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So I got a Raspberry Pi, right? And I love using NOOBS because of how simple it is to pick between a variety of OS' on startup (ones that're already installed, of course). But I was wondering if there was a PC equivalent to this, as I boot 5 OS' on a kinda frequent basis (Win 10, Win 7, Parrot, Ubuntu, and Mint). I'd just like a GUI on startup that lets me pick between OS'. And as always, thanks for any help!

Hello everyone! I'm moving the operating system on my laptop using paragon drive copy. I was dual booting ubuntu and windows 10 and I deleted the ubuntu partitions. I had more than I could remember what where they for, I deleted swap and the ubuntu regular partition but I'm left with two 1000mb partition that appear as OEM reserved and I cant delete them in the windows tools. And When I turn on the pc I stil get some GRUB screen that just allows me to use commands, When I press escape it prompts me to the boot menu to choose the windows bootloader, how do I remove the linux partition and the GRUB(im guessing the reserved partitions have the grub thing). Also I copied perfectly with paragon my OS drive to the SSD and everything looks fine but the pc doesnt recognize the option to boot from the SSD. Even in the bios it knows it has an SSD because its listed but in the boot menu I just have the HDD option. I'm going to update the bios because it seems that its a little limited bios from lenovo but if you know something about this I appreciate any info or opinion!.

My laptop run on Windows 10 Pro. I tried Ubuntu on same hard drive and did the Dual Boot Windows 10 Pro-Ubuntu 19.10 run perfectly. I later tried Pop!OS and install it on the partition in which my Ubuntu 19.10 used to be. Now I got the problem. I can only get Pop!OS to run and the there is no more dual boot. Please help... it is urgent. Thank you,

Hi all. So here's what I'm trying to do - Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a laptop and a computer. On the computer I have an ISO for Ubuntu. I want to partition part of the HDD on the laptop to create a dual boot set up on the laptop for both Windows and Linux. How do I go about doing this? I've looked into Wubi but I want a full installation of Ubuntu on a partition. Preferably, It'd be cool if I could figure out how to install from the ISO file over the network (since I have no removable media available) but I'd have no idea how to go about doing that so if I have to, I'll just transfer the ISO over to the laptop via network and then do the rest. Although please, treat this like a project. I'm open to any and all suggestions no matter how creative!

So i have heard dual booting could cause some problems in the future. I wanted to delete it but i don't know if the dual boot will cause problems because i still like linux. On tutorials on how to remove dual boot i am dual booting with Wubi i noticed something weird. Everyone else goes to grub first but i go straight to Windows. I like dual booting with Linux but if i go straight to windows will i still encounter problems?

Hi, I'm planning to build a system that dual boots Win + Ubuntu. 1. Budget & Location Probably around $1200, in U.S. 2. Aim Dual booting Win + Ubuntu -- probably 2 SSD for file safety reasons. In windows, I play different kinds of games including League of Legends, Anno, Assassin Creeds, Total War. I also do some light photo/video editing. In Linux, I do coding projects / homework. I need to do some Open CVs / Deep Learning / Android Emulators etc. 3. Monitors I'm thinking about 2 screens right now, 1440p is probably enough for the things I'm doing. 4. Peripherals I only have a gaming mouse right now, I'm thinking about a speaker, a headset w/ microphone, and a mechanic keyboard. Based on that, I thinking that I should get this: CPU: R5-3600 GPU: RX5700 RAM: 2*8G SSD: 2 500g m.2 HDD: 2tb? and I'm just not sure what else. Thank!

I am planning to go dual boot, but my question is if dual booting Pop OS and Windows on the same drive would cause any errors, or any potential SSD screw up during a Windows update? Also, for content creation like 3D art, which is the best distro : Pop!_OS, Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora?

i have windows 10 for coding, ui&ux(adobe products) designs but for now i just realized internet surfing has some security addition software. the machine dose it also (bitdefender). i decide to move my workflows like coding and internet surfing to LINUX, not ui&ux. so the machine has need a dual boot fot this kind of spliting workflow. what can i do for this sutation can i go to dual boot or any other suggestion? (not affordable for mac). dose dual boot affects machine hardware?

hello i have a I5 3470 asus p8z77-pro (motherboard) and a radeon rx 560 and i was wondering if i can get macos on it, i don't think Mojave will work so I'm aiming for an older version like sierra of high sierra also i want to have macos on a separate drive and be able to still boot into windows pls help

