Is there an issue with Windows 10 install?

[david moheban]

Hi,

The refind website states that there may be an issue with Windows 10 and that we should wait until its investigated. Is this true??

Thanks

[Roderick W. Smith]

The only warnings about Windows 10 in the rEFInd documentation relate to the bcdedit command and installation of rEFInd. I'm not much of a Windows user, but I suspect this is more an issue of the default shell used in different Windows versions, which requires a tweak to the syntax of the command. In practice, most people seem to use macOS or Linux to install rEFInd, and once rEFInd is installed, it should be able to boot Windows 10 just fine.

[faginbagin]

I have refind installed on a laptop that has win10 and two flavors of linux installed and it's working for me. The laptop came with win8, and I had upgraded to win8.1 and installed the linux flavors. After upgrading to win10, I did a clean install of win10, clobbering the linux partitions and letting win10 use the whole disk. I then shrank the win10 partition, installed refind and then restored the linux flavors in separate partitions. I'm using that laptop running win10 as I type.

HTH,
Helen

[bobby glouton]

Hello I use w10 and MacOs with refind on a Macbook Pro 2012 since April 2016 and I never had any issue with the boot.

[Kristian Werner]

Added rEFInd to laptop with Windows 10 without problem. Used 0.10.2 previously, now using 0.10.5.
I did use a live linux with gparted to resize partitions, but have not touched the boot partition, so that's "pure windows." Then added various linuxes, all of which are picked up without problem.

The commands in Rod's install instructions is all I used the first time round and they work fine.

Have used Visual BCD and EasyUEFI for recent troubleshooting, but the BCDEDIT command was all I needed for the initial install.

You may need to use the BIOS setup utility to reorder the boot managers.