Questions tagged [dualboot]
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"Selected boot device failed. Press any button to reboot". gdisk shows disk with both GPT and MBR after converting back from a Windows dynamic drive
When trying to extend a partition from my SSD (which contained my Arch Linux partition), Windows converted it to a dynamic drive, which messed up my GRUB boot since apparently Linux can't read dynamic ...
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Unable to access secondary OS (Windows)
I currently have three storage devices on my PC: nvme1n1(windows OS), sda1(windows storage) and nvme01n1(Artix Linux(runit))
I am able to access the Artix installation fully and do what I want. ...
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Display bug on UEFI, grub, Linux and plugged in Windows
The bug
Hi, since a few days I have a really annoying bug: Black stripes are appearing in the top 40% of the screen and the bottom part freeze. This bug appear in Linux (Ubuntu 22.04), grub, UEFI and ...
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How to run Safe Exam Browser on Linux
for school I have to run the Safe Exam Browser (SEB), but on my Laptop I have installed Pop!_OS and SEB doesn't support Linux.
I tried running on a VM but it didn't work because the configuration is ...
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Can I move the /boot/efi and the swap partition?
I have a Manjaro/Windows 11 dual boot going on, but it seems I haven't allocated much space for the root filesystem (~25GB) and now it's warning me of low disk space, so I need to expand root space.
I ...
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unable to unlock advanced settings of bios in haeir y11b laptop
I have Haier y11b laptop. it has two drives. one drive capacity is 30gb which has windows installed. the other drive capacity is 465gb. as the 30gb drive capacity is too low for other software to be ...
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Multi-boot Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Arch in a UEFI system with one disk
Goals:
Multiboot, where I can select Windows, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Arch in the Grub menu.
I guess only one of the Linux dists (Ubuntu?) should be in charge of the Grub EFI binary.
But the different ...
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Windows Disk Partition showing wrong capacity for dual boot
I want to make dual boot Windows and Fedora. I currently have Windows 11. When I want to shrink my disk (C:) it says there is only 18044 available. Which is 18 GB. This PC shows that there is 170 GB ...
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UEFI not showing boot entries
Basically, the Windows Boot Manager entry does not show up neither on my boot menu, or on my boot priorities.
I have encryption on my Windows (BitLocker)
On the boot menu, it's only showing all my ...
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Installing Windows 10 alongside Arch Linux
I have Arch installed on a Dell laptop (on a separate internal HDD - that holds upto 1TB), and it is running completely fine. I recently removed the Windows 11 installed on my Daichi nvme, and there ...
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can you change the BIOS on old HP laptop?
i have a old HP laptop with 2 OS's and was wanting to try to change the BIOS to something neater and has dual-boot tools.
My questions are:
is it even possible to change the BIOS on laptops?
is ...
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Dual booting laptop with new UEFI windows 10 and linux mint taken from old SSD of a dead laptop with MBR
I've got an old laptop ssd (with linux mint installation) that I am trying to dual boot with a newer laptop running windows 10. Problem is Windows is UEFI whereas SSD is using MBR as it is from an old ...
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Need Address Book to Appear in ALL Dual Boot Operating Systems
My main computer has 3 O/S's (WinXP, Win7, and Win10) on separate partitions. I initially (YEEAARS ago) set up Thunderbird in XP. Added a Win7 partition (maybe 2010 or so) using the T-Bird e-mail ...
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How to manually setup Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04 Dual Boot under UEFI
Note: Please read the full post with due diligence before posting comments/answers or downvoting/closing this question. In case your solution pertains to using some third party boot manager please ...
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Dualboot: Windows does not show up when selecting boot priority
I dualboot windows 10 (21H1 build 19043.1110) and Linux Mint 22.04 on the same 2TB HDD. My motherboard is a Gigabyte H310M S2V 2.0. My BIOS version is F11 (I have never updated it). I can get into ...
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Shrinking Volume in Windows Disk Management not shrinking [duplicate]
This has been asked in the past, and been answered, but none of those solutions have worked, which is why I'm creating a post.
Quick Background on my system:
I have two drives.
The drive that I'm ...
