Post #3590837
2026-07-04 21:26 UTC
The fat32 formated partitions are EFI System Partitions used to boot your PC. I assume that sda3 is the one Windows created, while a later Linux install created sda5 as an alternative. Yet sda5 doesn’t seem to be really used (with that cute 9MB used), so your Linux boot stuff -including a bootloader that would allow you to start Windows (or you picking directly from EFI?)- is probably all sitting alongside Windows’ EFI stuff in sda3.
In fact I wouldn’t touch anything there without some backup.
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@Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 2026-07-05 20:08
I have changed the partitions and all seems to work but I still get the bootloader menu with the Windows option even though there is no Windows partition. Not a huge problem, but it is a little annoying I can’t remove references to Windows without risking breaking my setup.