I know this is a Linux magazine but I can’t really find a lot of resources on this.

I installed fedora kinite on a second hard drive, intending to dual boot with windows, after the install finished it looks like it removed my windows boot loader.

Has anyone run into this and if so how did you correct it?

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    11 hours ago

    I did too, I had installed with 2 drives, Windows first, then Kinoite, but the problem was that Windows automatically put its bootloader on drive 1 even if the OS was installed to drive 2, so when I installed Kinoite on disk 1, it naturally wiped everything that was on there.
    My stupid easy solution was to reinstall Windows on drive 2 again, but with drive 1 disconnected from the PC at installation time, so it couldn’t mess up, other answers here might be more refined (no pun intended) though, if you prefer/need to salvage the Windows system and can’t just delete it.
    Mine actually wasn’t that easy either, because the drive was ButLocker encrypted, so before I could proceed to destroy everything, to save my files, I also needed to boot from Linux, mount the drive, decrypt with the BitLocker key and copy over the files to drive 2