Unable to load windows 10 after installing

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I recently followed a tutorial online to install KDE Plasma alongside Windows 10. After installing it onto my ssd I restarted my computer and was allowed to choose between Manjaro and the Windows boot manager. Whenever I select Windows boot manager it takes about 30 seconds to load, and then it says its repairing my PC, and then it says it couldn’t load windows properly and I can either restart or choose advanced options. Manjaro will load up just fine though.

Sorry for such a beginner question, I’ve been looking at similar forum posts to try and fix it myself but I wasn’t able to figure it out.

Thank you

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In case this would help, here are the results for “sudo fdisk -l”

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 3E4CDE2C-DB99-48FD-B25A-5DD723CC366B

Device             Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1      2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2    206848    239615     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/nvme0n1p3    239616 770927249 770687634 367.5G Microsoft basic data
/dev/nvme0n1p4 975728640 976771071   1042432   509M Windows recovery environment
/dev/nvme0n1p5 770927250 970608639 199681390  95.2G Linux filesystem

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

Disk /dev/loop0: 32.44 MiB, 34017280 bytes, 66440 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 167.32 MiB, 175443968 bytes, 342664 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop2: 164.76 MiB, 172761088 bytes, 337424 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop3: 55.5 MiB, 58191872 bytes, 113656 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop4: 65.21 MiB, 68378624 bytes, 133552 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop5: 4 KiB, 4096 bytes, 8 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

and this “sudo os-prober”

/dev/nvme0n1p1@/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi
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What tutorial?

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How have you shrunk the Windoze partition to install Manjaro:

  • from within Windoze,
  • by the installer or
  • somehow differently?

I guess the shrinking did not work properly and resulted in a corrupted partition /dev/nvme0n1p3.

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We cannot assist you fixing Windows problems and any issues related to Windows failing to start is considered off-topic.

The official guide to dual-boot is contained in the user manual and a semi official guide is found on the forum.

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Is there an off-topic portion of the forum I could move this to?

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No, there isn’t, but even if there was, new users cannot move threads. Only TL3 members and above can do that.

As @linux-aarhus said, fixing problems with Microsoft Windows is beyond the scope of this forum. I am therefore closing this thread. Please consult Microsoft’s knowledge base and/or forums on how to repair your Windows installation.

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