KDE Plasma, and Steam Game mode enabled.
- Secure Boot is off.
- One m.2 containing windows is present, and needed to be mounted every time I boot
- System Update was ran.
- Followed instructions below, which was to click the drive to mount in dolphin, invoke grub in terminal, set grub to appear every boot, then reboot. Grub never shows up and it goes straight to Bazzite.
- Fast boot was enabled initially. Did disable and try to mount the drive and regenerate grub again, but it had no effect.
- I am considering running off a Windows USB and run a repair next chance I get, which will be in the evening. I have every intention of wanting this to he a dual boot situation.
Final Update: It is likely that my windows partition wasn't a UEFI partition, but a CSM/Legacy one. Only options I had is to either
1) Mess with my bios.
2) Perform a fix that involves shrinking the partition and flag the new partition created from the shrinkage (which didn't work for me due to an error), found here https://discord.com/channels/1072614816579063828/1349914185806516386/1350328612540383253
3) Reinstall Windows, making sure CSM is turned off prior.
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