Questions tagged [multi-boot]
Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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Dual boot between the same linux OS on two different disks?
I have a computer with two separate hard drives, I want to use one for personal use, and one for work related uses.
Since I am quite used to Debian, I thought I could simply install the first instance ...
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Dual boot Ubuntu after format, it seems I have both Ubuntu versions now
Title can be confusing, I wanted to summarize my problem. I am open to suggestions, so sorry for that.
I had Windows 11 and Ubuntu 18.04 both installed as dual boot. I wanted to delete Ubuntu 18.04 ...
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How to hide two Windows installations from each other?
I have Windows 11 Pro and Windows 10 Pro installed side by side on the same computer. (Why? Because reasons.) Requirements are that 11 must be running Bitlocker, and SecureBoot must be enabled (due to ...
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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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Another Triple Boot Classic Mac Pro Project
Forgive me for asking a question that has been asked a number of times over the last many years. In my case after several weeks of searching and researching, I have not found an answer that is current ...
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grub mkconfig finds Fedora and updates the config file, but Fedora doesn't appear in GRUB after reboot
I am a bit new to Linux, so please excuse my lack of knowledge and skill. I basically tried to triple boot Windows, Fedora, and Arch. I have two drives in my computer. One of them has Windows ...
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PC keeps changing boot order automatically (Windows/Linux dualboot)
I have a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Pro mainboard, and in the BIOS settings I set the first boot drive to my 250GB SSD which has Windows 10 installed, and the second boot drive to my 500GB SSD which has ...
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manually add boot entry
I recently had to reinstall windows. I have 2 hdd's, both with windows installed, but only had to reinstall on one of them.
However now my boot selection screen (to choose which of the hdds/windows ...
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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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How to enter BIOS menu?
Laptop Fujitsu LH532.
After an unsuccessful attempt to install Arch Linux, I cannot enter the BIOS menu of the laptop. It just beeps, power keeps being on, but it doesn't load anything and does not ...
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How to repair the bootloader for a bitlocker encrypted drive
I tried to create a dual boot setup with Windows 10 (BitLocker encrypted) and Manjaro Linux (on 2 separate drives) but this didn't work. Now I have only the option to boot Linux, Windows doesn't show ...
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Linux update affects Windows in dual-boot?
I have the following fresh dualboot setup on my laptop:
Windows 11 Pro + Rocky Linux 9 on separate partitions
EFI secure boot in use
I enabled filesystem encryption on Rocky Linux when installing it ...
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I get an error invalid format at initial stage after kali linux logo
I get an error invalid format at initial stage in Kali Linux and screen goes blue. How can i solve this issue? Dual boot Kali install. I am new to use Kali Linux.
Thanks
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How do I get rid of GRUB and go back to Windows 10 only
There are answers to similar questions about prior Windows releases (XP and 7 mostly), but I cannot follow them in Windows 10. Too many menu options and commands do not exist in Windows 10.
My ...
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Windows 11 installed on a refurbished HP so that I can't suppress Secure boot mode to boot on USB
I recently bought a refurbished HP Z4 G4 with windows 11 already installed. In order to dual boot, I have to change the bios/UEFI Secure Boot to disable (and legacy to enable). I am able to change it ...
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How to setup a dualboot with Debian and FreeDOS
I am running Debian on a very old EEEPC which is ok. Unfortunately its Intel-Atom-Processor is not capable of virtualizing a second OS. So I would like to add FreeDOS to GRUB and run it natively to ...
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GRUB Repair with Windows 10 Dual Boot Arch Linux
I've been using Arch Linux for 4 months and I was trying to have Dual Boot with Windows 10. After the installation of Windows 10 and formatting the disk again it went great, zero problems, but, when I ...
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How do I dual boot two versions of Windows 10 while hiding all other disk partitions from the 2nd win install
GPT partitions, EFI boot.
I want to have 2 windows 10 installs, one "normal" and other as a "test". I don't want the "test" version not to be able to change or even see ...
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My internal hard drive only appears in the windows operating system
Does anyone have an idea why my disk only appears in windows.
I have tried to install kali linux, wifislax, chrome flux and many other systems, but the problem is that the internal disk of the device ...
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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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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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dual boot debian and windows 11 with veracrypt
I have an hp laptop with windows 11 and whole disk encryption with AES using veracrypt, is there any way to have it dual boot with DragonOS (an sdr linux distro based on debian buster) without having ...
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How do I dual boot with 2 linux distros of the same name?
I'm trying to install Artix linux on UEFI, however i already have an Artix system installed on my desktop, which i'm trying to dual boot a second installation of Artix with (because the first one just....
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Stuck in GRUB command line, even after grub updates
I am dual booting PopOS and Windows 11 on my Dell Laptop.
Today I was doing some updates to nvidia drivers (probably unrelated) and after a reboot I was stuck inside the GRUB shell (not the rescue ...
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windows refuses to boot from original nvme drive after cloning to a sata drive
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After learning about a potential firmware issue with one of my nvme drives (search: Samsung 980/990 pro read-only bricking 2023 February). I decided to apply the appropriate firmware ...
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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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Re-adding .efi file to uefi boot
After upgrading to windows 11 my Kali Linux entry disappeared from the Boot menu. When I hit F9 (select boot device) I can select windows, or I can browse the efi partition and select the grubx64.efi ...
