[SOLVED] Dual Boot Win 10/Win 11 – Partitions or Separate Drives?

[Dylan Beckett]

Dual Boot Win 10/Win 11 – Partitions or Separate Drives?

Hello

I’m probably going to want to do a Dual boot for both Windows 10 and Windows 11 on my new build.

Does it make any difference if I do this on the same Drive – just partitioned vs on two separate physical drives?

I’ll put most program installations on the system drives, but put games on their own drive.

Also, until Win 11 is properly debugged etc; I’ll probably just install almost all my programs on Win 10 and only use Win 11 very occasionally for one or two specific programs.

Would they run better on separate drives – or make no difference?

Would it impact cloning and or auto-backups etc?


Also – I have a 1TB PCIE 4.0 NVME I’m planning on using for the System drive… I figured I could split that and hopefully guarantee my windows install partitions would never get maxed out (like this last one has)….

Do you think 2x 500GB partitions would be plenty for dual boot on the one drive with ‘far more room than you need’ to be safe?

Or should I just get either 2x 500gb or, 2 x 250gb (surely that’s cutting it too fine for future bloating of update etc) drives instead?

I could still take the 1TB back and swap it – which is why I’m wondering?


Thank you for your help

 

[Lafong]

I haven't dual booted in a long time, but the conventional wisdom always was to use 2 different drives if possible to avoid headaches.

Yes, it can be done on a single drive.

 

[Dylan Beckett]

yeah I think I'm likely to end up going that way now too


cheers

 

[Colif]

2 drives just means you may not lose both if one windows dies.
on one drive it means you either have backups of entire drive or you face a complete install of both OS if it all falls apart.

tbh I don't see need to dual boot 2 OS that are so similar I can't tell them apart but it is up to you. Looks more trouble than its worth.