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Instead of having to constantly reboot your machine(if you are doing a dualboot and more stuff) why not just run the two OSes at the same time? In theory it does not sound complicated you just have to "virtualize/schedule the resources" for each OS so they don't clash. What is stopping this from being possible? And in terms of switching the OS it should be a simple thing like having a active OS changer like a bootloader but a menu for you to change your OS without having to restart etc. something like "Alt-tabbing" if that makes sense. Essentially all the hardware is running on the "Active bootloader" and it divides up and schedules the resources evenly or depending on the user preferences. This is not exactly virtualization since that would be a big performance hit but it's more like a scheduler/bootloader in a way. Sorry if this explanation is not so clear since its just an idea... P.S: this sounds like a VM but without all the hassle and performance loss and more. So it's basically or sorta trying to replace the concept of virtualization entirely. P.S.S: This is more like contanierzation like docker and a virtualization hybrid but in a more seamless way, almost like switching apps... P.S.S.S: This would also be easier to do if both OSes could support the same drivers to prevent rebooting of the machine. From a security standpoint sandboxing is also essential here to prevent cross OS-malware-attacks. -
I have 2 Boot drives in my system. seegate HDD and a Samsung Sata SSD. One win10. other win 11. is it ok to disable the other drive in the device manager.? i just don't want to able to access other boot drive from the drive I am booted into.
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This is a very random and specific question, but what is the easiest way to capture an image of a dual-booted machine? I've consider WinPE but handling partitions for two different OS's with different file systems seems challenging at best.
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I have Windows 10 Pro running on my SSD and I booted a Pen-drive with Windows 10 Home. I don't want Windows 10 home to access other drives on my PC. Is there any way to block access to other drives without unplugging the drives physically? -
Specs Asus TUF B550M-plus Wifi (BIOS 1602) Amd 5600x Nvidia 3070 Corsair TX650M Windows 10 Home - 64bit / Windows 7 Premium - 64-bit (Dualboot) Problem When starting Windows 7, computer hangs at 'Starting Windows' (just before the balls come together to make the windows logo) and needs hard reboot. Happens every time. Unable to access OS Cause (Seems to be) Installing Nvidia 3070 drivers (designed for Win7-64bit) in Windows 7. Problem occured directly after installing drivers and rebooting. Other Windows 10 all working perfectly - only problems are with Win7 Thought problem might be because I haven't installed any chipset drivers for my mboard, but afaik there are no chipset drivers for Win7 for this board. Tried installing the Win10 LAN drivers (as no internet even through Ethernet) and somehow corrupted the winload.efi..? Had to do an entire reinstall of Win7 to fix Had to sideload USB drivers to get Win7 installation. Used a program called 7UPv57 from this link SecureBoot is disabled. Was able to boot into Windows 7 before installing the driver. Why? Trying to run a 2005 game that uses Safedisk DRM. Security update means it doesn't work on Win10. No noCD patch that works, so can't bypass DRM that way. Tried disabling Safedsc.sys driver/bypass digital signing etc. in Win10. No luck. Tried VM. 5600x isn't an APU, using an mATX board so no 2nd PCI_E, so no way to have GPU passthrough Solution Copious amounts of alcohol Failing that - get Windows 7 to load with GPU drivers installed/an alternate way of running a game with Safedisk DRM. -
This occurs regardless of which one I choose, and regardless of what command line options I place on the linux command. What could be causing this? -
Specs: GA401QC/5800HS/3050/8gb/1tb NVME/14 inch/MTK MT7921 I was planning to dual boot Win11 and Manjaro, so I upgraded the OOTB Win10 to 11, made a 200 gb partition on the 1tb nvme for Manjaro KDE and installed it. All of this went smoothly. I had my wifi added and connected in windows previously, using the MyAsus latest drivers and it worked well in windows 11. I connected to the wifi in Manjaro, and it connected too. Then I rebooted into windows and the wifi wasn't showing up in the windows control center. Then it randomly bluescreened so i rebooted and then i checked device manager and the wifi adapter showed up to be malfunctioning. I downloaded the wifi driver for win11 from the ga401qc support page and installed it. first time, the installer told me to reboot, then while rebooting my keyboard backlight was on, my display was off, my logitech g102 light was off (which meant the windows kernel probably didnt load). then i force rebooted the machine and installed the driver again, this time successfully. now its installed and working in windows but im scared to boot into linux. is this a well known issue that i didnt find while searching or what
