How to get windows to not do disk checking or ruin my bootloader when i add a linux partition on the same drive. I don’t like the windows panicking when there is a linux partition on it and doing a variety of things, even if its not on the same ssd it STILL does disk checking but I have not seen anything worse than that on the same partition, but I need the space.
Dunno if this belongs in the linux subreddit but I mean if there is any way i can hide linux that could also work.
If there’s a way under Gaia’s green earth to put it on a separate drive, do that. Stick windows on an external NVMe on a fast USB / Thunderbolt, or many laptops have a WLAN port you can shove a NVMe into (often faster than SATA, has a PCIe lane, so give it to linux). Then use BIOS (F12 or whatever) to swap between them, or boot to linux first and let GRUB start windows. Back when, I used REFind on macbooks, if I recall it gets in there earlier but winblows is likely onto it by now.
This problem has been so persistent that it indicates malice aforethought from M$, so if possible give it it’s own lesser device until you can find an alternative to that holdout software (sympathies if it’s Photoshop or AutoCAD). Perhaps there’s a way to run it on Wine / Proton.