Arch Linux

xhexaust

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Registered: 2021-11-03

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] can't boot windows anymore

Hello everyone, I wanted to try installing and using arch linux yesterday, but it didn't go as expected, I had arch on my hdd and windows on my ssd, I didn't modify anything of the ssd, however I can't see window boot manager anywhere, I checked in my bios but there was only grub boot and nothing else, how can i boot windows again? Is there any screenshot I can take to show you my situation? I'm very new in this world, I thought i could manage it, but...
However I learned a lot, now i just want to double boot arch and windows together (I'm on manjaro now, formatted my hdd so I could easily use internet etc to search for answers, but didn't find anything)
I prefer not to reinstall windows since i have plenty of important university files, and I didn't think about creating a backup, my fault. I'll be more careful next time.

Thank you!

Last edited by xhexaust (2021-11-03 15:21:55)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: [SOLVED] can't boot windows anymore

An ESP can be shared between systems. Did you reformat an existing ESP partition? It's likely the Windows boot loader was stored on there which you need to restore via a Windows disk or so, but you'll find relevant steps in a google search.

In any case mount the things like you think they are correct and post

lsblk -f
efibootmgr -uv 
tree $mountpointofesp$

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

xhexaust

Member

Registered: 2021-11-03

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] can't boot windows anymore

An ESP can be shared between systems. Did you reformat an existing ESP partition? It's likely the Windows boot loader was stored on there which you need to restore via a Windows disk or so, but you'll find relevant steps in a google search.

In any case mount the things like you think they are correct and post

lsblk -f
efibootmgr -uv 
tree $mountpointofesp$

  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

Got it with windows disk, thank you!
Thought that I had to modify some .config on manjaro, but it was easier that expected!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,300

Re: [SOLVED] can't boot windows anymore

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post. Also note that we don't support Manjaro, but as I understand it that was only a temporary measure. If you opt for reinstalling Arch you should just reuse the EFI partition for installing GRUB without formatting it beforehand.

xhexaust

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Registered: 2021-11-03

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] can't boot windows anymore

Great, please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post. Also note that we don't support Manjaro, but as I understand it that was only a temporary measure. If you opt for reinstalling Arch you should just reuse the EFI partition for installing GRUB without formatting it beforehand.

Yes I know, I used it only as a temporary measure, thank you!