Sorry if the post is long, trying to give each relevant detail.
Update 1: I also updated the UEFI just to be sure and the issue persists as expected
My system has two drives, the first for Linux and the second for Windows.
Initially I had OpenSUSE MicroOS on the first and I could boot into Windows through the UEFI, but then I installed Fedora on it and lost the ability to get into Windows since. I thought that it had a boot partition on its own drive, but I guess I was wrong since now that I checked the partitions, there is no FAT32 partition on there.
(in text form)
nvme0n1 931,5G disk
├─nvme0n1p1 16M part
├─nvme0n1p2 930,8G part BitLocker
│ └─bitlk-66306 930,8G crypt ntfs
└─nvme0n1p3 692M part ntfs
Unlike on my Linux drive
(in text form)
nvme1n1 931,5G disk
├─nvme1n1p1 600M part vfat /boot/efi
├─nvme1n1p2 1G part ext4 /boot
└─nvme1n1p3 929,9G part crypto_LUKS
└─luks-353e522f-c0f3-4167-99fc-90d576a734e8 929,9G crypt btrfs /var/home
So I probably destroyed the content of the boot files in its installation process.
I’m able to access my BitLocker encrypted drive through Fedora, so if I have to reinstall I can still make a backup (it wasn’t very important to me either way).
I also fired up a Windows recovery drive to see if it detected the system and it does, I haven’t yet looked at what the recovery drive can do, so if that’s the key to solving this let me know.
The actual question
So at this point I wonder: is there a way to restore the Windows boot option? Would I have to do it in some GRUB config or do I have to/can I create a boot partition on the Windows drive too and somehow write the bootloader there?
In the recovery environment open a command prompt and run bootrec.exe /fixboot should do it. You might also need to run bootrec.exe /fixmbr
Take a look here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/performance/windows-boot-issues-troubleshooting
that’s for mbr/legacy not uefi
I tried that and it gives me an
Access denied.
errorOn the other hand, following the guide in the website, I can confirm that the OS seems to be still intact, running:
I get one Windows installation identified on
C:\Windows