Questions tagged [dualboot]
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How to enable BitLocker when booting Windows 10 from a non-Microsoft boot manager?
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I have ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 laptop and want it to dual boot Linux and Windows 10. For that I want to use a boot manager supporting both Linux and Windows; currently I'm using rEFInd. I also want ...
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Windows 11 TPM dual boot
Does the fact that Windows 11 requires TPM and Secure Boot mean that we can no longer have a dual boot setup with let say Linux for example?
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How does UEFI decide whoch efi file to boot into?
Is there like a default EFI file setting or something. I have a disk drive with Linux on it, and multiple efi files. My computer cant boot into it.I have another disk drive with windows and multiple ...
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Do I have to make a partition before installing dual-boot Ubuntu?
I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 10. On the guides I have seen online, people generally make a disk partition prior to installation. Then on the installation screen when they are asked ...
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How can I safely disable Intel RST?
I want to dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. But I can't do it because I have Intel RST on. So how can I turn it off without causing any harm to system? I have Lenovo IdeaPad laptop, which has one ...
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How to DUPLICATE a dual boot SSD (to a larger SSD)?
I've finally got my system EXACTLY the way I want it.
MacBook 2012 - internal 500GB SSD running Mojave and Windows 7 (nothing to do with "bootcamp", just a separate bootable partition - I ...
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Cloned Windows 10 hangs in black screen with cursor
I cloned Windows 10 from a HDD Partiton into an SSD Partition. The SSD has 2 Partitions: one (1st) is Windows 7 (manually installed) and the other is the cloned Windows 10 from previous HDD. I created ...
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How to access WSL files from an Ubuntu Dual Boot?
I have a dual boot set up with two separate hard drives: one for Windows and one for Linux. I also use WSL for light development work. I want to know if it is possible for me to access the WSL files ...
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how to install pop!_os alongside windows
I would like to install pop!_os (basically a reskin of Ubuntu with some convenience features added) alongside windows 10. So far, I have installed windows 10, using about half the space on my ssd and ...
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Does booting work in pairs like BIOS/MBR, UEFI/GPT?
Disk 0 - It is a HDD. It's partition style is Master boot record. (MBR) It's the disk in which I wanna install Linux and dual boot.
Disk 1 - It is a SSD. It's partition style is GUID partition table. (...
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Switch between dual boot systems
I'm configuring a PC with Windows 10 and Windows 7 dual boot. This PC is shared among some users that some of them need Windows 10 and some of them need Windows 7.
The users are not expert and having ...
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Will disabled secure boot put at risk my pc?
I'm having Windows 10 and Linux on dual boot on my PC. I'm using Linux all the time but now I want to play something that runs only on Windows 10.
The secure boot on my PC is disabled.
On Windows I've ...
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Which partitions should I delete after removing Ubuntu?
My laptop has two disks: Disk 0 is SSD (Windows) and Disk 1 is HDD (Data).
Then I created a partition (Partition 16 in the picture) to install Ubuntu in Disk 2.
A few days ago, I wanted to remove ...
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BCDEdit - How to set device partition to a number (not c:)
I would like to add a new entry to my Windows bootmgr, which on another partition (5th one). What should I write after device partition=... to load the 5th partition?
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Will restoring Windows 10 from restore image destroy Linux ext4 partitions?
Reinstalling various Linux systems I have affected the efi partition that was used by all systems of the same drive, including Windows.
Restoring Windows from a restore point doesn't work but I have a ...
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Dual Boot Windows and Linux on separate physical drives
I have a UEFI-based system. I want to have a Windows–Fedora dual-boot configuration such that both systems are isolated from each other. Here is what I mean by the term isolation:
Both systems should ...
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(Legion-7-16IAX7) No Sound Dual boot Win 11 pro & Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (TAS2781 and Realtek ) Update (Cirrus)
There is no output on the speakers even after upgrading to kernel 6.5.0 on ubuntu lts 22.04.
I searched the internet and found some links regarding the issue. But I can't seem to figure out what to do ...
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Trying to dual boot Linux using an SD card
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I am trying to dual boot with windows and linux on my Laptop. My laptop has a built in sd card reader, however there are no options or methods through bios or other services that would allow ...
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Ubuntu boots, Windows doesn't on New PC with old SSD
I installed a new motherboard, cpu and ram but unfortunately my Windows won't boot.
I have dual boot - Elementary OS and Windows 10. Elementary works just fine, but when I select Windows in the boot ...
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How can I convert my partition from GPT to MBR and make my system dual boot Kali and Windows?
I want someone to help me how to install Kali on my laptop and want to know how to convert a GPT partition to MBR.
I searched on YouTube but most of the popular tutorials didn’t work. Even after ...
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Bluetooth stops working after some time Ubuntu 20.04.01 LTS
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 330-15arr. I have Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS installed on the same SSD and I use grub2 for dualboot. My problem is that whenever I boot over from Windows, bluetooth works, ...
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Error : no such partition, entering in grub rescue mode
I am using Windows 10 and Ubuntu in my laptop. My windows was getting updated and during that process it was restarting several times. While restarting 2nd/3 rd time grub ran into problem. I am ...
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In a Win8-Win7 dual boot, can Win7 boot from D:?
