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3 minutes ago, Abel225 said:

The problem is my bios can't find my SSD in boot options. If I remove the openSUSE drive than it timesout and will find one that has an os thus I can start windows...

boot option -> hard drive priorities.

 

boot priorities work as following:

first you sort by device:

- removable

- optical

- hard drive

- network

 

and then for those ones you can individually set their priorties.

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Hi

 

I just installed openSUSE on a separate hard drive in my rig. Now when I try to boot into windows witch was installed before linux, my motherboard only sees openSUSE booter. The only way for me to boot from my drive is to disable/remove the drive that linux was installed to. But I want to format that drive with windows. But I can't boot with it being in my machine. Is there a way to bypass this? please don't tell me I have to bios update/flash... I'm a bit scared of that. My mobo actually has an os x bootloader aswell. And I can't get that out without flashing the bios.

 

Thanks for the help!

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The problem is my bios can't find my SSD in boot options. If I remove the openSUSE drive than it timesout and will find one that has an os thus I can start windows...

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SATA is hot-swappable. That means you can just unplug the Linux drive, boot in windows, and then plug in the linux drive while PC is booted in windows. Maybe then it will be seen in windows and can be reformatted from there.

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3 minutes ago, Abel225 said:

The problem is my bios can't find my SSD in boot options. If I remove the openSUSE drive than it timesout and will find one that has an os thus I can start windows...

boot option -> hard drive priorities.

 

boot priorities work as following:

first you sort by device:

- removable

- optical

- hard drive

- network

 

and then for those ones you can individually set their priorties.

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I thought onboard sata is not hot-swappable. But if it is than that would solve most of my problem.

1 minute ago, G27Racer_188 said:

SATA is hot-swappable. That means you can just unplug the Linux drive, boot in windows, and then plug in the linux drive while PC is booted in windows. Maybe then it will be seen in windows and can be reformatted from there.

 

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1 minute ago, G27Racer_188 said:

SATA is hot-swappable. That means you can just unplug the Linux drive, boot in windows, and then plug in the linux drive while PC is booted in windows. Maybe then it will be seen in windows and can be reformatted from there.

except both the motherboard and hard drive need to support it.

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Just now, manikyath said:

boot option -> hard drive priorities.

 

boot priorities work as following:

first you sort by device:

- removable

- optical

- hard drive

- network

 

and then for those ones you can individually set their priorties.

I'll check this out! thanks

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SATA is hot-swappable i have a friend who does this all the time.

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