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    Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    In my case it wasn't the boot entry being removed. It actually ate the partition. When installing Linux Mint, I resized the Windows partition in Linux. Then I noticed that Windows absolutely didn't recognize that change, and thought its partition is still as big as it used to. Then on a restart it hit me with the "Repairing drive C:" which killed the Linux partition leaving just something corrupted.
    "Repairing"

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Windows: "Let me repair Linux for you"

    [–] Tangent5280 9 points 1 year ago

    Ew, you've got a linux on your windshield, lemme just hit the wipers for you real quick

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Have you tried first resizing the windows partition inside windows? That's what I did and my dual boot has stayed intact

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Yep, that's what I did later and it worked.