Dual boot windows

Jesse_84

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Mar 8, 2017
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Am i able to have two separate drives on a machine with windows installed? I know i can on the same drive but everytime i try the first one boots fine then after i install the second i get windows boot manager errors and neither will boot. Even if i choose a certain on in boot options via bios. What am i doing wrong here?
 
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Yes you can. All of my drives are bootable.
Since I dont want my boot to not be affected by other drives not being installed, I installed windows with only that drive installed.
After all drives are done is the only time that I install more then 1 (currently 4 drives installed) and I set the bios to boot the one I want to be my main drive.

To boot into another I use the F-key option to select a boot drive during POST (F11 on my pc)
Yes you can. All of my drives are bootable.
Since I dont want my boot to not be affected by other drives not being installed, I installed windows with only that drive installed.
After all drives are done is the only time that I install more then 1 (currently 4 drives installed) and I set the bios to boot the one I want to be my main drive.

To boot into another I use the F-key option to select a boot drive during POST (F11 on my pc)
 
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This is the way I do it. I currently have three separate SSDs installed, Windows 10, Linux Mint 18.2 and openSUSE. This works like a charm.