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Hi all, Edit: the issue seems to be more fundamental. I can get into BIOS, and I opened hardware monitor to look at my CPU temps and after being there for a while I wanted to close it and my BIOS froze. Rest of the story provides context on how I got to this situation... I'm slightly panicking here. I had a good working setup with just Windows 11 (pro) installed (upgraded from Windows 10 pro) on my newly build machine (tech specs will follow). I installed Ubuntu as dual boot in a separate partition on the same SSD as my windows is located. It booted into MOK (I had secure boot set up) but I had issues with that so I passed it. It booted fine a couple of times when so I performed the necessary updates but after that it the problems started. I reboot into ubuntu and at the login screen it works fine, but trying to login in or open a different tty (ctrl+alt+f2 e.g.) it froze again (not getting into the desktop at all when logging in or not even reaching the tty). I tried rebooting into windows and I'm getting a different BSOD every time. Trying to boot into Windows recovery mode works, but when opening CMD I'm getting different BSODs as well. Couple I've had were: - IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL in ntoskrnl.exe - MEMORY_MANAGEMENT when trying to run DISM in cmd in recovery And a couple more but didn't have time to take a picture because my pc rebooted immediately. I tried swapping the boot order back hoping that was the cause, but then my BIOS froze... I don't understand how to get the dump files in this situation since booting from my Windows 10 install USB is freezing as well on the windows logo. My BIOS is on E7E26AMS.150 (just the version with which it shipped) and I see on the MSI page that there is a BIOS update available. But honestly, with my BIOS freezing I'm really afraid to start flashing a new version on it... what If it happens during the update? OS - Windows 11 + Ubuntu 22.04 dual boot x86 (32-bit) (i think I'm sorry I'm not sure) What OS was originaly installed on the system? Windows 11 pro retail Is the OS an OEM version (came pre-installed on system) or full retail version (YOU purchased it from a retailer)? purchased from retailer Age of system (hardware) less than a month Age of OS installation - have you re-installed the OS? less than a month CPU model AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Boxed Video Card model ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming 20GB OC MotherBoard - (if NOT a laptop) B650 GAMING PLUS WIFI (MS-7E26) Power Supply - brand & wattage (if laptop, skip this) Seasonic Focus GX-750 System Manufacturer what? Laptop or Desktop? Desktop Is there anyone able to help me? Things I tried: tried going into Ubuntu advanced, pick the older version in recovery but after browsing in the settings for a while it crashes and spews out this enormous log (see attached picture). tried booting into my Ubuntu boot USB but that freezes at boot logo tried booting into my Windows 10 pro USB but that freezes at boot logo

Before i had ubuntu on my hdd and win 10 on ssd later i upgraded (i just deleted the partition of ubuntu (it was dumb)) to win 10 on ssd and win 11 on hdd I didnt use win 10 for a while but i was fed up with slow win11 on hdd. So in the bios i moved the m.2 drive up (the m.2 drive is just blank, no bootloaders i guess?) then it booted into win 11, when i removed hdd from the boot it just said no os found. i think my bootloader is on hdd. I still have the problem of grub being still on there.

i want to install linux mint on my pc with windows 10. I want linux to be on a partition on my hard drive without losing any data on the hdd, is there any way to install it through windows with some ext4 software? there no where else i can keep that data there is no space on my ssd and my internet is not good enough to handle 500gb of data.

Ok so I decided to dual boot my windows 7 desktop, I setup the partition and everything. Then I installed service pack 3 of windows xp pro into the new partition I made, once I was in the setup stage I saw everything was going well. But then I had to put In a registry key and the cd I had didnt have one so I used a different registration key. Once It booted everything looked good so I rebooted and pressed F8, This is when things turned for the worst. I saw a windows xp bios, not my pc manufacturers bios, Im panicking the windows 7 install is still there its just I cant boot to it in the bios. PLEASE HELP ME

So I've decided that I won't be re-installing Windows 10 on my computer unless I encounter a program that absolutely will not run natively or on Wine. So if I do end up needing to install windows, what troubles should I be aware of?

