Dual Boot

I have Mint 21.3 and Win 11 dual booted on a 500G NVMe drive. The Leveno PC also has a 120G SATA SDD drive installed. Somehow both drives have a Windows boot manager on them - I do not know how that happened. Both OS will boot and work fine but I have to use F12 to select which drive to use. If...

Good morning all, I have a PC which I did a clean install of 7 on one hhd, and then I installed 10 on the SSD. When I select windows 7 instead of 10 from the windows boot section, windows 7 no longer has USB functionality. I’ve tried disabling legacy USB, and reinstalling drivers. I get nothing...

I am looking to build a new machine based on a 4090/192G/13900K using Memory Express + their assembly. I have a Gold 1300 PSU/Fractal Case/4T of spinning rust as well as the other odds and ends. I've been waiting on the installation of circuit breaker surge protection. That's done now. Within...

I was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 11. I deleted my Ubuntu partition as I no longer have a need for it and when I did so I have 250 gb of unallocated space on my drive now. I have tried to extend the other partition of the drive but it says there is not enough space. I formatted the windows...

Hello everyone! I am trying to set up dual boot with Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro on two separate internal SSDs! I want one SSD for work purposes (windows 11 pro) and I want the other SSD for home use and gaming (Windows 11 home). Currently my laptop is already pre installed with a...

I built a desktop for myself for the first time in December 2022/January 2023. Parts I used were the following: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor Mobo: Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Rev. 1.1 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64 GB (2 x 32 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 GPU: MSI GAMING Z...

Hi all Basically I have an older system running working Win10, booting off an old sata RAID using 2x1tb HDDs. It's unreasonably slow to get to a usable desktop after login, and people have suggested replacing the HDD with an SSD. I have one free M2 (not NVMe) slot I can use to test-drive an...

I have Win11 on my main M.2 drive and want to install Win10 on another Sata drive. So I downloaded the Win10 media creation tool, installed it on a thumb drive and now best I can tell I just rearrange the boot menu in BIOS and install win10 on that SATA drive like normal. What I am wondering...

I have installed Windows 10 on a new Samsung 870 EVO SSD. I disconnected all other drives before I did this. I want to put my other SSD with a Linux Mint install back into the machine. I have no preference as far as Grub/Windows Boot Manager. I want to be able to dual boot the system. Should I...

I bought an ssd from someone with Windows 7 on it. When I initially connected it and booted to it, my keyboard and mouse were working. I then started installing the chipset cd so that I could get networking etc to work. Install needed pc to reboot. After rebooting, keyboard and mouse stopped...

Hi, This is a complex question so I ve choose this brech(system) cause is not only mobo or ssd the problem and I m seraching for a solution, so if the brench is wrong I ask the mods to change it pls. Now the thing, As another question done not a lot time ago, I have a wd blue 500GB ssd that is...

Actually, I want to test some Windows software, they could be malicious. Currently, I'm using MX Linux. I tried virtualization with every software out there, but it makes my system lag. My system is not that superior. So, should I go with a dual boot then?

Hello! I own a Lenovo Legion y520 with an SSD (on which win11 is currently installed) and an empty HDD (or so I thought). I've been wanting to flash Ubuntu on the empty HDD for some time now, so I decided I'd give it a go. Upon opening the disk management utility though, I found that the HDD...

I recently dual booted my windows 10 Installention with linux mint. Today i cleaned installed windows 10 but without touching the linux partition (in the windows install menu i deleted all partitions except the linux one and i installed windows 10 on the same partition). I confrmed that i didnt...

Hello There, I am a tech enthusiast and have Ubuntu 21.10 installed on my only driver of 500 Gb. My PC specs are as follows, H/W path Device Class Description ========================================================= system Vostro...

I have a legacy BIOS and I am using Windows 10 combined with Ubuntu (Linux), I followed this tutorial to dual boot: YouTube I did everything he did. Except the fact that I installed it onto separate hard drive instead of the drive where my windows OS is installed. Now whenever I boot it up, it...

I had a Kali/Win 7 Aero Blue Lite install. Some fool installed XP over top of that whole thing. Can I get any data back?

I have a recent model of hp laptop "HP du1065tu" With i5 10210u and a 512 gb nvme... Today I tried to install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for dual boot with pre-installed OEM windows 10.. I shrunk the C drive to get 100 gb unallocated for Ubuntu. After installing Ubuntu with 30 gb for root, 6 gb for swap...

I dual-booted Linux Mint and W10 (I was originally on W10) and after dual booting, I have no ethernet connection on W10. I tried reinstalling drivers, but it didn't work at all. Any idea how to solve this?

Hello everyone, It all starts with me trying to provide a small upgrade to my trusty computer (Asus A88XM-Plus, AMD A10, 256 + 128 Sata SSDs). I needed more space so I added a Samsung NVMe drive on a PCIe adapter. My intention was to move the Windows 10 installation to the NVMe while keeping...

I have a Samsung 850 SSD with 512 GB. I have 210 GB's free. I'm using Windows 7 disk management to shrink the drive but it will only allow me to shrink it to 40260 MB. I'm completely confused as what to do. I wanted to split the drive in half and have one side for Win 10 and the other for 7...

