Questions tagged [multi-boot]
Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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Dual boot Windows 10 partition has become non-bootable. How can I make it bootable again?
I have a Dell Precision laptop with Windows 10 Professional on a pair of partitions on the main (MBR, 480 GB) SSD. Under linux they show as /dev/sda1 (576 MB NTFS) and /dev/sda2 (43 GB NTFS). They ...
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Installing Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu while keeping Windows 10 as isolated as possible
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I want to dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu, while treating Windows as the secondary OS similarly to how bootcamp does with macOS, but I'm not sure all what I have to do in the Windows side of ...
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How to Move Linux partition but keep the dual boot
have a Windows 10 and Arch Linux dual boot system on my 1 TB m.2 ssd. Because I have a lot of games in Windows, I got myself another 1 TB Samsung 860 evo. I would like to move my entire Linux ...
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dual booting a larger 3TB hard drive in legacy mode or EFI only?
For a "new" refurbished PC:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep -A3 '^System Information'
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex 790
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Assigned drive letters vary on WIN 7/ WIN 10 dual boot
I recently created a dual boot system with WIN 7 & WIN 10 (both operating systems are on separate physical drives), but have noticed that the drive letters that are assigned to the various ...
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Dual-boot windows 7 + linux black screen during boot
Currently I am encountering an issue with my dual-boot (Windows 7/Fedora) Dell laptop.
Few days ago when i was doing some works using Fedora, the system was suddenly frozen. From then, when I turn on ...
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Deleting Recovery partition on a hard drive without OS
I want to create a windows+linux dual boot setup on my PC. I have 3 drives in total, two SSDs(Disks 0 and 1) for each OS and a HDD(Disk 2) that I plan to format and use with NTFS file system for ...
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Can you run two operating systems on separate CPU cores without virtualization? [duplicate]
Let's imagine we have a quad-core CPU. Now, I'm wondering if it is possible to run – let's say – Windows on 2 of the cores and Linux on the other 2 cores.
And – before someone marks this as a ...
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Boot Linux Ubuntu using Windows Boot Manager in Legacy mode, is this possible?
It might sound a noob question from the title, but I'm pretty new into operating systems.
I have a laptop and I would like to run Ubuntu alongside Windows 7. Windows 7 is the default OS, and the ...
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OneDrive in same folder for both Windows 7 and Windows 10 on same PC
Similar to this question, but with OneDrive, and with Win7 & Win10.
I have my PC set up with dual boot to Windows 7 and Windows 10 -- they are two separate partitions on the same SSD. Now, I want ...
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How may i move windows 10 to a folder and boot it from there?
What's needed to enable multiboot of more than one windows 10 install without needing any additional partitions? i imagine it might be possible by booting into something else and moving a list of ...
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Understanding the boot process and dual booting
I have a new computer that I want to run both Windows and Ubuntu.
When I install ubuntu or windows using an USB drive, is it the bios that will display which operating system I want to boot into ...
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Create bootable USB with boot manager to dual-boot Windows and Android x86
I tried to install Remix OS (Android x86) on my Windows 10 computer.
Unfortunately it overwrote my current bootloader and now I can't boot into Windows nor the newly installed Android. What should I ...
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How can I install Windows 7 64bit on both MBR or GPT partition?
I want to make a multiboot usb toolkit with different versions of Linux and Windows. I've read that you can only install Windows 7 on MBR and Windows 10 on GPT (tell me if I am wrong).
I found the ...
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Windows 10 on one SSD is corrupting windows 10 on the other SSD
I have two SSDs. I installed windows 10 on one SSD and removed the SSD. When I installed windows 10 on the second SSD. When I insert both SSDs to computer and boot one of windows 10, it is corrupting ...
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Multiboot a cloned drive with windows
I have cloned a windows installed drive from an old hard disk to an empty space(f:) of a new hard disk, the new hard disk already has a windows bootable c: drive.
The new hard disk now has,
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GPT disk with 2 Windows 10 LTSC Bootable partitions
I'm setting up a machine that requires 2 bootable partitions with a disk that's setup for GPT. The reason for 2 identical OS has to do with the applications that will be installed on each partition. ...
