100% this.
Physically remove the windows drive, then install on your other drive, once it’s all working plug the windows drive back in
Madrigal@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Windows acts like it is the only OS installed on the machine. Your best bet is to physically disconnect all other drives while installing windows.
darkstar@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tetsuo@jlai.lu 21 hours ago
Physically removing it is overkill. Just disconnect the SATA cable.
darkstar@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Yes if you have a cable to disconnect you can do that as well
Most modern machines are m.2 with no cable
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Searches for a SATA cable, cries in multiple m.2
I was concerned about win 10 killing my linux boot loader on my old system, so I installed linux on another drive and would pick from boot menu which drive to load (for some reason my efi wouldn’t let me boot from the sata ssd automatically but windows had a drive in both m.2 slots, I have a new system and don’t worry bout windows messing me up as there is no windows on this machine
TWeaK@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Absolutely. The last thing you want is Windows’ multi-OS boot manager popping up all the time. BIOS handles that more than well enough.