Windows 10 will not boot after clean Manjaro Install

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Hi all

I had a w10 working install on my /dev/sda drive. On the drive I had 1T of free space. On the free space I installed Manjaro with Manual partitioning for root (/), home (/home) and swap.
Let me show you:

sudo fdisk -l                                                              1 ✘  17m 26s  
[sudo] password for victor: 
Disk /dev/sda: 1,82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors
Disk model: ST32000542AS    
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: 56F8808E-7396-47AC-968D-D2EF414EEC0D

Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048     206847     204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda2      206848     239615      32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3      239616 1229039667 1228800052 585,9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4  1229041664 1857957887  628916224 299,9G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  3905959936 3907026943    1067008   521M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6  1857957888 1975144447  117186560  55,9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7  1981003776 3905959935 1924956160 917,9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8  1975144448 1981003775    5859328   2,8G Linux swap

Partition table entries are not in disk order.


Disk /dev/sdb: 7,28 TiB, 8001563222016 bytes, 15628053168 sectors
Disk model: ST8000AS0002-1NA
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4A086EBC-66F0-4654-A012-4DC349A33925

Device     Start         End     Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdb1   2048 15628052479 15628050432  7,3T Linux filesystem

As you can see there are two physical drives. /dev/sdb1 is not any part of the problem.

I also run this command:

sudo lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME                            ✔  4s  
PATH      PTTYPE PARTTYPE                             FSTYPE PARTTYPENAME
/dev/sda  gpt                                                
/dev/sda1 gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat   EFI System
/dev/sda2 gpt    e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae        Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda3 gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs   Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda4 gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs   Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5 gpt    de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs   Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6 gpt    0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4   Linux filesystem
/dev/sda7 gpt    0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4   Linux filesystem
/dev/sda8 gpt    0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f swap   Linux swap
/dev/sdb  gpt                                                
/dev/sdb1 gpt    0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4   Linux filesystem
/dev/sdd                                                     
/dev/sr0

And:

sudo parted -l                                                                           ✔ 
[sudo] password for victor: 
Model: ATA ST32000542AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  106MB   105MB   fat32           EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      106MB   123MB   16,8MB                  Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      123MB   629GB   629GB   ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      629GB   951GB   322GB   ntfs            Basic data partition          msftdata
 6      951GB   1011GB  60,0GB  ext4
 8      1011GB  1014GB  3000MB  linux-swap(v1)                                swap
 7      1014GB  2000GB  986GB   ext4
 5      2000GB  2000GB  546MB   ntfs                                          hidden, diag


Model: ATA ST8000AS0002-1NA (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8002GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
 1      1049kB  8002GB  8002GB  ext4         Archive

In the process of installing Manjaro I did not create a new EFI system partition. I used the one existing for win10 and made sure the flags boot and esp where selected.

Then when I reboot the system I get the GRUB menu but on selecting win10 the process goes into problems. The windows repair process is unable to solve.

I have been reading a few of these problems with the same consequences but not exactly the same origin. I am hoping I can fix this easily.
Please let me know what info you need. Many thanks.

Vic

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You are right, my oversight.

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Installing Manjaro should not affect Windows, specially when no Windows partition was modified. Did you formatted the EFI partition when installing Manjaro? Or did you modified the Windows partitions in any way to make room for Manjaro? Did you modified anything in BIOS/UEFI?

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Hi, I marked the option keep in the EFI partition when installing Manjaro. As the manual suggested I used the same EFI partition and selected the mount point and flags.

‘’’
1: The EFI partition created and
used by Windows can also be
used by Manjaro. Select the EFI
partition that was created by
Windows and Edit it. It should
be the only one using the fat32
file system. For a refresher on
file systems, see chapter Some
useful definitions.
2: Choose to Keep the content
of the partition. This will make
sure that the files used by Win-
dows are not deleted. If you
choose to format it, you will not
be able to boot into Windows
anymore, so keeping its con-
tent is very important. Then,
select /boot/efi as the mount
point and make sure the boot
and esp flags are checked. The
mount point indicates from
which directory the partition
will be accessible once Manjaro is installed.
‘’’

So… what has gone wrong? How to fix?

Thanks

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It’s difficult to say. Something has been modified in the system that Windows doesn’t like.
If you didn’t modified the partitions in any way or you didn’t format the EFI partition (but the problem in this case would be different), then the only thing I can think off is that you maybe modified something in the BIOS/UEFI. Probably disable Secure Boot (but that is not the problem), but also maybe RAID or vmd? That could cause something like you are experiencing.

Other than that I can’t say. In any case, what you have now is a Windows problem, not a Linux problem. Not to be rude, but probably you’ll understand that a Linux forum is not the best place to solve a Windows problem. You should try in a Windows forum, where people with more knowledge on the OS will be able to help you better.

But what should be good to know in any case is what caused the problem in the first place. As I said, it’s not Manjaro/Linux. Windows doesn’t care what is in other partitions, so it should be some system modification you made (maybe without noticing)

Good luck!

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I guess I must’ve modified something unintentionally during the installation of Manjaro. I am preparing mentally to reinstall win10 and manjaro and see if the problem will replicate in my system.
But as you suggested I will have a look first in a windows forum. Thanks