XPost: uk.comp.os.linux   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   On 16/04/2024 00.36, Java Jive wrote:   
   > On 15/04/2024 15:34, J.O. Aho wrote:   
   >>   
   >> If you haven't cloned the partitions from the other computer (this   
   >> tend to work poorly with the closed source OS), then the UUID will be   
   >> different.   
   >   
   > After some further thought, I thought this the most helpful thing you'd   
   > said.  On the problem PC, the Win 10 Pro partition is actually the Win 7   
   > Ultimate partition in-place upgraded to Win 10 Pro, so of course they   
   > have the same partition GUIDs, whereas on the PC where everything is   
   > working as it should, the GUIDs of the two Windows partitions are   
   > different.   
      
   That explain it, nice to be able to help.   
      
   > So, in order to get GRUB to work properly, I decided that I needed to   
   > change the partition GUID on one of the partitions, choosing the   
   > Win10Pro partition as the newest, the interloper, as it were.  In my   
   > researches of the problem online, I'd seen instructions for doing this   
   > in Linux using DD, but felt a bit nervous about doing it that way   
      
   Yeah, I would too, for partition UUID tools like parted and fdisk could   
   work, for the ntfs I would have looked at the ntfslabel from the ntfs-3g   
   tools, but for sure a backup would have been wise to take before using   
   it, sure not supporting encrypted ntfs.   
      
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     //Aho   
      
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