Solution: When I formatted all my drives to install Linux on one and Windows on the other, I kept both connected and they share EFI boot partition as a result. Every time I reinstall Linux it formats the drive and therefore deletes the Windows’s EFI Boot as well. One way is to fix this is to reinstall Windows while disconnecting the drive you have Linux on. Or you can move the boot files if you don’t want to do that.
I used this guide: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/changing-windows-boot-manager-drive.3571420/post-21561626
Also remember to delete the Microsoft folder in the boot folder on Linux after you’ve checked that the new boot loader is working.
OP:
Currently dual booting as I need Windows for a few tasks and ganes Linux just won’t do. Since setting everything up I’ve reinstalled Linux twice, both times I’ve lost the ability to boot into windows and have needed to reinstall it.
Disk doesn’t show at all in Grub, tried all kinds of things but it just doesn’t show as a bootable OS. It doesn’t show in the boot options in the BIOS or the boot menu for my motherboard. Drive shows up and all the files are still on it. So my guess is the Windows bootloader somehow installs on the same disk that I have Linux on.
I run Linux(Fedora) and Windows on two separate drives.
Windows take forever to install. Anything I can do now to prevent this from happening if I need to reinstall Linux or if I wanna to some distro hopping?
Just to be clear, everything is working right now. But I want to prevent having to reinstall Windows every time I change distro or reinstall my Linux OS
What Linux distro are you using? To make it not erase the Windows boot manager from the EFI partition simply manually partition, and do NOT mark the EFI partition for formatting, then Linux will add it’s own but NOT erase Windows.
I prefer to just move the Windows boot loader so that I don’t have to even think about it. Having Windows’ EFI completely separated is a much better solution in my opinion. But both solutions work all the same.