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[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

Is that actually easily fixable? Was planning to go dual-boot soon on my laptop and haven't even considered this scenario.

[-] Teppic@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's relatively quick and easy to fix if you have a live boot Linux usb stick ...and probably a second machine so you can Google what to do. It's just also rather worrying at the time.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

My old thinkpads have this great feature where the hard drive is easilly accessible on the side, so I leave the cover off and just swap the drive to boot into a different os

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

iirc the last time it happened to me, i just needed to fix the uefi entry which wasnt that bad.
(just remember to have a usb stick with a live image ready)

if it were to overwrite your bootloader that would be a way harder fix.

i dont remember if the second ever happend to me

this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2024
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