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EasyBCD Boot Device different to Windows Boot Manager device
Can someone explain why EasyBCD has a different Boot Device to the Windows Boot Manager device? My drives use MBR (not GPT).
BCDedit shows this at the beginning:
Windows Boot Manager
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How do computers know which operating system to boot?
When I turn on my computer, what is the software that selects which operating system to boot, and how does it decide when given multiple options?
More specifically, what if I have a computer with ...
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Issues about using an external USB HDD for multibooting & data storage [closed]
I’d like to use a 5TB external USB HDD for multibooting GParted, Ubuntu Studio 19.10 and Windows 10, while still being able to use it as my data storage drive. I know I could buy a 16GB pendrive for ...
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VirtualBox virtualize existing OS
I have Windows 10 (installed on my SSD) and Linux Mint (installed on a partition of my HDD) setup for dual boot. Now I'm trying to set up VirtualBox such that I can virtualize the Mint from my Windows....
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Dual Boot Windows/Debian no longer boot Windows. How to access cmd prompt?
I have a dual boot notebook that had Win10 and Debian installed, after using windows yesterday the debian/GRUB would no longer boot. (BTW that is still a problem, if you can help see this)
While ...
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Multiboot (Windows) with partitions non accessible from one to the other
Computers are never enough for me.....unfortunately.
So i had an idea now of upgrading my computer, upgrade it to full specs (as usual), and create a multi-boot drive.
Possibly, about 6 or 7 boot ...
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Fedora UEFI and BIOS
I am a bit confused with that BIOS/UEFI thing on Fedora.
I have dual boot Windows 10 (on my SSD) and a freshly installed Fedora 31 Workstation (on my HDD).
When I check the BIOS Mode in Windows is ...
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Kali Linux dual boot installation: unusable partition
So I was trying to install Kali Linux in dual boot with Windows 10 on my laptop but when I got to select the partition and make the swap area or whatever it is the 30 GB I removed from my windows ...
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e2fsck error when trying to move Windows MSR partition with GParted
I have a dual boot Linux / Windows system, and I only allocated about 120 GB of the 2 TB drive for Windows, and now I want to make it bigger.
I have read similar posts such as
https://askubuntu.com/...
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Make Windows enter BIOS on start screen per default, without key combination?
How can I achieve the question in the title?
I need this because I have a dual partition Windows and Ubuntu 18.04. and I can't set Ubuntu to be the default OS on start-up. Furthermore, the bios key ...
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Boot Windows From SSD
I recently system cloned my windows 10 via ease us backup to ssd. It showed that drive as A in windows. I am not getting option in bios to boot via ssd. I have linux dual booted, so I ran sudo grub-...
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Dual Boot: Can disabled tools be re-enabled after the dual boot is complete?
I'm a little new to linux. I notice on some dual boot tutorials they'll ask you to disable several things in order to proceed with the dual boot steps. For example if you have windows pre-installed, ...
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SSD thinks it's larger than it actually is
I'm trying to install Fedora alongside Windows 10 on a new laptop. The laptop has two 512GB SSD disks, which in the Disk Management tool showed as just one 1TB disk. I shrunk the partition on which ...
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How can I create a multiboot USB drive? i.e. one USB stick that can be booted to Windows, Linux, diagnostic tools, etc
I'm aware this can't be done with Rufus, and I've tried YUMI to no avail.
I use several diagnostic tools on a regular basis (Hiren's Windows Boot CD, Lenovo utilities and a lightweight Linux OS) and ...
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How to UEFI dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu?
TL;DR: In a Windows 10 / Ubuntu UEFI dual-boot scenario, booting Windows 10 from Grub causes Windows Boot Manager to overwrite / remove Grub. How can I stop this from happening?
My PC has been ...
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Switch from Android to window
I have a dual booted Android-Windows 10 tablet.
Recently to get some space on Windows I deleted the Android files through Windows mode. After sometime I have switched to Android just to see what ...