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Hello there! I want to dual boot Windows 10 with 7 (10 being already preinstalled) but every time I get to the Starting Windows screen with the glowing Windows 7 logo in setup it stops there, I searched how to fix this and it turns out I have to put in the BIOS boot mode from UEFI to Legacy, if I do that will my data and partitions be deleted, will Windows 10 still work? (And YES I know that Windows 7 is old and it dosen't get security updates anymore, I am planning to install Bitdefender on Windows 7 + some other security extensions for browsers. )
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I would like to try out Linux, specifically Pop!_OS, but I can't abandon Windows just yet, so I'm trying to install Linux on a separate hard drive. I have disabled fast startup in Windows and I believe secure boot is disabled in my BIOS (although my Asus motherboard makes it hard to know for sure because there isn't an option to just turn it off; I had to follow a guide). Anyway, when I boot from my USB stick I get this message: "Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom//casper_pop-os_20.10_amd64_intel_debug_24/filesystem.squashfs) on /filesystem.squashfs". I do not have an Nvidia GPU. -
I was installing PrimeOS(android os) and it came with a installer after installation the system restarted and an error came while booting error: no such device: //android/kernel, the kernel file is still in the partition. I have attached my system info, Error screen. I turned off the secure boot while doing this whole thing but i again turned it on so in screenshot secure boot is shown ON but please do consider that secure boot was OFF at the time. I tried to install manually by bootable USB, but when I hit enter to install PrimeOS the system restarts and boots into windows, If hit enter on PrimeOS Live system again restarts and boots into windows. I tried disabling windows in the BIOS now it boots from USB and when I hit enter on install PrimeOS,PrimeOS_Live,PrimeOS_DebugMode systems restarts and same installation window appears I tried several times but same thing would happen. This Happens with every android OS, and Only OS I succeed installing was Kali Linux Help would be really appreciated.
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Hi, I have an laptop with a 256GB nvme SSD and a 2TB HDD. I need to have Windows 10 and Ubuntu so I made a dual boot with Windows 10 on SSD and Ubuntu on an HDD partition. To do so I needed to change the sata mode to AHCI because Ubuntu does not install on Intel RST but with AHCI everything works fine. Recently I decided to put Ubuntu on SSD so I bought a new one. The problem is that with two SSDs and the sata mode set to AHCI the laptop won't boot, when I turn on I just get a black screen, I can't even enter the BIOS, to switch back to RST I have to hold the power button to reset the BIOS settings. With RST both SSDs works normally, I've installed Windows on both to test and had no problems. I already updated the BIOS with the latest version on ACER website but still not working with AHCI. Does anyone have any idea of how to make AHCI to work with two SSDs or to install Ubuntu (or another Linux distro) on RST? Specs: Laptop: Predator Helios 300 PH315-52 Processor: i7-9750H RAM: 16GB SSD1: Samsung MZVLB256 PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD2 (the new one): XPG S41 TUF AGAMMIXS41-256G-C PCIe Gen3 x4 HDD: WD20SPZX I read in another forum that AHCI can't work with two PCIe Gen3 x4 but I could not confirm that in any ACER documentation.
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I was thinking of dual booting my laptop with Windows 10 and Linux(possibly Pop OS or Linux Mint). My laptop necessarily doesn't give decent battery backup, yeah considering it's a gaming laptop and yeah it makes sense. Even surfing or watching something doesn't last for more then 1 to 1 and half hour(low brightness and everything as well). I thought of dual booting Windows and Linux so that whenever I'm surfing or doing other tasks like coding etc. I can use Linux and when I am doing extensive work or especially gaming I can use Windows. Does using Linux can be help me increase my battery backup, or it backfires and instead consume more power cos the device has two OS's in it? Is it a good idea? -
I dual booted my mac and tried to delete the alt boot but it failed. After booting my mac again will always boot to gnu grub. I’m not sure how to use gnu grub, so I tried using exit and halt but it just didn’t work. My boot manager refind doesn’t see my mac hard drive anymore and the recovery assistant drive manager doesn’t access the space gained from deleted the other boot. Please help me. I tried the internet recovery but the only option that can do anything is reseting my computer but I don’t want to do that.
