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Dunno what sort of setup you have, but what I would do, considering my setup and by being a tad on the neurotic side, is to unscrew and detatch any drives but the one to be flashed. This, I think, is the only way to be absolutely sure nothing goes in the wrong place.
I would need to dismantle almost everything and would lose the heatsink past on my nvme too, I will just try disabling it since I dont really see how that would be different from removing, not like the fedora installer can mess with my bios settings no?
This should be sufficient. Go for it.
Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/
Turns out my boot partition was on my other drive somehow (the drive I installed Linux) , am I completely fucked now?
Do you mean your Windows boot partition?
Windows does not support installing the boot partition on a different drive out of the box. Unless you modified your Windows installation, the drive where Windows is installed is also where the Windows boot manager lives.
The biggest risk with installing with the drive connected is accidentally installing the Linux boot partition over the Windows boot partition, hence the usual recommendation to disconnect the drive just to be safe.
You're gonna have to provide some more details on your setup and what is working/not working though.
It probably got moved when I reinstalled windows after trying nobora years ago. I managed to fix everything but tbh it was way more stressful than it should have been
Did you manage to install Linux to your second drive?
Yeah, mostly fixed stuff but now Im not getting audio. It defaults to my GPU's hdmi audio instead of my onboard sound
Do the audio settings show your onboard audio device?
I ran some terminal cmd (sry dont remember what it was) that gave me a weird UI inside the terminal that actually showed my onboard sound so I think my pc recognizes it somehow somewhere
You don't have to use the terminal, if you installed regular Fedora with GNOME, you can just search for "Sound" and it should come up with this:
If you installed Fedora KDE you can search for "Sound" as well and it should look like this:
I managed to make it work. Apparently the back audio doesnt work if someone is plugged to my front port, kinda annoying but I will survive. Thanks for the help though
Seems my motherboard cannot disable nvme, I might try disconnecting it