Sounds like you've got the old NTFS dirty bit over there.

Look, the number of times Windows crashes and I reboot and I reboot into Linux.

I'm like, what the hell's going on?

My stuff isn't working.

And then I look at all my mounts and all my NTFs mounts are dirty and thus unwriteable.

And that causes unpredictable things for things like my Steam library is three. That's how many times it's happened in the last week. The last thing you want is an unclean windows install. I mean, the unclean windows install, we're referencing last week's episode of dual boot diaries, I guess. Which I, which I listened to very excitedly. At some point, you mentioned me and said, I must be yelling at my radio,

but in fact, I was not. I was excitedly listening to what you were talking about because there were like, oh, I know how to fix that. I can, I should hit him up. But that, but that NTFS dirty bit thing. A sucks. Yeah. B can be fixed with a single command. Oh, can you fix it without having to boot back into Windows?

All it is is a flag being set on the NTFS volume that says this was not mounted, this was not unmounted or shut down properly. Like, don't remount it because it might be fucked up. You literally can run one command to just clear that flag and then it's fine. Oh, my God. That would have fixed all your problems. just needed to boot into something that you could run.

Well, okay, so that, the dirty bit wasn't what caused me to reinstall Windows. The thing that caused me to reinstall windows was that I messed up the boot partition and I didn't, rather than just fixing it the easy way by booting into the Windows installer and doing that, which I did the second time it broke.

Yeah, so that was another. I guess I didn't know you can use the installer for this, but you can also just make a Windows recovery USB stick that will do stuff like that for you. So that was another, again, I wasn't yelling at the radio. I was like excitedly going, oh, I can, I need to tell him about a thing. I forget how you do it. you can Google this, but there's a way to create a Windows recovery USB from within Windows,

and then you just boot off

of that in the future when you have boot problems in Windows, and it will fix those.

Honestly, the automatic startup repair thing has never once worked for me in the last, since

they implemented it like 15 years ago, 20 years ago, but you can do it manually. Like you can just wipe that partition entirely and then create a new MBR or new UEFI boot thing. And then it's like it's doable. Yeah. This is from our people on our Linux channel. Like the purpose of that thing is to fix broken Windows bootloader. Yeah. So I would recommend go making one of those.

I like it.

Yeah.

There was something else, but I've forgotten what it was.

I had to get up this morning just before we started this podcast because I have had an

outstanding project that I haven't done yet.

That is.

And I had to walk into the room with the thermostat and manually reach out to it with my hand

and turn the knob.

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