#How to switch between linux mint and windows?

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teal veldt
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just installed linux mint and tried to go back to windows but idk how

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@surreal trench hi

surreal trench
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Does that happen?

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If no, then hold/spam Shift right after you power it on

teal veldt
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no

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oh

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aight hold on

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shift didn't do anything

surreal trench
# teal veldt shift didn't do anything

Hmm. May not be a thing in legacy booting. Every sane person uses the modern one and Im not sure how to proceed with this. Your PC has an option to select a boot device, usually a key like F12 or F11. After you power on your system spam these keys. Here, select Windows.

teal veldt
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i did windows boot manager and it still sent me to linux

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I only use legacy since my laptop didn't pick up windows

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teal veldt
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uefi

surreal trench
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well, I don't think changing the boot method would do anything. make sure that you have CSM or compatibly mode disabled in bios though

teal veldt
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there's only uh legacy support option

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If it's related uh, mint couldn't mount the windows volume thing

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teal veldt
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ohhh

surreal trench
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and how did you choose windows? can you show a screen picture of it too? according to the above, it only has OS Boot Manager

teal veldt
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is this safe?

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teal veldt
surreal trench
# teal veldt is this safe?

Generally yes. I imagine you already have a backup of the most important photos and videos. It's just a warning that it something was to go wrong, it'll go

teal veldt
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uhm

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well i just have to pray then

surreal trench
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lmao

teal veldt
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oh it just insta successful

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teal veldt
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yeah i can access the files

surreal trench
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grere

teal veldt
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teal veldt
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i meant what do i show

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teal veldt
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the boot device thing?

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teal veldt
surreal trench
# teal veldt

selecting the 2nd position seriosuly gets you to Linux?

teal veldt
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yes seriously

surreal trench
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okay. try again, if that gets you to Linux then

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grep menuentry /boot/grub/grub.cfg

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send the output of this command

teal veldt
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permission denied

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oh

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no such file

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wai I put a comma

viral plaza
teal veldt
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no wonder why

viral plaza
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all u have to do (in case u dont see the GRUB boot menu) is run the plain bootable usb again, and run the boot repair app from the live mint desktop

teal veldt
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oh huh

viral plaza
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dual booting is very easily possible on MBR/Legacy systems.

teal veldt
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good thing i didn't format it already then

teal veldt
surreal trench
viral plaza
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viral plaza
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u should already be seeing that GRUB menu, when u choose ur hard drive as ur first legacy boot device in BIOS.

teal veldt
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yeah I see the grub menu

viral plaza
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do u get the 2 os's showing up in it?

teal veldt
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linux mint 22 and advanced options for linux mint 22

teal veldt
viral plaza
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run boot repair like I said

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make SURE u run the USB up like last time, in pure legacy mode.

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should look similar to this when you're done.

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teal veldt
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yup

viral plaza
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fixed?

teal veldt
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nope

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"can't find command drivemap"
"Invalid EFI file path"

surreal trench
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teal veldt
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dangit

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viral plaza
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the way u can tell how the USB got booted, is in the Boot Repair app, do a summary report, then read it.. look at the UEFI paragraph, it will say how the USB drive is booted.

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surreal trench
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or efibootmgr in terminal, faster 😅

viral plaza
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wait.. we did earlier see Windows 10 ran in legacy mode.

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it was one of the first checks I did.

teal veldt
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preparing automatic repair wha

surreal trench
teal veldt
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yeah

viral plaza
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it's just a matter that the boot repair environment runs as legacy

surreal trench
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how??

viral plaza
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can always do the summary report from it

teal veldt
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Oh my god I'm back

viral plaza
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ok. so u can just use the bootmenu key at POST to choose, if ur not seeing windows in grub option

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editing the grub file and checking that os-prober is NOT commented out and NOT negated would likely also work

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but honestly, boot repair should take care of that, (it runs os prober during its diagnostic moment)

teal veldt
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do I need to keep the bootable usb

viral plaza
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i would. what program did u make it with?

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@teal veldt

teal veldt
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balena etcher

viral plaza
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remake it with ventoy, all default options, then put the Mint ISO back onto it

teal veldt
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Oh

viral plaza
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then u can at least use the usb drive for other stuff too

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plus have an emergency boot disk

teal veldt
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yeah I wanted to use it as extra storage

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aight thank you

viral plaza
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yeah u can get ventoy on either Windows or Linux

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see "thiojoe ventoy" on youtube for the simple demo

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or "tech hut ventoy" for the linux install demo

teal veldt
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weird, google stuff won't load but other sites work

viral plaza
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what OS / browser this on?

teal veldt
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chrome

viral plaza
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on Linux?

teal veldt
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windows

viral plaza
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kek

teal veldt
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kinda funny

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surreal trench
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it's usually the other way around

teal veldt
viral plaza
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is your government oppressing your right to open information?

teal veldt
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oh they banned duckduckgo but def not google

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teal veldt
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yeah bing works

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It's just google stuff for some reason

viral plaza
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might be down a bit

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in your region.

surreal trench
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apparently it was down a few hrs ago but is up now

viral plaza
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this will also undo the READ-ONLY DVD mode that etcher did on ur usb stick.

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which for silly inexplicable reason, Windows format tools can't seem to undo.

teal veldt
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lol

viral plaza
teal veldt
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Huh there's a user guide?

viral plaza
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the new versions of Mint give this wonderful PDF document included anywhere. So view that one I sent, it's got great info especially on page 21 onward

teal veldt
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I'll def check it out

viral plaza
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Etcher must've been set to do that.. if u use Ventoy in defaults (MBR partition scheme during its setup) it should have avoided that but leave it as is if you want.

teal veldt
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the fact that all the issues stem from being in legacy mode

viral plaza
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u could convert it all but u'd have to backup all your important data

teal veldt
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is it worth the hassle?

viral plaza
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nah

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if u have the F9 key to handle things, ur good

teal veldt
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lol

viral plaza
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however I WOULD strongly urge u to make that ventoy usb

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and put TWO things on it

teal veldt
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yea i'm tryin to

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2 things??

viral plaza
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yes, the Linux Mint 22 ISO (emergency)

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and Hirens Boot CD PE ISO

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it will be an absolute lifesaver if your Windows NTFS volumes go screwy on u

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(plus backup ur files)

viral plaza
# teal veldt 2 things??

ventoy is a multiboot 'loader' so u can have both those ISOs bootable to you on that same USB stick should something go very bad and u cant boot either operating system on the SSD

teal veldt
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i see

viral plaza
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Hirens gives the simple Win 10 interface

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which can let u do disk scan from its command prompt

teal veldt
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does it also allow the usb to behave like a normal usb

viral plaza
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and that alone can be used to correct NTFS messups

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teal veldt
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so store in persistence folder and ISOs in ISO folder?

viral plaza
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not necessary

teal veldt
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Oh

viral plaza
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persistence is something else (optional)

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you can just make a Data folder

teal veldt
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makes sense lol

viral plaza
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or 10 of them

teal veldt
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how about "extra storage"

viral plaza
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ya

teal veldt
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I only need to put the iso in the folder right?

viral plaza
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u can put any bootable ISO anywhere in the blank ventoy partition

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or in their own folder named ISO just for neatness

teal veldt
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neat

viral plaza
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then test boot it and so u know it works before an emergency.

teal veldt
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