Hey guys, after 2 years since my last attempt (and recently trying fedora on my laptop) Im ready to try again to install it on my desktop. First time I installed Nobara and it nuked my windows boots partition which caused a lot of trouble and trauma (couldnt boot into windows no matter what). Basically I want to accomplish this:

1- I want to install Fedora on a separate drive and keep my windows drive completely intact (Need it for work).
2- Preferably I would like GRUB to ask which boot option I want to use if my linux drive is set to be my boot drive and to boot straight to windows if its my windows drive set to boot.

Can someone please guide me into installing it the safest way possible?

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    4·
    1 day ago

    Dunno what sort of setup you have, but what I would do, considering my setup and by being a tad on the neurotic side, is to unscrew and detatch any drives but the one to be flashed. This, I think, is the only way to be absolutely sure nothing goes in the wrong place.

    • Dagnet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I would need to dismantle almost everything and would lose the heatsink past on my nvme too, I will just try disabling it since I dont really see how that would be different from removing, not like the fedora installer can mess with my bios settings no?

      • Auster@thebrainbin.org
        1·
        24 hours ago

        Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/

        • Dagnet@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?

          • Domi@lemmy.secnd.me
            1·
            9 hours ago

            Do you mean your Windows boot partition?

            Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.

            The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.

            You’re gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.

            • Dagnet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been