Hi. So here's my predicament. I recently installed EndeavourOS on a small, 37 GB partition on my main drive, an M.2, with Windows. My motherboard(Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming Motherboard) has two M.2 slots, and I recently purchased a second M.2 to install EndeavourOS on. I now need to delete the existing installation of EndeavourOS off my PC, and then reinstall it on the new M.2. This obviously can be done by simply deleting the partition in Disk Management in Windows, but is there anything else required? Such as deleting a possible Linux bootloader? Or can I simply delete the partition, then install EndeavourOS freshly?

I just got a new SSD for my PC, which is holding my dual-boot systems, Windows 10 Pro(First, Work and Manjaro Linux(Second, testing projects). Now the installation was easy and effortless and I am able to access both OS'es without any problem. Even the Diagnostic software for the drive says everything is perfect. But, every time I go to boot up into windows, the splash screen says that it's going to scan the drive in 10 seconds unless I press a key. I never had a problem with a dual boot system before, and it's only Windows 10 that's reporting there is an error with the drive each time I boot in Win 10. Is there any way to fix this?

Hello! I have an Acer Predator Helios 300 (Model name: Predator PH315-52). When I purchased the machine it had a single NVME M.2 SSD (256 GB) in it which had windows 10 installed on it. I quickly bought a SATA SSHD (2 TB) for my Steam Games etc. That was about a year ago, and even then I was messing around with dual-booting windows 10 with Linux. However I could only install Linux on my SATA drive and the NVME drive wouldn't even show up. Back then I was quite happy about this because it meant that I couldn't accidentally delete Windows while messing around. But it was slow so I recently bought another NVME SSD (1 TB) that I wanted to dedicate to Linux (So now I had 3 drives installed). I installed Linux on it and it worked for about a week but then I realized my BIOS was no longer accessible meaning that when I went to smash F2 on startup I would just get a black screen and a DOS like cursor that wasn't even blinking in the top left corner of my screen (the F12 Boot menu was still working), I updated my BIOS (with official software from Acers website) which resolved this issue. After that I tried booting my old Linux install and nothing happened so I tried to reinstall it but now my secondary SSD is also completely gone (Only from the secondary OS, Windows and my BIOS sees it just fine and I can write to it in windows as well). From what I have gathered on the Internet this issue has something to do with Intel's RST (Rapid Storage Technology) however I have no Idea how to circumvent this issue. Any help appreciated, Cheers!

Hello all, I was trying to set up a triple boot system (Windows 10, Linux Mint, Remix OS) as an upgrade from the current dual-boot system I run. I'm aware that an MBR partition table can only have 4 primary partitions; however, I have somehow accidentally created 5... Should I be concerned that this might corrupt my files on this drive? There's no problems with files so far, but I am worried that they might appear in the future. It does appear to have caused an issue elsewhere though. When booting the computer, I get an error which says 'Unknown Filesystem', and I am sent into GRUB rescue mode. This is what I am typing into the rescue mode command line to make the computer boot: >set boot=(hd0,msdos6) >set prefix=(hd0,msdos6)/boot/grub >insmod normal >normal After entering the last line above, the computer then shows the normal GRUB menu, and I can choose to boot into either Windows or Mint (I haven't set Remix up yet due to this issue) I was wondering if there was a permanent fix to this issue, so that the GRUB menu would show up straight away as normal? Finally, is it safe to delete the 5th partition which has caused the issue, or will editing the partitions further cause more issues? Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hello! I've just installed Windows on by new build and want to dual-boot with Kubuntu 17.04. I've actually installed this exact combination on two other computers before, but this time I have a 240GB SSD that I'd like to use for booting and commonly used apps. I've already partitioned it so that there's about 75GB unallocated space left. What is the best way to manage the partitions? I usually just set up swap, "/", and "/home". I was thinking of putting "/" on the SSD and "/home" on the 1TB hard drive; will this let Kubuntu boot up quickly like Windows does? Also, I've never specified a "/boot" partition before. Is that necessary for this kind of a setup? I'm somewhat of a beginner at this so forgive me if any of these questions don't make sense ... Thanks in advance!

Are they completely separate? I am planning to dual-boot a second copy of Windows 10 on another hardrive.

