[SOLVED] My Windows Thin PC doesn't boot anymore after installing Arch

imm0nv1nhtv · 2023-09-17 12:41:47

While I was using Arch, I noticed that my Windows Thin PC (7) installation doesn't boot anymore and the error is winload.exe not found in Windows\System32 and blah blah
And, I use GRUB 2 (not the legacy one)
Well, I tried many stuff but it doesn't work
Even tho, winload.exe does **EXIST** in the installation
(I actually manually installed Arch)
EDIT: Sorry for my bad English
EDIT 2: It's solved now.

Last edited by imm0nv1nhtv (2023-09-19 12:20:25)

bonkmaykr · 2023-09-17 15:24:42

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Is this an MBR or a GPT disk?

Can you paste the result of lsblk? Please also give us a rundown of the commands you ran during installation (especially anything to do with fdisk, gdisk, mount, or anything in "/dev/").

Last edited by bonkmaykr (2023-09-17 15:37:46)

imm0nv1nhtv · 2023-09-18 05:38:02

bonkmaykr wrote:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Is this an MBR or a GPT disk?
Can you paste the result of lsblk? Please also give us a rundown of the commands you ran during installation (especially anything to do with fdisk, gdisk, mount, or anything in "/dev/").

It's an MBR disk

I forgot the commands I ran but here's lsblk's output

[user@arch-pc ~]$ sudo lsblk
[sudo] password for user: [it's empty]
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 74.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0    1K  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 26.7G  0 part /run/media/user/Data
├─sda3   8:3    0  7.5G  0 part 
└─sda5   8:5    0 40.3G  0 part /
[user@arch-pc ~]$

sda3 is the Windows partition
Well, I used the partition from my Debian installation, so I didn't do fdisk or cfdisk (I formatted it before installing Arch)

Last edited by imm0nv1nhtv (2023-09-18 05:48:02)

bonkmaykr · 2023-09-18 06:23:34

imm0nv1nhtv wrote:

sda      8:0    0 74.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0    1K  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 26.7G  0 part /run/media/user/Data
├─sda3   8:3    0  7.5G  0 part 
└─sda5   8:5    0 40.3G  0 part /

sda3 is the Windows partition

7GB is small, even for Windows Thin. Did you resize sda3?
Since you're sure that the files are still there, were you able to mount the partition to somewhere in /mnt/ with ntfs-3g?

As this isn't a Windows forum I can't really provide much help on the Windows side, but I'd suggest having a look at this thread and telling us if it helps at all: https://superuser.com/questions/1204290 … ther-drive

imm0nv1nhtv · 2023-09-18 07:49:03

bonkmaykr wrote:

imm0nv1nhtv wrote:
sda      8:0    0 74.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0    1K  0 part 
├─sda2   8:2    0 26.7G  0 part /run/media/user/Data
├─sda3   8:3    0  7.5G  0 part 
└─sda5   8:5    0 40.3G  0 part /
sda3 is the Windows partition
7GB is small, even for Windows Thin. Did you resize sda3?
Since you're sure that the files are still there, were you able to mount the partition to somewhere in /mnt/ with ntfs-3g?
As this isn't a Windows forum I can't really provide much help on the Windows side, but I'd suggest having a look at this thread and telling us if it helps at all: https://superuser.com/questions/1204290 … ther-drive

Yes, I resized sda3
I was able to mount it

[root@arch-pc user]# cd /mnt
[root@arch-pc mnt]# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
[root@arch-pc mnt]# ls
[root@arch-pc mnt]# cd /mnt
[root@arch-pc mnt]# ls
'$RECYCLE.BIN'   Boot      config.sys                Intel    MSDOS.SYS      PerfLogs     'Program Files'  'System Volume Information'   Windows
 autoexec.bat    bootmgr  'Documents and Settings'   IO.SYS   pagefile.sys   ProgramData   Regfdata         Users
[root@arch-pc mnt]#

And, when I tried to mount to /mnt/Windows

[root@arch-pc ~]# cd /mnt
[root@arch-pc mnt]# mkdir Windows
[root@arch-pc mnt]# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/Windows
[root@arch-pc mnt]# cd Windows
[root@arch-pc Windows]# ls
'$RECYCLE.BIN'   Boot      config.sys                Intel    MSDOS.SYS      PerfLogs     'Program Files'  'System Volume Information'   Windows
 autoexec.bat    bootmgr  'Documents and Settings'   IO.SYS   pagefile.sys   ProgramData   Regfdata         Users
[root@arch-pc Windows]#

It still works.
EDIT: Looks like I still got the same error and the post didn't help at all
Maybe I need to reinstall Windows...

Last edited by imm0nv1nhtv (2023-09-18 08:31:38)

i6n8pn3g · 2023-09-18 12:08:57

Did you resize before installing Arch? I am not sure how MBR work but it might reference the "location" of the "boot files" instead of the partition thus resizing breaks the MBR, you can simply fix the MBR instead of installing. Don't quote me on that though, haven't really touched MBR.

imm0nv1nhtv · 2023-09-18 13:27:50

i6n8pn3g wrote:

Did you resize before installing Arch? I am not sure how MBR work but it might reference the "location" of the "boot files" instead of the partition thus resizing breaks the MBR, you can simply fix the MBR instead of installing. Don't quote me on that though, haven't really touched MBR.

Yep. I resized before installing Arch

imm0nv1nhtv · 2023-09-19 07:07:38

Looks like reinstalling solved the thing
Thanks y'all

bonkmaykr · 2023-09-20 21:00:52

Reinstalling Windows seems like a workaround solution rather than tackling the root problem. In the case where someone else runs into this problem and doesn't want to reinstall, they can't really use this thread for help.

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#1 2023-09-17 12:41:47

[SOLVED] My Windows Thin PC doesn't boot anymore after installing Arch

#2 2023-09-17 15:24:42

Re: [SOLVED] My Windows Thin PC doesn't boot anymore after installing Arch

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