• KillingTimeItself
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    47 months ago

    don’t worry, microsoft never figured out how to write bootloader installation software.

    It can not only, install itself onto a slower, hdd, but also completely wipe any additional drives you have hooked up at the time of installation.

    The fact that this STILL isn’t fixed is baffling to me.

    • exu
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      17 months ago

      Is this still an issue with UEFI nowadays? The other bootloader should still be selectable in the bootmenu if it wasn’t overwritten.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        17 months ago

        well you see that’s the problem, windows doesn’t believe in this cute little thing called following standard, so sometimes it just fucking yeets that shit, taking the bootloader with it, because keep in mind, when you dual boot on the same drive. You usually end up using grub to dualboot between linux and windows, which windows doesn’t like.

        And as for installs, some updates are basically installs, so who knows what the fuck kinda bullshit windows will be doing then. And like i said, if you ever do a clean install on a system with other disks, you better hope you get lucky.