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ssean

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Registered: 2019-09-16

Posts: 18

Arch & Windows 10 dual boot using systemd-boot Windows Update Problems

I'm currently dual-booting Windows 10 and Arch using systemd-boot.

Everything has been running smooth for the past year, up until recently, where Windows 10 will not install new updates. I've tried everything imaginable (on the Windows side) and recently came across the following possible solution. Does anyone have experience with this? Will this screw up systemd-boot or my EFI partition?

The following is copy/pasted. I have not yet attempted this.

What ended up fixing it was booting with the Windows 10 install/repair disk and opening up the command prompt and running the following commands:

diskpart

select disk 0 [whichever disk your windows system reserved partition is]

select partition 1 [whichever partition is your system reserved partition]

active

exit

bootrec /rebuildbcd

bootrec /fixboot

bcdboot c:\windows

I hope this helps anyone with a similar problem. For the record I had been using a dual boot system with Grub so something probably went wrong there. Also had to resize my system partition because it was only like 100MB from a previous OS so any of those things could've caused the problem.   

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,343

Re: Arch & Windows 10 dual boot using systemd-boot Windows Update Problems

Shouldn't be an issue, if push comes to shove you'd have to reinstall systemd-boot and the linux kernel package. That's the only thing that can break, though it shouldn't, Windows behaves quite well in an UEFI boot dual boot setting and won't normally overwrite existing ESP contents.