Flubbed dual boot with Zorin 16 > How to fix/reinstall without making things worse

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Ubuntu install not recognzing windows 10 hard drive but gparted and fdisk recognizies

Yes, you can run with persistence to achieve this. I recommend Ventoy highly for this. It allows a bit more freedom in Persistent Distro Use. This sounds like information that is stored in the EFI partition, to me. This may be trickier, since Zorin OS will show up as Ubuntu in this field. An option may be to simply re-install Zorin OS as normal after removing all Ubuntu entries. Boot LiveUSB, then open a terminal and run efibootmgr This will list all boot entries in the EFI partition. It s…

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UNRESOLVED - Windows + Linux multiboot system boots directly to Windows without showing the GRUB

Can I ask a question? I don't know if it is related to the topic though... One time I tried to multiboot, Windows+Ubuntu(21.10)+Zorin Lite. I installed Windows first, the Ubuntu and then Zorin Lite. The problem was, after I created all the partitions and finished install Zorin Lite, I restarted but the GRUB never appeared. Instead it booted straight into Windows. I had to delete the Linux partitions (after creating a backup of the home partition) and cleared the EFI of the linux bootloaders …