I bought an Asus Zenbook Pro-17 (AMD Ryzen 6900, Win11, internal 1TB NVME) and an external USB-NVME case and an extra NVME SSD. Installed Linux on the extra SSD and both drives booted. I swapped the SSDs (Linux internal and Win11 to the external case) because I intend to use Linux most of the time, and run Win11 only when I absolutely must. Linux is happy to boot from either position, but Win11 complains 'inaccessible boot drive' when its drive is external.
I think the problem Win11 has is that its UEFI looks at disk 0 for Win11, which was correct when its drive was internal. So I'm looking for a way to change it to look at disk 1. I think i need to tell the Win boot loader to look at drive 1 (or drive D for the Win11 installation that is on osdrive C:. (BTW, am I correct in thinking that 'drive' is the physical drive and 'osdrive' is a filesystem in a partition on a physical drive? And, rhetorically, whyever did MS decide to use the same term to refer to two completely different things?)
Just DLed EasyBCD and copied it, of all things, a USB Rev drive I have. It boots (xBSD-amd64). But it doesn't find a usable graphics driver for the nVidia GA107 (GeForce RTX 3050), AMD's built-in GPU (that mayn't be connected to anything, or the HDMI-VGA adapter I plugged in. And it leaves the keyboard in an unusable state (built-in or USB; tried both).
Is there a way to get newer drivers for EasyBCD? Or is there an easy way to tweak the Win11 UEFI to look at the external drive? I'd rather avoid blindly bashing about if I can.
Thanks!
I think the problem Win11 has is that its UEFI looks at disk 0 for Win11, which was correct when its drive was internal. So I'm looking for a way to change it to look at disk 1. I think i need to tell the Win boot loader to look at drive 1 (or drive D for the Win11 installation that is on osdrive C:. (BTW, am I correct in thinking that 'drive' is the physical drive and 'osdrive' is a filesystem in a partition on a physical drive? And, rhetorically, whyever did MS decide to use the same term to refer to two completely different things?)
Just DLed EasyBCD and copied it, of all things, a USB Rev drive I have. It boots (xBSD-amd64). But it doesn't find a usable graphics driver for the nVidia GA107 (GeForce RTX 3050), AMD's built-in GPU (that mayn't be connected to anything, or the HDMI-VGA adapter I plugged in. And it leaves the keyboard in an unusable state (built-in or USB; tried both).
Is there a way to get newer drivers for EasyBCD? Or is there an easy way to tweak the Win11 UEFI to look at the external drive? I'd rather avoid blindly bashing about if I can.
Thanks!