Windows 10 is not detected when trying to replace Manjaro

I’m trying to replace my Manjaro install with EOS, but Windows 10 (for dual boot) isn’t detected during installation. There are two SSDs, one with Windows and one with Linux.

The EFI partition is on the Windows disk. If I select “Replace a partition” during setup, the EFI partition is detected. It shows up in the drop down menu on the bottom of the installer window. However there is no indication Windows is detected to enable dual boot.

From fdisk:

Disk /dev/sda: 232,89 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 840
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 36047A48-7561-4582-B282-AE71E643EBCE

Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048    923647    921600   450M Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda2     923648   1128447    204800   100M EFI System
/dev/sda3    1128448   1161215     32768    16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4    1161216 487321440 486160225 231,8G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  487321600 488394751   1073152   524M Windows recovery environment


Disk /dev/sdb: 232,89 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Disk model: Samsung SSD 860
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 4C2408EF-ED80-40FB-856B-88BD696F89BA

Device        Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdb1      2048      4095      2048     1M BIOS boot
/dev/sdb2      4096   1054719   1050624   513M Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb3   1054720  88944639  87889920  41,9G Linux filesystem
/dev/sdb4  88944640 488396799 399452160 190,5G Linux filesystem

I found this thread, and I could probably do that to make it work after the installation if there are no other options.

Any help is appreciated.

Edit: Or isn’t there any confirmation in the installer that Windows (or other types of OS) is detected for dual boot?

The installer doesn’t explicitly tell you that Windows is detected. There is module that runs towards the end of the install process that sets up dual-boot.

Thank you, it worked. I guess my memory of previous installs was incorrect.

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Windows 10 is not detected

Sounds like everything is as it should be. :frog: