Hello,

I’m uncertain if this is the right community for this but…

I recently bought an SSD to run Linux on it and have my old SSD still with Windows (see my previous post for more info). My laptop only has one slot for SSD so I bought a USB-C hub which included an SSD slot. I switched the old SSD to the USB-C Hub but now windows won’t boot. In the boot loader it does seem to recognise a Windows boot but when I do so it says there was a problem finding the device.

Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?

I’m using a Dell G15 laptop

  • mindlight@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I recommend you shrink the windows partition on the internal drive and install Linux in the then empty space. The extra disk you have can be used as and extra disk or you can create mount points for /home and other directories.

    Microsoft does not recognize other operating systems as “equals” (WSL is not Linux being week. It’s making Linux a puppet controlled by Windows) and therefore they design everything Windows as it was the only OS in the world. Therefore keeping Windows will often require some extra acrobatics from you.