I know, it's one of those dual boot questions, but, weirdly, I can't find an answer to my specific situation. In my situation, I already have a fully, happilly working Win XP on its own HDD, which I will still need because of some old hardware and outdated driver issues. I want to install Win...

Hi - I hope someone can tell me the proper way to do this as there are multiple answers online. I have a work pc Windows 10 install with no admin rights, I am trying to install Windows 10 on my own personal SSD drive and keep them as separate as possible. It would be great to restrict access...

I have a Dual boot system I've used for years. Win7 - used exclusively for digital audio recording through a PCI card (infrasonic Quartet) and Win 10 for everything else. This worked well with Win 10 using the sound integrated in the motherboard. This last weekend my son installed some...

The heating issue cropped up about two days back. I installed Solidworks 4 days ago and ANSYS student 3 days ago. The laptop was bought in Sept 2019, specifications are: i7-9750H Nvidia 1660 Ti Max Q 512GB SSD 1TB SSD 12 GB RAM It has been on dual boot since the beginning, UBUNTU 18.04 LTS...

So my current storage situation is a bit of a problem. My current main boot drive was originally a storage drive, that at some point I installed a very slim Windows system to in a small partition (50GB) part way through the drive and between 2 storage partitions I resized to fit it between. Poor...

Hi, I'ven using Windows 10 and Linux in a dual boot for 2 months, but yesterday when I turned on my pc, it just directly booted to windows 10, and the "menu" that always appeared that let me chose which OS I wanted to use isn't there anymore. also, i don't have access to the bios, when I try to...

Hi folks, I think I'm in over my head here and would love to understand what is happening. I'll give the short version first, but the backstory might be required here. Please forgive me if I'm posting in the wrong place. Short version: I have disconnected all of the disks/drives/devices from...

Hello Guys, now i have windows 7 installed on my PC and I was thinking about dual booting windows 7 and windows 10 but my question here that I got about 200GBs+ games installed (on steam) so I wanted to ask is it possible that they work on windows 10 ? while I installed them on windows 7...

Hello, I am new to the Forum and I hope I'm doing this right. I have an Asus K55A Laptop with an i7-3630qm 4 core 2.4 GHz CPU, 8 GB ram, a 240 GB SSD in the hard drive slot and a 1 TB HDD in a caddy in the optical drive. I would like to dual boot Windows 10 and some form of Linux mostly to...

Good day! I have a desktop which boots Windows 10 x64 from a SSD. I plan to sell this PC so my idea is to unplug the SSD and connect a spare HDD to install WIndows 10 on it so it's ready when a buyer knocks on my door and keep the SSD for myself with my personal info. But I'd like to know, if...

Hi, I plan to buy an SSD this coming Christmas. The question that I have is is it possible to move my current Windows 10 to the New SSD without harming the Ubuntu? I have a current dual boot configuration and I don't want to touch the Ubuntu as much as possible. Thanks. Specs: ASUS TUF FX505DY...

I’m trying to install Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Win10, but after booting from the USB the option to install Ubuntu alongside the existing OS is gone. I have shrunk existing partitions to create 90 GB worth of an unallocated space, which always did the trick. It doesn’t now: the option is gone...

So after successfully installing Windows 7 on my windows 10 pc, whenever I boot the computer i get the grub rescue error thingy. I can actually boot into Windows 7 or 10 by pressing f11 and choosing windows boot loader. Both os's work properly, its just like windows is unlinked or something...

Hi. I made a dual boot Windows 10s. I used my Kingston 240GB SSD and split it into 2 partitions. My main one with 160GB and the other one with 80GB for some testing. It's all good but i can explore, edit and use others partition files. I'd like to know how to hide the partitions from one...

I have an SSD and an HDD I have windows 7 on my HDD and windows 10 on my SDD, but I want windows 10 again, because my windows 10 got removed and I dont want to transfer my files to my HDD to SDD, I want to use my SSD because I got hardware banned for an accidental glitch, and I need to change...

I have recently dual booted my Macbook to run in windows, since this change i have had awful luck getting the Mac Mouse and keyboard to stay synced with the device, it will connect via Bluetooth but as soon as i stop using it for about 10 secs it will stop responding even though it still shows...

I have an ASUS laptop G550JK with Intel Core i7-4710HQ, 8GB of RAM and GTX850M 4 GB. Also it is dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 10. An year ago weird issue started coming up where there was 50% chance that when the laptop boots(cold boot) the main screen wont get powered/recognized by...

Hello everyone, I am trying to set up dual boot win10-kubuntu on my system, but run into some problems. in a nutshell, installing kubuntu breaks my windows boot and prevents me from accessing it. I have a system running windows 10, and want to install kubuntu as dual boot alongside it...

I currently have a PC with Windows 7 64 bit installed on an HDD(SATA). I want to add an SSD(SATA) to it and install Windows 10 on it to be able to have a dual boot PC. I am not sure how to start. I have never done a dual OS install. Will just plugging in the SSD and installing Windows 10 via...