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How to fix Windows boot after grub installed? [duplicate]
I had a laptop running Windows 10, quite nicely. I used an Ubuntu installer to try and install a dual-boot system. When it asked me if I wanted to let it install grub in the boot record, I pointedly ...
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How to switch OS in Dual Boot from remote?
I want to setup my desktop with dualboot such that i can switch between the two OSes from remote. Specifically, Windows 10 and Fedora 38.
I usually boot it remotely using Wake on LAN, so it would be ...
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UEFI system settings are not accessible by keypress
After configuring dual-boot with 2 nvme-ssds it is impossible for me to reach the uefi system settings.
I have a manjaro drive with the grub bootloader, which is configured to also boot windows. ...
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Cannot access bios after dual-booting pop-os and windows 11
So I installed pop os on my SSD and just whiped the whole thing. I then made a second partition for Windows because I have games.
When I booted up normally it would just boot straight into the thing ...
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Clone Windows (11) to new SSD and dual-boot from new and old
I have added a secondary SSD to my laptop and cloned the disk with Clonezilla.
I call them SSD1 and SSD2.
Now I have two identical disks with Windows 11. But I'm not able to boot from the new ...
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Manjaro won‘t recognise nvme ssd
So I tried to dual boot with 2 nvme ssds however manjaro won’t recognise my 2nd nvme ssd.
In fact it won’t recognise any. I tried reformating it’s file system into pretty much everything and also ...
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I cannot find disk partition on ubuntu installation page ( screenshot attached in description)
Please I am carrying out a dual boot of ubuntu on my windows 11 home. I have gotten to the part where I have to cjoose a partition for the installation. I do not see my partitions. Attached is a ...
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Dual boot: Windows 10 locks non-mounted drive
I have a dual boot setup of Windows 10 and MX-Linux. Windows and linux are running on separate partitions of my SSD and on top of that I have an extra HDD formatted as NTFS for backup and stuff.
I ...
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Dual boot using two different SSDs, where the windows one already has a grub loader
I have this problem:
I have an SSD running Windows. Some time ago I did a dual boot using an SD card, putting the /boot partition inside the SSD (ssd0). This worked fine.
Now I bought a new SSD (ssd1) ...
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Lost option in dual boot menu
I have dual boot on my machine: Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11.
I do not use the Grub menu to choose the OS. Instead, I use the startup menu.
It have been working few weeks but now (I guess after some ...
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Dual boot separate shared partition vs shared home partition
I want to make a comfy dual boot of windows and linux (arch I guess) so their downloads, documents etc. are the same. I think that would be quite convenient.
And I'd like to use a separate home ...
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Cannot delete ubuntu directory from EFI partition
I followed this answer trying to delete Ubuntu from dualboot https://askubuntu.com/questions/1150814/how-to-remove-ubuntu-from-efi-partition
Error states that there's no such directory, even though it ...
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Can you make "offline" ssd with grub
I have an SSD with Ubuntu where GRUB is located (I think it should be there because I installed grub when I was on Ubuntu). I also have nvme ssd with Windows, and another hdd used by that windows as a ...
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Can you dual boot two operating systems on seperate disks and one is removable?
I want to dual-boot with Linux (Debian) being my primary operating system on internal SSD and Windows 10 on an separate external SSD as my secondary, because my laptop has only one disk storage slot.
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Windows 11 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 dual boot not working with GRUB
I have problems with RHEL 9 and Windows 11 in GRUB.
I added menuentry "Windows 11" {set root=(sda1) chainloader +1} to /etc/grub.d/40_custom and then executed the command grub2-mkconfig --...
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Dual Boot on different SSD, I want my 2 HDDs to be assigned to different 2 OS each when I boot one OS
I am trying to create two environments. I want both OS to be Windows 10. One OS on one SSD and a second on another SSD.
One SSD will be for Games and the other for Work. I have two HDDs. I want to ...
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Dual boot is not working on windows 11
I have just installed elementaryOS on a partition of my harddrive. I can boot into either windows or elementary at will by intercepting the startup and changing my boot device but i expect windows to ...
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add windows partition to my grub entry
hello i have dual booted windows and arch linux on my machine ( lenovo ideapad core i5 HDD 1TB).
and i am able only to access arch linux my windows boot isn't showing on the grub boot menu.
can ...
