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I have 2 SSDs. On the first one Windows 10 is installed which is 256 GB. I am installing Ubuntu 20.04 on the other one which is 120 GB. I have done partitioning but where should I install boot loader ??

So I decided to re install windows back into my life, just for gaming and drawing. how ever this is the issue I ran into. My pc has a 250GB SanDisk SSD (Linux Mint), 1TG HDD (for storage) and I just integrated a NVMe for windows. my MOBO is Asus ROG B450-F I was able to use my Linux drive very normal, but once I install the NVMe the BIOS no longer sees the SanDisk SSD drive. I haven't even put Windows on the NVMe and the BIOS only sees the NVMe and the HDD. I am wondering if I am doing something wrong, or what configurations do I have to change. the part that throughs me off is that there is nothing on the NVMe and the MOBO just sees that and the HDD and once I remove the NVMe the pc sees my SanDisk SSD.

Last month, I needed to use my father's laptop to do online school. I realised some of the programs i need wasnt supported on windows 7. So I switch to Windows 10 but it was sooo slow, booting up will take 5mins and opening browser will somtimes even crash the pc. My little brother gave me this awesome idea to use linux, and i never regretted it all my programs run smoothly. But there was one issue I may have screwed up the deleting process of windows 10 every time i turn on my pc G-rub will show up and i would choose manjaro or windows7 but when i choose windows 7 there will be a blue screen and i have to press F9 boot to windows 7. This is extremely annoying and i want it gone. Thank you for reading this very messy text. U attached an image of the blue screen.

not sure if this should be here or under linux So does anyone know how to stop windows 10 20h2 update from automatically reading and adding linux partitions to " disk management ". or should i completely destroy my win10 installation and maybe look for something that they havent fully back-ended, if there is even such a possibility at this point? Im sure they thought they were being helpful, but without my express permission to have done this, or even notifying me in the first place that it was going to happen it shows a complete lack of care both legally and morally in what a computer owner WHOM owns his/her/they hardware might wish to do with it. other than just windows. How am I going to know if something is specifically working in a different OS, if windows could be backdooring the other OS to give it a leg up/ take control from behind the scenes (" fast start up" anyone) ? not to mention that fair and legal has now proven a breach of trust of which it no longer deserves any respect.

Does anyone know how i could setup a dual boot running Kodibuntu. Currently i am running Win10pro on a laptop, and i want to turn it into a TV box. Since its a, laptop it is running ONE SSD. How could i set up a dual boot, one running Win10 the other running kodibuntu?

Hi, as title states, I'm trying to discern whether or not the new Surface Laptop Go can dual-boot Linux. It's a fairly new machine so not much info is out there yet. Any input is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Hi I'm currently building my first pc and I'm drifting towards linux as my OS as I really enjoy learning about computers and think it'd be a fun thing for me to do plus it just seems better then windows. That being said even though I can see linux gaming has come a long way I still want that safety net of gaming on windows as I would know any game I wanted to play would work unlike with linux where it seems it would probably work. So my question is would you recommend dual booting or using a VM I'm only running one graphics card so I'm not sure of the logistics of using a VM and I would rather not take the performance hit of using one if it is substantial or noticeable. However dual booting seems like a pain and since windows would only be for gaming, it also doesn't seem as practical or fun. I think my 2tb hard drive would negate the storage limitations of partitioning drives but it is still a factor. Any opinions would be appreciated and sorry for the lack on conciseness. Thank you

I had a laptop Hdd which had windows 10 installed and i wanted to put it in my desktop and use it as 2nd os like dual boot. But when i connected it to my desktop (via SATA conenection), my first Hdd (also windows 10) boots and the laptop Hdd shows up in file manager with previos ones (Check attached image) I dont want to expand my storage and mix them. How to seperate them and setup a dual boot system with both os in these 2 Hdds's.?? The Drives After New Volume (E:) are all from laptop's Hdd and Local Disk (H:) is the drive where windows was installed on laptop.

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.

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

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!

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!

To make this short and simple: I want to dual boot PopOS but can't even install it. I'm currently running my win10 and if I set up all the partitions needed, I can't choose a boot partition. It will keep telling me that "EFI is not on GPT disk" Gonna be completely honest and admit I have no clue what to do and I don't understand most of the terms (native German PogChamp). So in the picture you can see my problem. Any advice appreciated as always. Thanks a lot. PS: Yes. I tried to choose another drive or partition and still doesn't work. And yes I am using the latest version.