I'm getting a new laptop soon, to replace my work computer, my gaming laptop, and my home workstation. I travel for work, and I'm out on the road every week. Linux use scenarios: * Fedora 26 ( I'm a rhel consultant) * minishift, * docker, * the new ansible tower running * various vm's to simulate client enviorments. * LUKS partition for encryption Windows: * Windows 10 * Overwatch * Destiny 2 * Various other games at night What is the best way to split up the partitions and drives. I'll have 1 TB M.2 SSD as the main drive to boot off of, and a 1 TB traditional spinning drive, and 32 GB of RAM. So for the m.2 I'm thinking of splitting to windows 60/40 of the drive. to 600GB, and 400 for Linux, 40gb of that being swap. Though I'm familiar with installing both OS's, this will be my second time installing fedora with LUKS for encryption, and not sure how much space to set aside for it. As for the HDD, I was planning on using it to store media and other files, possibly in a file format both windows and linux can read. Either that, or doing a split for it as well to install media, and games that I choose not to put on the m.2. Any suggestions or useful tips would be appreciated.

So I got 3 drives on my computer Drive 1 - NVMe 500GB ( Boot + OS ) Drive 2- HDD 3TB ( all files ex: games, vids, pics, etc ... ) Drive 3- HDD 2TB ( This drive still unallocated ) My Windows 10 is installed on Drive 1, all my games and files are on Drive 2 and I recently bought Drive 3 which I plan installing Ubuntu on. But I came to wonder if that would cause any troubles when Dual Booting or when removing Ubuntu. So I came here to get some advices and tips to make it easier to install, uninstall and things to do and not to do. All help will be very appreciated, thank you.

Hi everyone, I've recently wondered about trying out Linux but don't have a lot of prior experience the closest I've really come to Linux was setting up a basic server on raspberry PI along time ago, I am choosing to use a KDE based manjaro distro for my initial introduction into Linux but I don't want to replace my windows install just in case I'm in other my head and need my windows install back, I tried to dual boot with Linux mint before and I messed it up so the Initial boot menu didn't offer anything so I basically bricked my PC (Noob mistake), One thing that I would really like to do is run both at the same time allowing me to live swap between Linux and windows I have a memory of someone showing me a mac running windows that could swap between mac os and windows on the fly, Is this possible with Linux manjaro and windows 10? I have 8GB of ram and an 8 Core at my disposal for this, If not whats the best boot loader that isn't gonna brick my PC. Another thing I have an SSD and an unused 2TB HDD in my PC and I've heard that windows and Linux can cause conflicts when present on the same DISK, Is there any truth to this or is this just a myth? Thanks for any input in advance ~LazyChaz

Hi i was trying to dual boot manjaro and win10 but i culd't find a way so I don't now what to do (i created swap partiton)

To keep things short, here is a bit of backstory, what i did and what the problem is currently: Couple months ago, i installed Linux alongside Windows 10. OS that i chose was Elementary OS 5.1 (Based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS... i think) While installing it, when it asked me if i wanted to keep my old OS (Win 10), i just allocated 100GB to Linux and let it do all the partition management and dual-boot GRUB stuff. Everything was working fine, but after ~1-2 weeks, i couldn't boot back in to Windows, each time i would see the Windows logo for a couple of sec and then it would throw a BSOD which would say "Memory Management"... and nothing else... it couldn't even boot in to its own Automatic Repair thingy... While searching around, I couldn't find anything helpful, everything included me booting in to windows, either normally of in Safe Mode... which i couldn't do... Other stuff included checking the RAM sticks, resenting them, testing one by one but that didn't help... I'm more of a software guy than hardware, but i don't think that its something with the physical RAM sticks being damaged or something like that... Linux is still working fine... I thought it might be a corrupt Windows install or maybe GRUB had a wrong config for booting Windows, so i tried to re-install Windows or boot in to the USB and check what is going on Even booting from a USB in to the Windows Installed would crash it, same BSOD. In short, here is what i tried so far: - Tried booting from a USB (To reinstall Windows, got the same BSOD) - Tried resenting and changing RAM ... and a short summary: - I can't boot in to Windows, at all, no matter from where i boot from, same error... - Linux is working fine - RAM is fine... (i'm guessing, i hope) I have full access to the disk from Linux so i would have no problem recovering files, managing partitions etc. but i would still like to know if there is a way to recover the current install.