I want to dual boot my new laptop a long with Windows 10. Which Linux distro would be a better option.. I use Linux just for programming stuff but not use it as a primary OS. (not entirely a beginner, I'm aware a bit) Thank you

Hello, I hope someone reading this might be able to steer me in the right direction of fixing my current issue. Thanks in advance, too! I have a Hackintosh with a GeForce GTX 680, which runs awesome and very fast on Steam Games. Recently, I've decided to install a boot of Win 10 - It's all running well - EXCEPT! The steam games are VERY VERY VERY Laggy, choppy, and so slow. Even the same games I've played on the mac. Now, I've already installed the web drivers for NVIDIA & CUDA. I'm just not sure what else to try - it's as if the games aren't running off my graphics card. Which is strange, because my GeForce Experience application says it's running.. ? Strange! Any bright ideas out there?

Out of my mind I wonder if a Malware or Virus can damage or affect other OS that has been install on a different drive/partition in the system. Is there a special case like the second OS is the same OS as the main one? What if Windows with Linux? or Windows with Windows?

Can someone please give the best guide on how to dual boot woth each and every step explained

Hey, I was wondering if making a Windows System Image saves the contents inside my Linux partitions? I know it'll save the partition (space allocated) but I'm unsure if it saves whatever is in there. My Linux filesystem is Ext4 and Windows (10) is in NTFS. Disk Management on Windows also shows my Linux partitions as 100% free space, but I do have content inside them. Thanks in advance for the help!

Aafter installing linux pc just boots into windows instead of running grub, tried making boot entries with easyBCD, but just get an error while booting off them. Anyone had same problems?

I need a new pc, but I need it to dual boot between Windows 10, and Mac OS. I need to be able to run animation software (Blender Animation and Maya), video editing software (probably iMovie, I am not a professional editor), and I needs to be able to game. All of the video editing and animation will be done on Mac OS, and all gaming will be done on Windows 10. My total budget is $1600. Does anyone have any good system ideas? Ask me questions if needed.

I want to dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu and windows. I'm quite worried that if this gaming performance on Windows. Suggest what to do!

When I boot my PC it goes strait to windows instead of going to the grub boot manger. I followed this video on how to dual boot Arch Linux and windows.

Hi everyone, I rarely post here but recently ran into an issue that I haven't be able to overcome and figured this would be a good place to ask the question. I recently started using Pop! OS as my go to Linux distro and its been a pretty good experience. I used ubuntu previously and I'm not sure what it is but Pop! OS has just been a bit better. So here's my issue: I recently installed Pop! OS on my laptop. Previously, my laptop was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10. I have an HP Spectre 15 inch from 2018. I was using grub as a boot loader. When I first installed Pop! I learned that it installed systemd as a boot loader instead. So I wasn't sure what was going to happen with grub being the boot loader. So when I installed it, it just added another boot loader I guess? I'm not an expert on how booting works so that's my assumption to what happened because I can still access the grub boot loader if i go into the bios and tell it to boot from grub (labeled as ubuntu). However, systemd boot loader does not recognize windows 10 or ubuntu as an operating system that I can boot too. For the sake of easiness I just instead added Pop! as an option to the grub boot loader. However, after the first time putting Pop! to sleep (suspend), I could not get back into Pop! through grub. So instead I went and booted Pop! through the bios. I since am just using systemd and I think I'd like to use systemd as my boot loader. Unless anyone has any strong opinions or reasons why I should use grub. I like the customization of grub but I love the simplicity of systemd. So I have a bunch of question. 1. How do I add windows boot to my list of options in systemd? Everything says it should have done it automagically but seems like it didn't happen for me. I found something about adding windows.conf to the entries folder in /boot/efi/loader/entries. And that file looks like this title Windows efi /EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi However, I copied that location from someone online. No idea where that file actually is in my computer. I assume it's in the windows boot partition but not sure how to get there during the boot process. I have a screen shot of my partitions below. Is this the right approach or am i totally off? 2. How do I do the same for Ubuntu? 3. How do I make sure when I suspend/sleep/hibernate my computer, it wakes up to the OS that it suspended from? How does the boot process work while suspended? 4. I disabled secure boot in order to install Pop! Is it worth going through the process to sign it my self so secure boot will work? I get mixed reviews about whether secure boot is actually useful or not. Seems like it'd be fine if I signed it myself. My real question is really how the boot process works. I'd like to understand what's going on. Seems like those files under /boot/efi are in my root partition. Does that mean when systemd boots, its using the Pop! OS root directory to figure out where all the boot files are? I figured during boot, it only loads boot partitions. Thanks for the help in advance. Appreciate it! -Espy

