Post 1: https://lemmy.ca/post/3709382

Post 2: https://lemmy.ca/post/3863438

Yesterday I could at least change the order in the BIOS to boot windows. Now I can’t even do that.

I think when reinstalling, I must have overwritten something (the EFI?). I saw some other people that had a very similar experience, and the advice was to reinstall Windows. I’m currently downloading Windows installation media on another computer and I’m going to try and reinstall windows now.

This just keeps getting worse and worse, and thank you for the help while I struggle through this.

If anyone has other tips, I’d appreciate it :)

  • nottheengineer@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    Are you booting in legacy BIOS or UEFI mode?

    Legacy only supports one bootloader per drive, which should be grub. If you’re in legacy mode, windows was probably thrown out of there so it doesn’t show up anymore. Grub can still call the windows bootloader if you configure it accordingly.

    The arch wiki page on grub has a section explaining the details.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s UEFI from what I can tell, at least that’s what comes up in the BIOS

      • Mythnubb@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        In your BIOS do you have the option to add a new boot entry?

        On my Dell laptop, I lost my Windows boot option once, but all I had to do was go into the BIOS, add a new boot option, and point it to the Windows EFI loader: EFI\Boot\Microsoft\bootmgrfw.efi

        (I’m going off memory, so I could be off slightly with the path)