Dual booting windows and fedora, i somehow broke the windows partition and now it gets stuck at the loading screen with the text: “Getting a few things ready” or something like that.
but my Linux partition works perfectly fine, I can even access the windows partition files from linux. But I can’t get in windows at all, is there a way (from linux or a usb mount) install a clean windows without missing up anything else such as linux?
It would be a bit risky, but you might be able to do something like that by attaching your whole disk to a virtual machine instance and reinstalling Windows. That would have a high probability of corrupting your Linux OS as well though if you don’t know what you are doing. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Actually, I don’t think that would work (anymore) due to the whole TPM requirement of Windows. It would see a different TPM device when you reboot your system (if you could get it to boot at all).
You should probably just reinstall Windows in a VM and then copy the files you want to keep from the old/broken installation.
Oh well, another solution I considered was wiping everything and then installing windows and after that installing fedora and setting up dual booting all over again.
On another note, how does one reinstall windows in a VM? Do you mean leaving the windows partition alone and using a windows VM on Linux? If so then thats 500 something GB wasted, would there be a way to expand the Linux partition? Could you please elaborate? I’m a bit lost…
There are many guides available. There is one here, but I’m not sure if it is the “best” one. It might depend a bit on exactly how you intend to use Windows.
A backup is the first thing you should do regardless of what configuration you decide on.