[SOLVED-See Comments] My "Windows" boot entry has disappeared from the EFI menu (pawb.social)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

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Title. I dual-boot Windows and Linux. I always saw people making "WINDOWS DELETED MY LINUX BOOTLOADER OMGOMG" posts and it had never happened to me. Now, the opposite has happened. I switched from EndeavourOS to OpenSUSE and now my windows install is no longer selectable on boot.

I keep Windows in a separate drive entirely, so instead of using grub, I use the EFI's boot-select menu thingamafuck (look I don't know jargon okay?) to choose Windows when I need it.

Well today it's not there. Only the Linux entries show up. The Windows partition itself seems to be in good order, like, I can access it from within Linux no problem.

But yeah it doesn't show up on my EFI selector thingie. I imagine I could get the EFI Shell going, but I have no idea how to use THAT either.

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[-] TheOSINTguy@sh.itjust.works -3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Windows and linux are known to cause issues for each other. At minimum keep them seperaited on there on encrypted drives (I've found that drive encryption seems to conflict less for some odd reason).

But generaly do not dual boot unless you have to.

Edit, you can use chroot for this but if that doesn't work for you I hope you have backups.