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Having issues with Windows 10/11 running dualbooted Zorin (Ubuntu Fork)
I'm having issues getting windows to run in AHCI mode. When I switch my bios into AHCI, windows bluescreens, as expected- but RegEdit isn't saving my changes to storahci and iaStorV to allow windows ...
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Fedora 37 Dual Boot | Not Enough Space for Grub.Img
Hey thanks for your help
It's been about 2 days asking random forums for help. I'm just trying to do dual boot with Linux Fedora 37 KDE, here is the outline of what I've done so far.
The drive where ...
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Can a computer reboot unexpectedly because of a BitLocked partition on dual boot with Windows and Linux?
I just bought a new computer a few days ago with Windows 10 preinstalled. I did a dual boot with Xubuntu 18.04, and that causes to BitLock the Windows partition, as in this thread:
Windows 10 ...
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Booting in WIndows 10 Installer from Grub
I have a 250GB drive on GPT. There are three partitions, boot, root,home for Ubuntu. I have recently had to add Windows 10, so I partitioned home and opened up about 60GB for Windows 10.
I did (try to ...
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Reinstalling windows from scratch
I've just purchased a new PC. As expected, it came with a somewhat preinstalled windows (I wonder how that works, since it seems to go through the normal installation process, but ends up with ...
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Installing Ubuntu 20.04.5 after deleting partition with 22.04 on dual boot computer
So in an attemp to "uninstall" ubuntu 22.04 I deleted the partition where it was installed, I had some problems and I realized I wanted to install ubuntu 20.04 instead. After deleting the ...
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Struggle to bind certain keyboard shortcuts to windows tiling on Linux Mint XFCE
I use Linux Mint 21 xfce, as a dualboot on a laptop with native Win10 (Acer Aspire E571). I struggle to make certain window displacement shortcuts work. In "Windows Manager" I've set "...
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Can’t select which OS to boot into on a dual boot Linux Mint / Windows machine
I have been trying to install Linux for so long that finally, I've succeeded to install LMDE on my external hard drive.
The problem is when the installation finished it asked me if I want to restart ...
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dual boot windows won't detect 2k resolution after ubuntu
I have installed Ubuntu on my Windows 10 laptop as a second OS. I also have a second monitor, samsung g5 2k 32inch. However, after I have set my screen on Ubuntu, windows started to give me only 1080p ...
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How to install Ubuntu bootloader on a particular disk?
I have an SSD (Samsung MZVL....) and an HDD (WDC WD10S.....) on my computer (Lenovo ideapad). Mostly, I use Windows, which is installed on the SSD, but sometimes I need Ubuntu too. My scheme until ...
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Dualbooted computer gets stuck while booting ubuntu 22
I have a dual-booted computer (windows 10 and ubuntu 22) that gets stuck on the loading screen when booting into ubuntu after the computer has been turned off.
If I first boot into Windows, then press ...
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"A failure may be iminent and cause unpredictable fail" error after dual booting Windows 11 + Ubuntu
I was using Windows 11 and did a dual boot (via flash usb) in Ubuntu 22. For the first coupe days, everything went normal, but then every time I turn the PC on, the "A failure may be iminent and ...
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Dual Boot, win 11 won't boot without win 10 drive connected
PLease help, cause I am running out of ideas.
I have a win 11 system drive(NVMe) and an empty win 10 drive(SSD) which was formerly a system drive (so it has efi partition etc.).
Now, when I detach the ...
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My PC shuts down at boot when I installed Debian 11
I am trying to install Debian 11 to bare metal (dual booting with Windows), I have a 100 GB free volume, I used encryption with dm-crypt.
The setup completes fine but when I try to boot it shows me ...
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Strange Issue with Hard Drive accessible from both Windows 11 and Manjaro KDE
I have a dual boot setup, Windows 11 on one SSD and Manjaro Linux on the other. I also have several data hard drives, all with GPT partition tables and formatted to NTFS and accessible from both OS's.
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How to repair/recover windows 10 that won't boot
On a Dell XPS-15-9500, I had a dual boot installation of Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 that worked well for a long time. Then something strange happened (I think after a Windows update) and neither ...
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