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I recently got a Dell Precision 7760, and it shipped with Linux (Ubuntu 20.04 from Dell) and some special data science software I'd like to keep. However, I would like/need to daily drive Windows. My issue is that most of the instructions for setting up dualbooting assume you start with windows and add Linux, but I'm the other way around. Some notes: I am brand new to dualbooting, so any advice and cautions are welcome I am a Linux novice I would like to keep the install of Ubuntu as is, because I think it is set up in a special way for the software. So if I was to uninstall it and add it back, I would need to preserve it as is Dualbooting is just the first solution that seemed reasonable, so I'm open to alternatives E.g., would it be better/easier to just boot Linux off of an external USB drive as needed and have windows on the internal SSD? I've also read dualbooting (especially on a single drive) can have some complications/issues, and I need reliability (and simplicity) VMs/wine/etc. isn't really an option because I need the full power/capabilities of the hardware for both OS's Hardware specs: Intel Xeon W-11955M (8 core) RTX A5000 16 GB 128 GB 3200 MHz DDR4 ECC 4x32 GB One M.2 NVMe 1 TB SSD (I would really like to not have to open the laptop up to add another drive) Is dualbooting the best option for this situation, and if so, how should I do it?
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So i noticed that when i wanted to delete unwanted folders and files from windows /users folders by using the usual rm -rf * or rmdir * i get the response of name of directory : Directory not empty and i dont understand the logic as i have specified with -r or -rf that it should just delete them if that is of any difference i am using Win10 with arch linux that has ntfs-3g package installed. Is there an error in the commands or a limitation in the OS? -
I am planning to build my first computer tomorrow - I already have all the parts, so I'm not here for hardware... However, on the software side, Microsoft's documentation is unclear about whether your hardware must simply be capable of using Secure Boot to run Windows 11 or if it actually must be enabled. I plan to dual boot Manjaro for a few reasons, and it does not support Secure Boot. I do almost all of my computing in Linux - the Windows partition will be almost exclusively for gaming. Does Windows 11 require Secure Boot to be enabled to function correctly (including security updates)? Or should I just install Windows 10 to get around this even though it will EOL in a few years?
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Hey guys So i recently installed ubuntu on my old laptop alongside Windows 10(dualboot). That's my first time installing Ubuntu ever as i used on VMs. But i screwed up. I installed ubuntu 17.10 which is poorly built os which i installed before in a VM 2 years ago. Like it doesn't have much support for apps. I had a hard time installing grub customizer & wine refused everytime i tried to install it. And it's support in the community is very rare & irrelevant. So i did some research & found out that Pop-OS is one of the best distros based on ubuntu. And it pretty seemed good to me. I already have downloaded the iso. But i already have ubuntu installed on it. So I'm confused whether installing it over ubuntu won't conflict the grub or it won't affect Windows 10 installed on it. Can i just update to Pop-OS through ubuntu?. I'm a newbie to Linux personally but i know to use it. So guys just help me out please. Thank you -
Hello everyone I'm new here and I have a rather annoying problem. I wanted to try remixOS and installed it to a usb3.0 that I had laying around. Only created a dualboot on my main OS. Normally it's something you can easily get rid of using msconfig or easybcd the problem. however, that it's not there. I've already checked the bcd and it does show there, but it doesn't show anywhere else. I've also tried the system properties > advanced > boot and recovery settings > turned off list of operating systemes. This doesn't work either. Hope someone could help me fix this! Here is a screenshot of the bcdedit:
