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Hello, After you had gotten into the PC's firmware and changed/saved everything to your liking, you would want to power down again and reconnect the CMOS/RTC backup battery and the computer's drives. Windows will not switch between BIOS/MBR mode and UEFI/GPT mode without a reinstall. Technically, it can be done with tricky disk re-partitioning using third-party utilities, but the process is complex and I generally find it safer to just perform the reinstall. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky

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I'm an old fart too.....but I'm a sweet smellin' one.

I keep a copy of Foxclone and MX plus any other distro I fancy playing with. Makes playing just so easy. Copy and image to Ventoy and play away, simples.

Yeah I used to do that. Then one day Windows blue screened and hosed everything so I went the separate disk route. No problems after that, well at least not with Arch.

I might be an old fart but I ain't pushin up the daisies yet bud. I miss ERIC too.

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Hey Raymac....I tried that as well a while back. Seemed to work OK. I'm not using thumb-drives much anymore other than to transfer data or loaded with music and used in my car or boat. Speaking of Erik.....miss the dude. RIP bro.

As per Erik's suggestion I've been experimenting with Ventoy. I have a 32GB thumbdrive so I installed Ventoy and then 4-5 ISOs of interest - Debian, Knoppix, GParted, Arch Linux, Linux Mint. They all seem to boot OK.

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Well everything in tech is fluid and always changing

I used the archfi and archdi scripts to install Arch and they worked pretty well. I understood the process because I had done an actual Arch install - both in a virtual machine and also on the rails. All the script does is make sure you don't forget anything as you go through the install. I installed EndeavourOS - which has a Calamares installer. It is basically Arch with a few pretty interface enhancements. Installing the Arch way is a wonderful method to learn about the basics of Linux and what does what. However, once you've done it, the install works for a long time with minimal user input, so you forget about all the steps you went through.

Nice, I used the new arch-install script a while back and it works great. I wouldn't suggest it to someone who hasn't installed the normal way before but it did work well.

Just did another large upgrade to the long time Arch install on this ugly old Netbook, Had no problems because I was careful to update the archlinux-keyring before the upgrade.

As far as I can see VB 6.1 or later can support TPM but I would go with 7.1.X to make sure. Fortunately don't have to deal with this.

Same here. I'll bet Sunrat has an issue with TPM Module. If memory serves correct, virt-manager addressed it by default. Most use VirtualBox....maybe VB hasn't addressed it by default?

Well that is good to hear.

After a couple of weeks, I checked my granddaughter's desktop and the reinstall is just as stable as can be. I still don't know why they had the original corrupted file system but everything seems OK now.

I went from one machine-one O/S to dual booting to distro hopping to chainloading/distro farming to virtual machines to one machine-one O/S. I have found that it is easier to get a junk machine for next to nothing and install my favorite Linux, than to try anything fancy. I'm sure each of you has found your best way of working. When it comes to Linux it's LM for the family, Arch for me. The biggest PITA by far for me was trying to maintain Windows 10 in a VM - license issues, security, endless updates. YMMV of course.

Odd I was able to do it last year to test something. I was using virt-manager to install it.

I tried and failed several times to install Win11 on KVM/QEMU. I don't really want Win11, just to stickybeak. Linux works pretty much every time.

That would be very difficult for most users. They can barely use a computer with a preinstalled OS (windows). I am in the enterprise environment and it amazes me daily how dumb most people are. I would of never thought that I would be the smartest person in a room full of high level engineers. Go figure...

Oh there is another surefire way to do that, just don't install Windows.

That's GENIUS barbarian! No way Windows can update it's bootloader and overwrite GRUB if it doesn't even know the other disk(s) exists! While what you say is 100% true, SB, it is also possible that a Windows update can update it's bootloader in the EFI partition and overwrite whatever GRUB has done in the EFI partition, thereby rendering Windows as the only bootable drive. Linux is still there, but can no longer be booted unless you go through the gyrations to perform a GRUB repair and update, or install rEFInd. Barbarian's solution is quite simple and elegant, IMO. There is no way for a Windows update to bork his GRUB if Windows doesn't even know the Linux partition exists; and vice verse. And many folks don't realize that UEFI can also be a bootloader! The only thing I'd disagree with is Barbarian's assessment that this was easier than setting up a VM. Having read so many of his troubleshooting adventures, I KNOW he's a sharp guy (and there are NO fools here at BATL), and VMs aren't difficult or complicated. In fact, I'd argue they are simpler and easier than bare metal installations. If he ever dips his toes in the VM waters he's going to look back on that statement someday and chuckle at himself over those thoughts. Until then, whatever works for him....but VM is definitely the way to go. I've said this for about 15+ years now, but I think ALL COMPUTERS should be sold as VMs, allowing the user to install whatever OS they see fit. Turn the machine on, there's the VM interface, and either install a new VM from ISO, or simply select the OS already installed. JMO...