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    That's why we need two ssds for dual boot (lemmy.world)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    i use a different drive for my windows installation because that happened to often,
    and i swear it once managed to whipe the bootloader on the linux drive.

    i have no idea how it did that,
    but i avoided starting windows using the grub entry since then.

    [–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    Having two drives is sometimes not enough, either. I have no idea why, but anytime Windows installs for the first time or goes through a major update (not the small security patches, but the periodic feature releases) there's a random D20 dice throw to determine if it will randomly decide to create the bootloader and recovery partitions in another drive, even though your main installation isn't there.

    I kid you not, Windows 10 once decided that my external SSD enclosure was the best place to put the bootloader.

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    This happened to me! Did an update, unplugged my eSATA and BAM! Can't find bootloader. I literally, physically facepalmed when I realized what happened. At least the old one still worked from the primary.

    I've done a ton of Linux updates and this has never happened to me once (yet).