Hello,
I recently installed Solus on a separate drive from my windows partition in order to protect my windows installation data. Thankfully everything is backed up on an external drive. I did so not realizing that the Linux Bootloader would take over both drives, and foolishly believed that I would be able to go into my BIOS and re-register my windows bootloader in the boot order. Unfortunately my windows bootloader seems to be gone. I have used gparted to go into the windows partition and set the boot partition back to boot, esp and the linux one to mstfdata, but it still goes into linux. How can I set up a dual boot or at least get the system to boot back into windows?

    EldrinSMP the easy answer would be the windows repair disk if you have it. just unplug the solus disk.

    what you did right was separate drives but what you did wrong was not unplugging one during install.

    it's not a full moon so I can't process what an anomaly this is: 99 times out of 100 windows will interfere with a linux install and it's sandbagged my solus before. I can't remember a thread where solus wreaked havoc on another OS but I don't think it's common.

    Shy of the repair disk, I hope you get a better answer. Skim the forum search bar. I may do that now. I know there is a handful of factors how this could happen though.

      Just sayin'...

      Windows updates seem to jack the Linux bootloader as well.

      Damned either way.

      The best solution I've come across is to load Windows as VM (there is a comprehensive thread about this).

      A simple suggestion which might help once everything is cleared up.

      I've been using rEFInd as my default boot loader for a while over grub. You can also install it in win to manage your windo$e boot loader. In my experience it greatly reduced windoze messing with linux. Basically it adds an extra layer of protection between the boot loaders.

      You can install it in pretty much any OS (Win, Mac, Linux). IMHO it is well worth the time/effort. Just point your BIOS to the refind entry and let it take care of things from there.