Hi, I did some changes on my laptop Acer nitro 5. I installed an ssd, cleaned the HD (formated with a windows tool) and reinstall windows 10 on the ssd. Then installed zorin. I want to have the dual boot option, but when i turn on the comp, there are 3 (?) options, zorin, windows boot manager indicating the ssd device and windows boot manager indicating the HD. When i choose windows on ssd (and also on HD) the comp start to "repair windows" and is totally unable to inicialize the windows. Zorin runs pretty good. The only way to start windows is pressing F2, entering the bios and manually choose the boot order. I would like to find a way to dual boot, without changing the bios everytime I want to change the os.
i tryed to update grub (in zorin on terminal: sudo update-grub)
and also all the procedures indicated here Update-grub won't detect windows (UEFI issue?) - #2 by Ponce-De-Leon (basically adding the GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false to the grub file)
I read about the chain loader from grub but dont know how to see this information nor if this is the problem (and even if that problem can be solved like that).
Is there anyone that can help? Thank you all!
Just one think, when i installed zorin, i did it with advanced options, and created only 2 partitions (swap and ext4), because i wanted to install it on ssd instead of HDD because I thought it would have problems to load if i do it differently).
Maybe, I could just format my HDD again (if thats the only way, is there a better way to do so in order to really erase everything oder than using windows tools?), and reinstall zorin with the option _" Install Zorin OS alongside Windows", but would it work properly since i have a ssd and a HD on the computer? Or should I remove the HDD from the comp in order to install zorin? And Where should I put zorin in order to have a dual boot, ssd or HD (windows is on ssd)?
Regarding the installation, this is my scenario and I had no problems installing Windows and Zorin on the same SSD. I only leave the HDD for backups and files that I need to access sporadically.
My recommendation, if you choose to reinstall, is to use option "Install Zorin OS alongside Windows".
NOTE: Leave the SSD ready, with space (maybe a unallocated space at end) so that the Zorin installer can use it as an installation option. Otherwise it will offer to install on HDD. By doing this you will not need to remove the HDD during installation.
About the boot, I remember I had a similar problem. But this happened because I hadn't cleaned the HDD completely and the boot manager was finding a Windows installation on it, which no longer existed. After formatting and updating the boot manager, everything was resolved. But unfortunately I don't remember all the actions I took at the time.
Thank you very much. I reinstalled some days ago and zorin went to the HDD. I will clean it up completely (write 0 or 1) and try again. Thanks!
Just to explain the solution and the probably problem: I used to have the OS windows on HDD, i did formated it but i guess it wasnt exaclty clean. So, i cleaned (writing 0) all partitions in HDD, formated the SSD parts other than windows and started all over again - the linux part (i kept the windows on ssd as it was)- that deleted zorin from my computer. but i tried again with debian (since zorin comes from ubuntu that comes from debian)and it worked. Later i will try to install zorin again.
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