Hi everyone, I've an unique problem that I'd like to discuss. Today I bought a larger ssd and I tought I could clone the last one to avoid re installing windows, it didn't work and I had problems to install the fresh copy of the OS in the new ssd, I finally managed to solved it by plugging the old one and formating my new ssd from the os to gpt, it all worked fine, started to work in the os until I was done. So I turned off the system, umplugged the old one and tought I was done, when it turned on it didn't boot and showed the error mbr error 1. I tried the following : umplugged everything but the ssd, start up repair from the windows tool. I plugged the old one back in and set the order like this : 1st windows boot manager, 2nd the new ssd and it works. Can I repair the boot so I can unplug the old ssd which now is not nescesary? Or I'm done. Thank you!

I have a PC that supports Win7 and has had a Win 10 instalation for 4 years. I have 2 Sata SSD and an HDD all with loads of data. My plan is to buy a new drive and make a dual booting with Win7 and the Win10 I already have. Question is: can I use an M2 SSD for Win7 (there is room for it in my MotherBoard) and program the dual boot with a sataSSD (which has Win10) and said new m2 drive? Can I do it without altering (loosing data/having to reinstall all) my Win10 part? The final idea is to have a system with my i7 6700 and its HD 530 iGPU + the GTX 1060 I have installed and a new RX 550 so I have 2 OS, 3 graphic cards and I don't need 3 different PCs just to play all the games I have (Nvidia is too bad for old games and so is Windows 10, sometimes there is no workaround). Thanks!!

Since I've built my computer, I've been having RGB problems. My ram (G.Skill Trident Z) hasn't been controllable in over a year. It is no longer how I want it, the modules are out of sync and they annoy me to no end. My board RGB can at least be turned off via bios, and my GPU RGB can be turned off via OpenRGB. I really want to turn off the ram RGB. Asus Aura doesn't work (neither do the older versions), and G-skills own software doesn't detect the ram either, neither does OpenRGB. Anyway, to fix all that, I've tried everything within my current install, it's not going to happen. So now, I want to install a new fresh windows somehow besides my current install, simply for 1 reason: to turn off the ram RGB. I do not want to permanently reinstall windows. What is the best way for a secondary windows install? I want it to not affect my first install at all. For instance, I have a cache drive (leftover SSD) and a lot of partitions. Can I just install windows on a USB stick, run it once, install the RGB software, turn off the RGB, and be done? Or would that also leave traces on my main install (drives)? Or would it be a better idea to physically disconnect all drives before doing this? I have no experience with this. I hope someone here knows. Thanks!

I have a Zenbook Pro Duo, one of the laptops with the dual screens. I was thinking about the recent LTT video where he built the couples computer off one PC. I was wondering if that would be possible in this laptops form factor. Using that VM setup, couldn't you run on OS on the top screen and another on the bottom? Has anyone tried this? I would love to try it myself but I cannot afford the down time because I use my laptop for work.

I've decided to finally dual boot linux, rather than running it on just my laptops and in a VM. I cleared my SSD to 50% so I could give it a 64GB partition, but when I went to create the partition, it only let me make one up to 2 gigs. I thought maybe it was to due with where the files are and how fragmented my SSD was. I opened Defraggler and it's obviously a mess, I ran the optimize task to see if maybe that'll help, but it ended up just bringing my potential partition down to 0 mbs. Obviously you aren't supposed to Defragment your SSD, and even when I tried because, it shouldn't really cause much damage, it estimated 12 hours and kept growing. Anyone know of any ways around this or methods I could use to better fix this? It's an SSD, it's not like fragmenting it will really slow it down. But the datas all over the place I can't partition.

I have a HDD from a laptop that has Linux already installed on it (laptop 1). I'd like to pop that HDD into laptop 2 with an HDD caddy and dual boot to windows 10 (currently on laptop 2) and Ubuntu (currently on hdd from laptop 1). The problem I'm having is that I'm not sure how to get it so it asks which drive to boot into on startup (I think that's the grub 2 menu but I'm new to this) I CAN boot into the Ubuntu drive on my desktop pc if I disconnect the windows SSD before startup but if they're both connected, it just boots to windows. UFEI also only shows the windows SSD under boot options. The drive with Linux already has some files and projects on it that I'd rather not move anywhere which is why I don't want to do a fresh install of Linux on that drive once it's in laptop 2. Happy to hear any solutions! Thanks.