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DIal OS problem~ WIndows 10 and 11

Bios_unlimited

I installed windows 11 on a hard drive then installed windows 10 on another drive. Now I cannot access the windows 11. Upon restarting dual bios not showing and only option to enter is windows 10. Device manager showing  a drive where windows 11 is loaded which is inaccessible to me at all. I did not configure BIOS. I was using Sandisk USB to install. My motherboard is Gigabyte B360M. Please help as all my files are saved in windows 11 os system.  

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Did you install each os with only one drive plugged in? If not the bootloader is only on one drive.
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9 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Did you install each os with only one drive plugged in? If not the bootloader is only on one drive.

I installed win 11 first then parted another drive using system partition. Then installed win 10 on that drive and while leaving the win 11 drive untouched. 

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Unplug the win 10 drive and reinstall win 11 on the other drive. Then you'll have a bootloader on each drive.
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4 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Unplug the win 10 drive and reinstall win 11 on the other drive. Then you'll have a bootloader on each drive.

Right now is not there any other way to rescue win 11 from that drive and get the dual bios option on start up without installing windows 11 again? 

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When you installed 10 with 11 plugged in the bootloader was probably moved to the 10 disk.
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10 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Are both disks showing in disk manager?

That 111 GB drive is loaded with win 11

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41 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

You have to assign the 111 gb partition a drive letter.

Next?

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What happens when you reboot now? You should be able to access the 111gb disk now.
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38 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

What happens when you reboot now? You should be able to access the 111gb disk now.

I resrarted it. Still the same condition persists. 

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Can you access the 111gb files in explorer? Can you see the win11 files on it?
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Your 111 gb disk is where win 11 is installed? You have one hdd with win 10, and one with win 11?

 

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9 minutes ago, povareniyugic said:

Your 111 gb disk is where win 11 is installed? You have one hdd with win 10, and one with win 11?

 

Yes C win 10 and w win 11

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Can you access file explorer for that drive from disk management?

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27 minutes ago, povareniyugic said:

Can you access file explorer for that drive from disk management?

Yes for both of your questions.

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Can you see the win 11 folders/files in explorer not disk manager on the 111gb disk (W:)???
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18 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Can you see the win 11 folders/files in explorer not disk manager on the 111gb disk (W:)???

I can in fact.

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11 minutes ago, Bios_unlimited said:

I can in fact.

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I can see the disk both on disk manager and explorer, I can even open the drive as you can see. 

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You said that you have important files on windows 11 right, so if you can tell mi on wich partiton are those files

 

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