[SOLVED] How to dual boot Win11Pro/Win10P with two drives?

[Imacflier]

I have two drives. One contains a bootable copy of Win11Pro. The other contains a bootable copy of Win10Pro. If I attach both drives do I end up with a dual boot system? If not, then how?

TIA,

Larry

 

[USAFRet]

I have two drives. One contains a bootable copy of Win11Pro. The other contains a bootable copy of Win10Pro. If I attach both drives do I end up with a dual boot system? If not, then how?

TIA,

Larry

Dual boot.
You power up, interrupt the boot process, and select which drive to boot from.

You're only running one at a time.

Was both of these drrives installed while there were in this particular system, and the ONLY drive at the time?

 

[Math Geek]

with both drives installed, you set the default drive in BIOS. at start-up if you want the second drive to boot then you press F8 to select it.

if you want a menu and all that to auto create then you have to install win 10 again with your win 11 drive there. this will add the menu and such.

but it's pretty easy if they are both bootable to just hit F8.

i do this myself with a linux distro and win 7. defaults to linux but a quick F8 lets me swap to win 7.

 

[Imacflier]

Dual boot.
You power up, interrupt the boot process, and select which drive to boot from.

You're only running one at a time.

Was both of these drrives installed while there were in this particular system, and the ONLY drive at the time?

Yes, both drives were separately installed in the system and were stable.

Larry

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, both drives were separately installed in the system and were stable.

Larry

Then you should be good to go.

 

[John Chesterfield]

with both drives installed, you set the default drive in BIOS. at start-up if you want the second drive to boot then you press F8 to select it.

if you want a menu and all that to auto create then you have to install win 10 again with your win 11 drive there. this will add the menu and such.

but it's pretty easy if they are both bootable to just hit F8.

i do this myself with a linux distro and win 7. defaults to linux but a quick F8 lets me swap to win 7.

And don't do the menu thing, otherwise when you remove one of the drives, the other may not boot Windows. That's fixable but is unnecessary messing around. Keep as is and use BIOS key to select OS.