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Update - I bought a new samsung evo ssd and installed. Allowed win11 to prep and install a win11 rufus patched iso since this is a non-complinat legacy boot machine. Installed win11 on the new disk and kept MX on the other disk. Dual boot worked, installed all of my apps on win1 and everything ...

If you lose the Windows Boot Partition (drive broken)

In /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft there are two folders, one is Boot. In it the file
bootmgfw.efi

Thank you for responding.
Machine is ~16 year old HP Z400 - no UEFI it is legacy boot only
I have spent many hours trying to repair this problem and ...

Note, it may sometimes good to show the commands and the way you tried to fix windows.
B/c that may help someone here in the forum may spot the issue.
Here are some of the many attempts I have tried - all with the guidance of chatgpt. That may not have been a good guide but I didnt know any better ...

mx64@mx64:~
$ sudo grub install --force /dev/sda3
[sudo] password for mx64:
sudo: grub: command not found
mx64@mx64:~

First I would try to repair the windows bootloader with help of windows own tools
First I would try to repair the windows bootloader with help of windows own tools.
Does the ...

Two questions:
When you have a GRUB working,
can you reboot with a LiveUSB/LiveDVD (not ventoy)
and at LiveBoot menu select Switch to GRUB,
on the GRUB menu select Boot Rescue, and further search for Windows boot loader.
Would it find a windows bootloader and when selected boot to Windows?

If yes ...

Can you give us the output of lsblk -f in code tags?

You can post code on the forum like this:

[ code]code output here[/code ]

mx64@mx64:~
$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1
│ ntfs System Reserved
│ 14E444F7E444DD1C
├─sda2
│ ntfs F686E14F86E110C3 ...

Ive been dual booting MX and Win11 on my old HP Z400 (legacy BIOS - no UEFI) for a couple years without issue. I know this may be a faux pas here but I need help.
Win11 did an update and then after reboot I got a "disk error" and could no longer boot to hard drive/grub.
I booted to MX live USB and ...

CharlesV - Sorry for the delay and thanks for the response.
TBH I don't remember now. I can see the phone now but instead of it showing as "iPhone" with "DCIM" folder it shows as "Documents on iPhone" and shows a list of App folders.
Here is the results of lsusb.

mx64@mx64:~
$ lsusb
Bus 006 ...

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-18-amd64 [6.1.76-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-18-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
init=/lib/systemd/systemd
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
dm ...

I hope you don't mind one more question @Charlie Brown .... Is there any benefit to booting with Advanced Options all of the time?
(Let me know if I should create a new post for this question)