Hello,

I’m uncertain if this is the right community for this but…

I recently bought an SSD to run Linux on it and have my old SSD still with Windows (see my previous post for more info). My laptop only has one slot for SSD so I bought a USB-C hub which included an SSD slot. I switched the old SSD to the USB-C Hub but now windows won’t boot. In the boot loader it does seem to recognise a Windows boot but when I do so it says there was a problem finding the device.

Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?

I’m using a Dell G15 laptop

  • 🧟‍♂️ Cadaver@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The problem seems to come from Windows. However, what you can do is open a terminal then type :

    sudo os-prober

    sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

    Try to reboot and see what happens. If it doesn’t fix anything, then it might be that your Windows SSD should be mounted directly on the motherboard or, at the very least, on a USB-C port.

    Sometimes, what happens is that the hub needs a driver which isn’t loaded by the DOS kernel by default. And since it isn’t loaded, Windows can’t recognise the hub so the hard drive containing itself can’t be found.