I am going to try and dual-boot Windows 10 and MacOS Mojave (This isn't on a Mac). Does the installer wipe the disk, removing Windows and installing Windows after mac OS?

As the title suggests, I plan to dual boot mx linux and windows by installing them on two different ssd's. I don't want to mess around with bootloaders or anything like that as I don't plan to switch between os' very frequently (only when I need to run a windows program). I already have windows installed. Can I simply disconnect the windows ssd and connect a blank ssd to install mx linux before reconnecting the windows ssd and changing the boot order in the bios so the mx linux one is first? Many thanks

I'm looking to build my own RAID array so I wanna know some things before I give it a shot. I know about different RAID types like RAID 0, 1, 5 and 6. I know that there is software and hardware RAID and I prefer the latter. I am also looking to make a Windows/Linux dual-boot system so I want to know if RAIDs are cross-platform. If I create a RAID array in either, could I still access it in the other?

Hi, I previously had Windows 10 dual-boot with Ubuntu and Fedora and I wanted to remove all of them and only have Windows. I deleted the partitions I made for them but forgot to remove GRUB first. So I deleted the boot directories in the EFI with cmd by following this article Uninstall GRUB and use Windows bootloader. But Ubuntu and Fedora still appeared in the boot menu. So I installed fedora again. But now I have two Fedora's and one Ubuntu in the boot menu. If I click on the old installations, my PC doesn't boot and goes back to the boot menu. The previous boot directories were removed and I only have the newly installed Fedora now. So how can I remove the rest ones and only have Windows boot manager and the newly installed Fedora in the boot menu?

Was wondering if anyone knows of a guide or has successfully dual booted from a striped RAID 0 SSD array and a regular mechanical disk. I'm sure this is possible. My thoughts were a mounted boot drive with grub but grub just points to the two operating system, one within the RAID 0 and the other within a mechanical drive. Anyone have success with this? The stripe is my windows install, the linux install would be from the mechanical help. No need for a full guide, just wondering if anyone has any useful links.

I have a Dell Inspiron 7460. I'm planning to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. I had done a dual boot earlier but then I blew up my motherboard and hard disk so I have to do it again. My laptop went through a lot and these are the top 2 reasons how my hardware could have got damaged. 1. Survived a walk through light rainfall (laptop worked perfectly for a week, then my charger stopped working). 2. Was powered up by a 45W charger instead of 65W at high load (i bought a 45W replacement instead of 65W). Then the motherboard and hard disk blew up. But I have an even dumber question. Can dual boot cause hardware damage in any way?

Hi everyone. It might sound stupid, but I'd like to clear some things before I buy a second hard drive for the RAID setup. I was wondering if it is possible to create a RAID0 from 2 HDD's and then share it between 2 separate OS. If it is possible, will I still get the benefits of RAID0(better performance) on both OS? I really like Linux for its low system footprint and security, but I also game a lot, so I need Win10. I used to have a dual boot config, which gives the best from both worlds, but that was a long time ago. The current system has one 250Gb SSD and 1Tb HDD. I want to install 2 OS to the SSD to get the best performance out of it and create RAID0 with two 1Tb HDDs for media, games and general storage. I want to split the virtual RAID drive into 2 partitions(NTFS and ext4) so that both systems can benefit from the RAID. Will this monstrosity actually work? Is it worth it? Thanks for the advice in advance.

I am using Linux Mint on a dual-boot system with Windows. While installing Mint that way, I wasn't able to encrypt it - the option was blocked out if I'm installing it together with another OS. So I've been looking into ways to fully encrypt my Linux OS post-install but so far, all the solutions I've found involve creating a brand new partition to encrypt which you then mount to access. I'm looking to encrypt the actual Linux installation the same way you'd encrypt a Windows partition with software like Veracrypt. Help, anyone? Thanks.

Now that I have my dual boot system setup properly on my Work PC, I want to uninstall it from my Home PC, as I'll no longer need it on there. Windows 10 Pro is installed on my SSD and Ubuntu has it's own partition on a secondary HDD. So, how do I uninstall Ubuntu system and keep Windows 10 installed?