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!!

laptop:- Acer helios 300 PH317-53 I was trying to set up a dual boot with linux and windows on seperate ssds I did these things before installing linux in bios RST disable (using ahci instead) Set BIOS supervisor password Secure boot disable enable F12 Windows boot mgr Then i proceeded to install manjaro with KDE and the installation was successful, but after that when i tried to access bios i just couldn't. There was just a "-" on the top left corner and nothing else wiping the linux ssd seems to solve the problem any help would be really appreciated :)

Hello All, I'm not a crazy computer wiz, I've built a couple PCs and fiddled around with some programming but nothing major. I just got a new laptop, a Razer Blade 15, but I want to use it for work and gaming. I wanted to partition the drive into two sections, one with about 150gb of space for work (I don't need a lot because most items are in the cloud or very small), and another drive with the rest of the storage for gaming. When I boot up my laptop I want to be presented with the option to choose the gaming partition, or the work partition. Is this possible and can anyone point me in the right direction or let me know how to do this? It would be very much appreciated.

Hello! I want to get familiar with Linux. On my PC I have 1 SSD (with Windows) and 2 HDDs, but they are mostly full, so I took 2.5 HDD from my old laptop and tried to install Linux Mint on it. It is 4th drive in my PC. I want to have dual boot (Win/Mint), and I was wondering is dual boot possible if operating systems are on different drives? I already tried to install it, but I ran into few problems: Mint didn't recognize that I already had Windows installed, so I couldn't install it on my SSD even if I wanted to. I'm not sure what type should my HDD be? I read it should be ext4, but want to be sure. I tried to install it on 2.5 HDD, even thought it didn't give me the option to have dual boot, I just wanted to install it. I went through the whole process of installation and after that it just said that installation wasn't successful. What am I doing wrong? What can I do about dual boot to make it show in options? My system is: i5 6400, RX460 and Gigabyte H170M-D3H-CF. Any help will be much appreciated!

Hey everyone. I am trying to install kali linux on my pc with windows 10 on the side. My PC is HP Gaming PC 1TB HDD which is GPT with 16GB Optane Drive. I have created 100GB Partition to install kali, but the partitions are not showing. Any Suggestions?

Hi Guys, I'm having a problem when Dual Booting a Linux distro in my laptop.. I'm getting an error which is "Unable to Install Grub In Dev/sda (the partition. I chose to install grub) how to Dual boot kde neon correctly. I'm a beginner, please explain it very easily.... And if I set a efi partition and install boot loader into that partition it also gives me an error.. it is "failed to install grub-amd64" ... Please help me...

Hey guys just built my first pc. my system has ryzen 3 2200g with integrated radeon graphics asus a320i-k prime itx motherboard 16GB cosair vengence DDR4 ram timings set to 15-15-15-36. m.2 nvme 256GB(will update storage in future) silver stone 500W 80+Gold. PC is mainly for gaming but i will throw in other work loads like CAD projects or streaming. I have partitioned my m.2 for 30gb for windows 10 and 32gb for linux with the rest to be shared access between the two OS.... at least that was the plan. I have windows 10 successfully on its portion. but i am having trouble figuring out how to get ubuntu onto its portion of the m.2. ive been reading up on how do dual boot but its over my head. would appreciate any advise or guide to help me get this done.

I recently ran i to a situation where my primary drive suddenly wouldn't boot, and I ended up replacing the drive and reinstalling Mint successfully. FWIW, the previous disk is fully functional when I mount it as a USB drive, but still couldn't boot from it. Now that I have a bit of time, I'd like to treat this as a learning experience regarding how grub/efi and dual boot w/Windows actually worked on my previous install, but I'm struggling to understand the nuts and bolts. Would anyone be willing to spend some time with me walking through my previous config to see (a) how the whole config was set up and working, (b) what broke and how to fix it?, and (c) how to add my windows boot back into the new setup. Anyone will to spend a little time pointing me in the right direction(s)? The previous issue is documented here:

Im trying to set up a need boot drive on my pc i have a new ssd with a fresh windows 10 install that i can boot from and i can see my other drives but im not sure how to access my stuff or inport my desktop.

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 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!