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I'm looking for a new laptop, with a few major priorities - I want to be able to dual boot it, since I'm using it for general web surfing, gaming, and dev work - I'd want it to be relatively thin/light, battery life isn't that large of a concern (I like the aesthetic of the MSI Stealth Pro) - In terms of gaming it wouldn't be anything intense - mostly just League, Overwatch, Civ 5/6 - Budget is $1000-2000 Does anyone have any experience dual booting either a MSI Stealth Pro or a Razer Blade? What are other models that would be comparable to those - I assume ASUS probably has something comparable, and I saw in other threads that people like Clevos? Thanks! -
I have a pc dual booted with windows 7 and windows 10. When booting up i always get 0xc000000e device missing, when i press enter to try again it says winload.exe is missing or contains errors. Going into bios then doing Save and quit makes it work but next time i boot up i get same error. Windows 7 boots up perfectly fine. Windows 7 and 10 are on separate drives. -
Hi all! I have a Macbook Pro (Yeah, I left the PCMR for a little while) and I'm trying to get the SSD from my gaming setup (which already has windows installed on it) to run on the macbook. I have an external enclosure that's USB 3.0, and I'm running it through an adapter to my thunderbolt port. My question is, how do I work the software side of things? Is it possible? I've read a few threads on the topic, but I haven't found anything yet that actually makes it work. Any help is great! Thanks! PS: Yes, I am aware that running an OS from an external hard drive is not ideal. My max transfer speed is 5 gbps if I'm lucky. -
While there may be slightly different quirks in the uninstall procedure for different distributions, I am curious what you all recommend as the preferred method. There are lots of existing forum posts and youtube videos, so am hoping to harness something of the wisdom of the crowds here. I am currently running Fedora 25 alongside Windows 10, but Ubuntu, LinuxMint, openSUSE, whatever you found on DistroWatch details are welcome. -
Hey, I'm trying to do a Hackintosh but the problem is that when I go into disk manager partition my SSD, boot into the mac installer and try and reformat it it won't allow me to reformat the partition to Mac OS X Journaled. The problem is that I don't want to loose my Windows 10 as it was a pain to install and get everything up and running. I have created a system image on a separate drive incase worse comes to worst. There must be a way to install Mac on the same SSD without reformatting the drive and keeping my Windows 10 OS. Thank you! -
Hi All, My grandfather recently got a new desktop that is installed with windows 10 (which he likes) to replace his windows 7 computer from 2008. He has had conflicting help from several people in regard to transfering data (because he knows all the folder names, programs, etc in his old computer). Rather than transfer data, I simply added his old hard drive to his new computer (so the new computer now has 2 HDD's). Now, he can access all of his old files from file explorer> my computer>OS:F. However, I (and He) would like to dual boot his new computer with both windows 10 (which is installed on the new hard drive) and windows 7 (which is installed on the older hard drive, which is now in the same computer). I attempted to use EasyBCD, but his new computer's windows 10 installation was running in UEFI mode, which caused several problems when attempting to dual boot windows 7 (installed under legacy mode). How should/can I fix this so that I can use a bootloader to let him pick between windows 7 and windows 10? (The ones he already has installed with programs and files). NOTES: -These are not custom built machines, both are Dell Studio XPS with proprietary hardware/drivers (for the most part). One from 2008 with a 1st gen i7, the other from 2016 with a 6th gen-skylake i7. -The reason for dual booting is because he adores windows 7, but likes windows 10 and is slowly becoming more familiar with it. He often needs to go back to 7 for certain tasks. -He is NOT computer literate in any way. -Switching the bios from UEFI to Legacy allows me to boot into windows 7, but I can't boot into windows 10 (Changing the boot order yields the error "No OS Detected"). -Currently, the only way I can switch back and forth between 10 and 7 (that I know of) is to switch the BIOS back and forth between legacy and UEFI. Thanks in advance! -
Hi, I have looked into the new Lenovo Yogabook and I really like it. It comes in two varieties tho: the Windows and the Android version. Both have their benefits to them. Is it possible to dual boot Android on the Windows Version and if no, why not? Thanks for your advise.
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