• SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Whoa… this really happens?

    No, the only thing that windows might do, is reset the bootloader so it skips grub. If you’re using UEFI (which you should), you can easily restore it from your bios.

    I’ve only seen it happen on big updates, not the smaller ones.

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      1 year ago

      As an Ubuntu + Win10 dual booter I had a couple of instances where Windows update destroyed things so irreparably that live Ubuntu boot-repair failed to work, and hours of back-and-forthing error messages to Ubuntu IRC and discord support channels yielded nothing. And I’m too stupid to know any other way of fixing it, so I was SOL. Your milage may vary.

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      1 year ago

      Have had Windows remove my Grub entry plenty of times but have also had Windows “repair” partitions after a failed update which will nuke your Linux install.

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      1 year ago

      actually this has happened to me where windows fucked with the file system of both my ext4 Linux OS partition and shared ntfs data partition. A reformat and repartition was the only remedy, so reinstall of the OS and recovery from a backup of the data were required