I have in fact never had or seen this problem, and I’m quite bewildered by so many people having it. Do your normal windows updates do it? Or transition between major Windows versions? Or is it just a Win 11 problem?
I’ve pretty much always used a dual boot Win/Linux laptop, since around Vista, and I’m on 10 now (but only use it for a few games; all important things in Linux).
I’m not sure how it is now, but when I was still dual booting I had the same problem until I got a separate drive for Linux instead of just using different partitions of the same drive.
Funny enough, I think the only time I’ve run into bootloader problems on a single drive, it ended up being Linux that broke my Windows boot. Typically Windows leaves my EFI partition well enough alone during updates.
Ah, that could be it. It’s a long time since I used to resize Windows from Linux; now on a new laptop I always (…I think?!) resize from Windows to make space, unless it’s a friend’s laptop with extra D/E/etc partitions I can delete or resize one.
I have in fact never had or seen this problem, and I’m quite bewildered by so many people having it. Do your normal windows updates do it? Or transition between major Windows versions? Or is it just a Win 11 problem?
I’ve pretty much always used a dual boot Win/Linux laptop, since around Vista, and I’m on 10 now (but only use it for a few games; all important things in Linux).
I’m not sure how it is now, but when I was still dual booting I had the same problem until I got a separate drive for Linux instead of just using different partitions of the same drive.
Funny enough, I think the only time I’ve run into bootloader problems on a single drive, it ended up being Linux that broke my Windows boot. Typically Windows leaves my EFI partition well enough alone during updates.
Usually people have issues with this when they don’t create the partition free space for the linux partition inside windows first
Ah, that could be it. It’s a long time since I used to resize Windows from Linux; now on a new laptop I always (…I think?!) resize from Windows to make space, unless it’s a friend’s laptop with extra D/E/etc partitions I can delete or resize one.