• kadu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      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).