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Is it possible to mount an ext4 partition in Windows, and move the ProgFiles and Users folders on that partition?
I am looking for the most storage-efficient way to dual boot windows and linux with linux being the 'primary' OS. I had an idea, that maybe I can create a very small partition that is just big enough ...
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Phantom jack detected in front panel
On my PC, dual boot (Windows, Linux) I have an annoying problem: from time to time (like every 15 seconds) my system(both windows, and Manjaro) detect the insertion of jack in the front panel. It also ...
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How can I configure Windows 10 EFI/Bootloader?
I am currently using a dual-boot setup with Windows 10 and Linux, which were on the same physical drive until today. I just purchased a new drive, and decided to move my Windows partition to the new ...
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How to restore second OS option on dual boot PC
WinXP installed after Win7. The option to load Windows 7 disappeared. I need to restore the boot menu to be able to choose Windows 7.
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Display off during Boot Manager OS selection on Surface Pro 7 with Windows 10 dual boot
I've successfully installed two versions of Windows 10 in my Surface Pro 7 (Windows 10 and Windows 10 Insider Preview Build):
C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit
Windows Boot Manager
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Using DISM to deploy a captured image to an arbitrary partition on another disk
(continued as a hopefully more concise and focused rewrite of my older post)
Given an existing installation of Windows 10 on a disk, is it possible to use the DISM tool to capture it and apply it to ...
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Windows keeps changing GPT table when it updates. How to prevent it?
Running dual boot on a single disk with several partitions. Apparently a lot of times windows will modify the partition table in such a way that linux/grub stops being the default. This happens once ...
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Grub prompt after installing AV Linux on old Ubuntu partition of dual boot (with Win 10) machine
I installed AV Linux on a prior Ubuntu partition on dual boot computer. My aim was/is to be able to dual boot AV Linux and Windows 10. I do not wish to lose the existing Windows installation.
After ...
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Multiboot USB with OTG Windows
How can I create a multiboot USB with Windows On The Go as 1 of the boot options? Ideally with MultiBootUSB.
Maybe I can create Windows OTG ISO from original one?
Tried to find answer from Creating ...
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OS not booting from secondary hard disk
Recently I replaced my Optical Drive with another Hard drive (so it is my secondary hard drive) on my laptop Dell Inspiron 15 3542.
Now I installed my Windows 10 on the primary hard drive and Ubuntu ...
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Triple boot questions/issues
I was running Win 7 and Ubuntu 18.04 as dual boot. No issues, Grub was working fine. Decided it was time to try Win 10. Bought Home version directly from Microsoft. I shrank the Win 7 partition to get ...
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Forcing to show grub boot menu always
In Ubuntu I have the following weird issue: I have a dual boot system with Windows 10 and Ubuntu on /dev/sda7. I set up grub to automatically boot Windows 10. Additionally I am accessing the system ...
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Unable to boot using Fedora Live USB on LG Gram 17
I am trying to install Fedora 31 on my LG Gram 17. I was able to boot originally through a Live USB created using Fedora media writer once i disabled the secure boot option in the bios.
My existing ...
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how to boot from selected partition in Raspberry PI 3?
I dont have extensive knowledge about bootloaders. I have some problem about updating the image in a SD card. I have a raspberry PI and i would like to make two partitions in the SD card, so that one ...
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Why will my trackpad and keyboard not work with dual booted Kali Linux on Mac?
Due to my current circumstances, I need to dual boot Kali Linux on my MacBook Pro (2018). I managed to burn the image onto an external flash drive and load to the desktop in the Kali OS.
My problem ...
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Dual Boot Win 7 on MBR with Win 10 on GPT
I am currently using Windows 7 and want to install Windows 10 in a dual boot configuration.
My Windows 7 disk uses MBR.
My Asus motherboard bios shows
CSM: enabled
Boot Device Control: UEFI and ...
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dual boot, dual drive Macbook pro unibody mid 2012
I have recently bought a new SSD for my macbook pro, and plans to put my old HDD in a caddy and place it on the optical drive slot.
In my old HDD is ParrotOS and some important files. I plan to ...
