Dual boot windows

Hello, I have installed a second windows 10 on my laptop, and although the both appear as I want them to in the BCD, when I try to boot into the second one, the computer does a reboot first before entering that system. Is there a way to disable this from happening and to be able to boot both my...

Hi, I've recently installed Mint on a laptop with Windows 10 on it, and dual boot works OK except that when I try to shut down Windows, Windows says it's shutting down but then goes back to the Windows login screen. But if I restart Windows, the system shuts down and restarts, and goes to BIOS...

TL;DR Dual boot Windows has three Windows OS choices on OS selection screen during startup for some reason. I need help getting rid of one of them. I wanted to do a dual boot set up, so here's a little context. I initially had Windows 10 installed on a m.2 NVMe SSD drive and then installed...

I have started this journey to dual boot windows 10 and windows 7. Pc specs: msi mpg z490 gaming carbon wifi I7 10700k Rtx 3080 32gb ram 250gb nvme windows 10 500gb ssd for windows 7 I have a PC running windows 10 and I would like to install windows 7 on a separate SSD so I can dual boot and...

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...

Hello. So I hope I am putting this in the right forum area. I am getting my computer ready to go to windows 11, but this is a windows 10 problem. I'm doing dual boot and I want to get rid of the linux partition so I have been reading up on this. I would like to have it boot automatically to...

A very good morning/afternoon, Recently I've been running into storage issues on my main SSD, so I decided to upgrade it to a faster and bigger one. I got the SSD and installed windows 10 on it so I could copy what files I wanted from the old install to the new one. Due to a very busy work...

Hello, so i want to dual boot windows 10 and windows 7 on my primary rig. i want to use windows 7 for legacy phone rooting, legacy iphones and just for older devices i own. Problem is that i am afraid to lose my data if i install windows 7. I have integrated tpm 2.0 enabled in my asus bios...

There are many creative programs I have to use for my job. Adobe Creative Suite, Cinema 4D, Houdini, Davinci Resolve, Redshift, Arnold Renderer, and so on ad nauseam. And all of this for the most part works fine. Here is the thing though, I want to install music software like Cubase, Komplete...

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...

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...

hi, i have win7 & win10 on separate hard drives but i have forgot how in the past on boot up i have the option to chose which one to load into each time, if anyone knows please can you let me know as that would be great the other windows 7 that was on another pc and upgraded that to windows...

I'll like the option to boot the old Win10 UEFI disk on the machine I just setup with a SSD. I'm not sure how to do that. Standard secure boot is enabled. What I've done: Installed the latest bios from Dell on my machine (service tag BB7BV52) Disconnected the exiting magnetic disk and...

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...

Hi, I have WinXP already installed on a disk and want to add Win 10 in a dual boot configuration. Most of what I have been reading suggests that Win10 is alrady installed and then go on to describe setting up XP as 2nd system. So I am doing the opposite. My motherboard is an Asus P5K, non...

Hello, I can't update my windows 10 version, because it keeps getting stuck at restarting. I have a dual boot system, I use windows 7 ultimate as a main, and windows 10 pro as secondary and if I want to use windows 10 pro I have to get into bios and do it there, also I need to use windows 7

I have a dual boot with Windows 10 and ubuntu 16.04. Last night i got the option "update and shut down" and i clicked that. Today i started my system, and everything was normal. I started ubuntu, and shut down normally. But since then, whenever i start, nither the bios screen nor grub appears...

I'm preparing for the EOL of Windows 7, but I don't want to not have it because, well, I love it. My current setup is one hard drive for the Windows 7 (and its files) and another hard drive for backing up the first hard drive on a schedule. What I want to do is buy a third hard drive (no...