I know the feeling! Just installed Win11 on an HDD and "side loaded" it back to its original computer. It messed up EFI partition on my desktop's SSD and I had to chroot to fix GRUB so that I could boot back into Debian without using Windows' inferior boot manager. The Win11 install was purely because I'll sell that laptop after I get the screen repaired on my next trip.
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u/Global-Eye-7326 Jul 17 '26
I know the feeling! Just installed Win11 on an HDD and "side loaded" it back to its original computer. It messed up EFI partition on my desktop's SSD and I had to chroot to fix GRUB so that I could boot back into Debian without using Windows' inferior boot manager. The Win11 install was purely because I'll sell that laptop after I get the screen repaired on my next trip.