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windows partition rotten following partition size change on a dual-boot Windows/Linux
I am stuck:
On a dual-boot Windows/Linux PC, in order to enlarge the boot partition which was running out of space to update the kernel, I wanted to move a Windows partition that had the system 32 ...
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Dual boot Win 11 & Ubuntu
Does my PC (https://www.dell.com/en-uk/shop/laptop-computers-2-in-1-pcs/vostro-3525/spd/vostro-15-3525-laptop) support dual booting Win 11 and Ubuntu. I tried several times and followed the ...
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multi boot: deleting a GPT partition with sgdisk before the Windows 10 partition breaks Windows 10 boot
After deleting my first partition from Debian with sgdisk, I get a BSOD when booting Windows 10:
Votre appareil a rencontré un problème et doit être redémarré. Nous
allons redémarrer l'ordinateur ...
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Dual Boot Win 10/11 - want to change from my current Windows Boot Manager selection to simple BIOS disk order boot
Current state:
Dual Boot Windows Environment on separate HDs (one HD has Win 10 installed, the other HD has Win 11 installed). Win 11 installed on HD 1, Win 10 installed on HD 2
Both are Bitlocker ...
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How to manage GRUB when there are multiple drives and multiple OS releases
I have a system with 6 internal, and two permanently-attached USB3 external hard drives. I also have (at the moment) 5 different OS-es installed (counting 1 Windows 10 install). I'm having trouble ...
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repair boot with encrypted partitions
I am trying to repair my system boot with boot-repair.
I used to have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu and installed Manjaro alongside.
Unfortunately, Windows does no longer show in the boot menu.
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How to remove GRUB (and Linux) and restore Microsoft boot manager?
I have an old laptop with Windows 10 on it (it was 8 originally), and it has been through a lot with me. I want to take it through some more, and perhaps give it to a colleague of mine. It had ...
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How to fix E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock. It is held by process 1044 (packagekitd)
Recently, I have bought a 64GB SD card for dual booting Ubuntu on my computer. It works at first, but when I try to run
sudo apt upgrade
It gives me this:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/...
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Running one OS of a dual boot system as a VM guest of the other OS
I have a machine which has one installation of Windows on one drive and one installation of Ubuntu on another drive, which I can select during boot via a boot menu.
This way I have to decide which OS ...
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How can I install Windows on two separate disks separately?
I want to have two separate Windows installations on two separate disks on my PC (with Secure Boot enabled). The first installation succeeds and works fine, but when I try to install another Windows ...
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Windows 10 fast startup locking non-OS physical HDD
I've a system containing HDD and SSD, the SSD has one partition with Windows 10 installed on it, and the HDD has two partitions, the first is an Ubuntu partition and the second is a shared data ...
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Is it possible to re-install a particular OS out of multi-boot operating systems?
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I am having 1 Tb hard disk and 1 Tb SSD.Having 4 operating systems installed (multi-boot) on them ( 2 Ubuntu and 2 Windows ). Out of 2 Ubuntu, one is on hard disk and one is on the SSD. ...
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Boot shortcut into a specific partition
I have a dual boot setup which works just fine
Both partitions run windows 10
By default the main partition a is loaded on boot . I can boot into partition b by pressing shift + restart ( or through ...
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How to recover files from macOS after accidentally overwriting it with Linux> [duplicate]
I'm not a kid (this is an alt account with a different email. I forgot the other password of @adamgewely)
But I accidentally replaced macOS with Linux! I had important files there. Thinking it was on ...
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Make Linux GRUB run directly multiple Windows systems
With a triple boot system on BIOS/Legacy disk, I tested a solution to avoid the Windows Boot Manager menu triggered by the Linux GRUB (see here) and make the Windows systems start directly from the ...
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Boot-Repair aftermath
So recently I was asking a question about how to fix Grub if I'm installing Windows after Ubuntu. I found the solution and posted it in order to help others who will do the same. But now I want to ask ...
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EFI Partition not taking up full space
I originally installed Windows onto my computer, so it had the default 100MB EFI Partition. Recently, I wanted to dual boot Arch and Windows 11, so I resized the partition from 100MB to 598MB (an ...
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windows and linux, both on different drives. Any performance issues?
I dual-booted windows and Linux, in a different way. The way I did it is by having both operating systems on different hard drives. I am able to switch back and forth as the Linux one is installed on ...
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Bootable USB doesn't show up when used normally in windows
I have a bootable USB with Gentoo Linux on it. My PC regularly uses windows. When I try to plug in my bootable USB to Windows like a normal USB, it doesn't show up in the files. It makes the normal ...
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Bootable device not being recognised by M1 mac
I am not sure if this is the right site but I'm very stuck.
I've been trying to get a bootable drive onto my mac for a while, and I finally installed windows onto a micro SD card with enough storage. ...
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Cant get to BIOS menu pages (Insydeh20 setup utility)
I have been trying to boot a USB pen with the gparted live, but it seems it is not detected. Most solutions that I found require me to access the BIOS setup where I should change the boot priorities ...
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Systemd boot menu not showing after Windows 11 22H2 version update
I built my PC to be able to start a Windows 11 partition alongside a Pop_os one. But yesterday, I decided to make the 22H2 windows 11 update, and since then, the systemd boot menu isn't showing ...
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Is there a way to reboot into other windows installation using cmd commands?
In the System Configuration(msconfig)'s booting tab, I have two Windows 10 Pro installed on the same device, so when I boot the PC it asks which OS to boot.
(Let's say os A is default while B is not.)
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