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First, I want to note that my laptop is now fixed and I am not reinstalling Windows on it again. This is mostly to confirm to moderators that this is a story, not a support question.
Backstory:
So, I was first using Arco Linux (dual boot with Windows), and I was on YouTube hearing about all the Fedora hype. So anturally I wanted try it, but not in a VM, because performance would suck (I didn't know about Qemu/KVM/virt-manager back then) so I decided to go for it on physical hardware, replacing Arco with Fedora. I was going into it with no prior experience with using the Anaconda Installer, so I deleted my Windows Boot Manager by mistake. At first I thought Windows wasn't showing on fedora's grub because maybe they didn't install os prober or something? So back to Arco I go, where once again windows doesn't show up in grub. So, I went into UEFI settings, no Windows Boot Manager. Grub CLI, trying to boot manually, although at this point I was totally expecting it, no Windows boot manager.
TLDR: Tried to install Fedora on dual boot machine, deleted Windows bootloader, back to ArcoLinux.
The Solution?:
So I was staying without Windows (only keeping it there in case my parents want to use the laptop, which they haven't for the last 3-4 months) for the last month. Two days ago, I finally got my confirmation that I'm done with my first year of college, so I decided to try and fix Windows. Flashed a USB with Ventoy, put windows (and a bunch of other iso laying around) on it, and booted it. Windows menu shows the option to 'Repair your computer', so I tried uisng that, because according to a tutorial that will reset the boot order (easy fix), but will restore Windows Boot Manager. Of course, UEFI, didn't open, I waited for 3 minutes, when it usually opens that password prompt immediately, so I rebooted. Windows forced itself on me without the Ventoy USB, so the only way to boot into Arco was through the boot options in the Ventoy USB. I tried to access the UEFI settings through windows advanced startup, standard key shortcut on boot, a desktop shortcut on Windows, the Grub shortcut when booting into grub and nothing. All that happened was a bunch of waiting and nothing but the logo showing up. When I booted into arco, I deleted the windows data partition. After that I also tried using the efibootmgr command to change the boot order, but it didn't work. This morning, it seems that the laptop fixed itself. I started looking through forums and on an Acer forum (I use an Acer laptop), it said to try using the normal way and I was like 'there's no point, ive done it a million times. I'll do it again, but if it doesn't work (which it probably won't) I'll just contact support using the link shown here. So I reboot and suddenly voila! I'm into the settings and I put Arco at the top of the list at the boot order menu. Even though I deleted the main windows partition, the other Windows partitions are still there, so I'm going to take a look at what they are and then delete them. As I was sharing the laptop with my parents (my mom has her own laptop, my dad hardly uses a laptop, but when he does, he uses my mom's), mainly sharing it with my dad, he basically told me he doesn't care, so it's practically confirmed that I'm the sole user of the laptop, and as such I'm kind of the owner of it, so that's a nica added benefit. Because of the way my partitions are structured, I'm left with a 270GB hole in my disk, which I'm either going to fix with another linux distro, or by reinstalling Arco and giving it the entire disk. I've also been considering using Archinstall to switch to mainline Arch.
TLDR: Windows ruined everything, so it's no longer on my machine and will never be. I'm considering dualbooting another distro, or reinstalling Arco, because of awkward partition layout.
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