Question question on windows/ubuntu dual boot setup

[DuaneWhitney]

I'd like to set up a dual boot for a new build (msi x870e carbon with ryzen 9950x). on one ssd i'd like to run windows. on the other ubuntu. are there any issues/problems with doing this? my main use is for deep learning and machine learning. windows would be used for building models off the cpu. ubuntu for training using the gpu (waiting to buy after the next nvidia release).

any advice/experience with this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Duane.

 

[CountMike]

I'd like to set up a dual boot for a new build (msi x870e carbon with ryzen 9950x). on one ssd i'd like to run windows. on the other ubuntu. are there any issues/problems with doing this? my main use is for deep learning and machine learning. windows would be used for building models off the cpu. ubuntu for training using the gpu (waiting to buy after the next nvidia release).

any advice/experience with this is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Duane.

No, no problems if you disable one disk while installing other OS, I run Windows and Mint like that for years but you have to do that every time you reinstall one OS or the other.

 

[RAIDGoblin]

No, no problems if you disable one disk while installing other OS, I run Windows and Mint like that for years but you have to do that every time you reinstall one OS or the other.

this, I gave up on windows years ago but when I use to use it that's how I had mine set up, partitioning disks was too annoying

 

[CountMike]

this, I gave up on windows years ago but when I use to use it that's how I had mine set up, partitioning disks was too annoying

I've run them both on same disk too. Once properly partitioned only thing left is BOOT sector but windows and Linux use same convention as both hail from Unix anyway.. Once cheap SSDs were available, using separate disks became more practical. My favorite is to BOOT to Windows disk as primary and make BOOT menu in it from which to choose windows or Linux instead of switching in BIOS. There's even a neat utility called EasyBCD for windows to do it from instead doing it manually thru Msconfig.exe

EasyBCD

EasyBCD is a software utility for Windows that lets you control and configure the BCD/BOOTMGR bootloader for Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11 for dual-boots.

neosmart.net

There are other options though, running one in a Virtual Machine hosted in other OS. Very handy when one OS is used predominantly. Running Linux from a fast USB stick if used only occasionally.

 

[RAIDGoblin]

I've run them both on same disk too. Once properly partitioned only thing left is BOOT sector but windows and Linux use same convention as both hail from Unix anyway.. Once cheap SSDs were available, using separate disks became more practical. My favorite is to BOOT to Windows disk as primary and make BOOT menu in it from which to choose windows or Linux instead of switching in BIOS

I always made Debian primary and used GRUB to choose which way to boot, that way it would just auto boot to Debian unless I told it not to, because it was Debian I used most often, but after a brief google people do seem to agree that it's easier to make windows the primary

it's been years since I set up a system like this tho, so my memory of how I did it is quite hazy, if the OP has any more questions you're definitely the best one to answer

(edited for spelling)

 

[Math Geek]

i prefer each OS to be on its own physical drive. with only 1 drive installed, get one OS running. then swap out the drive for the other and get the second OS running.

the install both and chose which to default to in BIOS and rely on the boot menu to swap to the secondary one when you wish to use it.

saves a lot of grief when trying to figure out boot partitions and such. if you ever decide to remove one, it's as simple as formatting the drive rather than trying to preserve the boot structure from 2 totally different OS's while removing one or the other.

saves a ton of trouble and worth the small effort to swap out the drives once as you install everything.