Windows on one SSD, Zorin on another SSD

It won't be an issue if you have them on separate drives.


I guess your installation happened in UEFI gpt mode while your BIOS is in legacy mode. Otherwise there is no needed for the bios_grub partition.

Your Windows is installed under Legacy mode with MBR. And as Zorin is installed in GPT, it's not detecting the Windows boot entry. First boot to Windows and launch the msinfo tool, look for the information BIOS mode. If it's legacy then Windows drive probably have MBR partitioning which doesn't have/require an efi partition.

And from Zorin share your partion layouts for both the drives. You can take screenshots from the gparted tool and use the following command:

sudo fdisk -l

Once confirmed this the case of MBR and GPT mismatch then you may try converting Zorin's grub efi to MBR:

Edit:
In your case sdXn=sdb2 and sdX=sdb

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