Messed up my bootloader with windows

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Hi everyone.
I am using an XPS15 9520 with one SSD with W11, and one with Fedora.
I have some other issues with thermal (I really don’t recommend that laptop..), so I reset the BIOS without thinking too much.
Thanksfully, Fedora managed to fix its booting and came back to life.

Windows, on the other hand, is struggling and loops in the repair mode, with no succes.
Looking at the log, I see

"
Name: Check for installed LCU
Result: Completed successfully. Error code = 0x14c
Time taken = 4438 ms
"

I am not sure I am in the right Forum, but does anyone had a similar issue and a fix?

Thanks

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I’m not sure about the bootloader, but I had a XPS 13 and put a thermal pad between the CPU heatsink and chassis bottom so the whole metal bottom could be used as a heatsink. It worked well surprisingly :stuck_out_tongue:

Some Dells also have thermal profiles able to be set; my Latitude 5591 defaults to Balanced but can be changed to Performance so the fans turn on sooner/higher. It needs re-set on BIOS/CMOS reset:

sudo smbios-thermal-ctl --set-thermal-mode='performance'
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Thanks I’ll look into it!
For now I’ll focus on recovering my windows boot haha

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Dual boot is a) fragile, and b) wastes time while switching. I only used Windows to report issues with artifacts (mostly PDF’s) to authors/creators who use Windows. I had been spending more time dealing with Windows updates breaking dual boot than I could afford.

Unless your work really requires Windows, your time might be better spent looking for ways around whatever you are currently using in Windows. If you really can’t abandon Windows, you can have Fedora 42 in WSL2 to make fixing dual boot issues less urgent.

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I know this is true for some people, but not all.
I dual boot with Windows and it’s reliable/stable for me, and has been for years.