The system is dual booted. First partition on the SSD contains Windows 8.1 and the second partition holds Windows 7 Pro. Both were rescued from previous machines/disks which were, in various ways, ...
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Windows 10 Ubuntu 18.04 dual boot. Windows not shutting down properly
The problem occurs, when I boot into Ubuntu, shut Ubuntu down, boot into Windows, and shut Windows down. Then, it will not shut down as described by many other people. If I then turn off the machine ...
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Cannot boot ubuntu after installing windows 10
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In the BIOS settings, there was an option to "enable EFI file as safe" or something. It was greyed out so I set a BIOS admin password to unlock it. I then clicked it, selected HD0 -> grubx....
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Unable to setup dual boot Fedora with Windows 10
I was trying to set up dual boot Fedora 31 with windows 10 on my Asus TUF laptop. But as soon as fedora starts booting up it powers off as it displays some startup logs and then suddenly initiates ...
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Computer not booting after installing Ubuntu next to Windows
I installed Ubuntu 22.04 alongside an existing Windows 10 installation on a HP ProBook 470 G2 and let the Ubuntu installer take care of shrinking the Windows partition and rewriting the partition ...
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Dual booting Linux and Windows - which filesystem should I choose?
I want to have Linux on my SSD 250GB disk and two partitions on HDD (250GB for Windows and 750GB for data). And I would like to have access to this data when I am using Linux (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) and ...
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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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What will be the best to increase the speed of the computer i.e. RAM should be increased or SSD should be installed in the computer [closed]
I have Dell,i5 laptop 7th generation windows and I am a android developer and we know android studio requires a lot of memory. So, to increase the working speed of my computer what should be done. I ...
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Which one should I install first, windows or Ubuntu when Installing dual boot operating system?
I have tried 2 different ways to install dual boot operating system, and both worked.
Although, I don't know which one should I install first, windows or Ubuntu. what is the consideration?
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How to use Windows 10 graphical bootloader instead of grub?
First of all I own a Lenovo with a Core2Duo CPU. It had Windows 7 preinstalled in it and later I installed Windows 10.
Whenever I boot, I come across a Windows 10 graphical bootloader.
Now I want to ...
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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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How to convert Un-allocated space to free space in windows 10?
I have two disk.
disk 0 (Hdd 1Tb)
disk 1 (Ssd 240 Gb)
I am making dual boot by installing ubuntu. I followed this normal guide of dual booting.
I created un-allocated space of 60 GB in disk 1 for ...
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Will a Windows 10 installation on a seperate drive cause it to overwrite GRUB?
I have an Ubuntu system (UEFI) and I want to run a Win 10 installation on a separate disk. My goal is to switch between operating systems by changing the boot order of disks from BIOS.
However, I'm ...
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From dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 to clean Windows 10
I had Dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 on my machine. Then, wanted to make the computer like factory new and did some work around the partitions including deleting the one with Ubuntu content. This ...
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Does using different kernel versions (dual boot) containing different versions of btrfs with the same btrfs filesystem cause problems?
Didn't find any answer in the official wiki: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ
Why would I want to do that?
I want to try another distro along side my currently installed distro.
Where's the ...
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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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Moving a (suspected) grub partition safety when resizing partitions
I am trying to allocate more space to a windows partition by shrinking a linux partition on the same drive, but there is an EFI partition in between the linux and window partitions. This is a picture ...
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Dual boot Endeavor OS changed to EFI hard drive after BIOS update
I dual booted windows 11 and Endeavor OS on my HP notebook without any problem, but after a BIOS update the Boot options menu listed Endeavour os as EFI hard drive.
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Also now the ...
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Deleting system-reserved Partition on second drive in order to convert from MBR to GPT
I want to dual boot Windows and Arch Linux on my machine. So I bought a new SSD, which should only contain the linux installation. However in order to achieve this, I have to convert from Legacy Bios ...
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Dual Boot Lubuntu Windows 10 Only Windows 10 Loading
it's the first time I encounter this issue. I have several other computers on which I have two OS and I had never had to do anything to have a bootloader where I can choose which one I want to start.
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Can't access Linux (Manjaro) after Windows update
My Windows decided to update today.
After it finished I couldn't get anymore into my Manjaro.
I can't access the GRUB Bootloader OR the System Setup Menu (F2).
Simply put, when I restart my PC (Asus ...
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Can't install Windows Server 2016 due to error: Could not open Root directory: [14] Not Found
I am trying to install Windows Server 2016. I have used Rufus to create a bootable USB, but when I try and boot from the USB, it gives me the following error: Could not open Root directory: [14] Not ...
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Windows 10 (UEFI) does not boot from grub [dual boot] after Ubuntu upgrade
I had Windows 10 and Ubuntu which were working without any issues until I upgraded from Ubuntu 19.04 to 19.10. Now I cannot access Windows from the options in the grub menu. Nothing happens when I ...
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Linux cannot see other hard drive after dual boot, also want to remove windows if possible
I wanted to switch to Linux and I did this by installing Kali onto my usb and and then booting from my usb. It then went through the process of installing on one of my two SSDs, it then installs fine ...
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Moving Windows from dual-boot to a separate disk
I have a Windows/Linux dual-boot system on a 1TB SSD.
I want to move my Windows to a separate (256 GB) SSD and keep Linux on the 1TB SSD.
I've found several articles explaining how to move entire ...
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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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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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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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