Dual boot option disappeared after resetting one of the windows 11 installations


tskjaerpe

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I have a PC with a 500 GB SSD M2, with two partitions of 250 GB and one HD disk of 1,8 TB. I have installed windows 11 on both SSD partitions (dual boot), and use one for office work, and one mainly for Microsoft Flight Simulator (MFS).
MFS ran nicely for some months, but in the last few weeks, it refuses to start. Repeated attempts to update MFS only result in an error message saying "Something went wrong". Windows 11 is fully updated. I uninstalled MFS, but when I try to reinstall it, I get the same error message.
I then decided to make a complete reset of the corresponding Windows installation, leaving the other untouched. That seemed to work ok, but when I restart the PC the dual boot option is gone. My problem is: How do I get back the possibility to dual boot my system?
 

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Your other Windows partition should have a drive letter, let's say it is E:. In a command prompt with admin privileges the command would be:

bcdboot E:\Windows /d /addlast

Change the drive letter to whatever matches yours.
 

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Thanks for responding. I tried your suggestion but mixed up the partitions, and was left without access to any of the Windows installations. Bummer. Luckily, I remembered that I had to enable PTT the first time I installed Windows 11. Checked BIOS, and secure boot was not enabled. I reenabled it, and suddenly I had dual boot back. Great relief.
 

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windows 11Intel Core i7-8700K16 GBNVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
OS
windows 11
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model
Custom made
CPU
Intel Core i7-8700K
Motherboard
AS Rock Z370M-ITX/ac
Memory
16 GB
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
Sound Card
Motherboard
Monitor(s) Displays
HP Z27 q
Screen Resolution
4K
Hard Drives
500 GB M2 WDC WDS512G1X0C. Two 250 GB partitions
1,8 TB Hard Drive
PSU
750 Watts
Case
ITX Multicom
Cooling
?
Keyboard
HP
Mouse
Logitech m325
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200 Mbps
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