Questions tagged [multi-boot]
Installation or use of multiple operating systems on a single computer.
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How to programmatically reboot Windows 11 without installing updates?
As the undermentioned demonstrates:
The Start Menu (Microsoft.Windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy) is able to invoke a reboot without updating the OS. However, file:///%SYSTEMROOT%/system32/...
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2 EFI on system, which one to remove and how?
I installed Pop OS on my system and on it I created my virtual Mac system Hackintosh.
But I wanted to completely get rid of the Linux Pop OS which I did.
Yet I can see 2 EFI files in my disk ...
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Window installation error with linux boot drive
I can't install Windows 11 on my SSD with a GPT partition. I've tried using both Ventoy and Rufus, with and without secure boot, but nothing seems to work. It keeps showing the error:
Windows could ...
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Windows 11 Device Encryption not working after dual boot
First I installed Windows, I turned on Secure Boot and checked in System Information that the PCR7 Configuration was OK and that Device Encryption Support was ready to be enabled. Then I installed ...
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Switch partition drive on dual boot
I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11. Each partition is on a specific drive, ubuntu is on a sata 500GB SSD and Windows is on a NVMe 1TB SSD.
The windows partition barely use 200GB of ...
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How can I increase my EFI partition size in dual boot? [closed]
I am dualbooting Debian 12 alongside Windows 11. My goal is to increase the size of my EFI partition. I made a new EFI partition using diskpart, I shrinked about 1Gb of my Windows' partition size, and ...
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Windows Boot: Stuck in Boot loader
This question is about a Laptop which has Windows 10 64-Bit and 32-Bit in a dual boot configuration via Windows boot manager.
A CPU upgrade (change of the CPU, bought used) was recently performed. I ...
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Windows after Nobara installation
I found this tutorial, but it seems to be written for someone that has a single drive.
My current setup is:
200 GB SSD (NTFS) that contained a previous Windows install, that I plan to format as the ...
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Partially shared home: dual boot, same /home partition, one user per OS, same UIDs for perms, but different home dirs
Here is a general outline of what I want to achieve, given that I am the only user of my computer:
Dual boot with 2 Linux OS
Easily share (read/write, probably no execute) some of the data accessed ...
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How to get Bootcamp Windows 10 installation to boot after removing macOS?
The macOS installation on my ageing 2013-model MacBook Pro (MacBookPro10,2, "Early 2013") was becoming unusable, so I went on to replace it with Ubuntu. This worked as a charm, but after ...
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ZFS I/O error after rebooting
I have a dual boot system with Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. The latter is a separate SSD from Windows, which is marked as Offline in Windows so that it can't be touched, and uses the ZFS filesystem.
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Files and folders on shared drive created on Linux are not visible in Windows (dual-boot)
I have a dual-boot with Linux (Manjaro) and Windows installed on two separate SSDs, plus I have a shared ex-fat HDD which contains documents and the like.
Problem is, very often, when I'm on Linux and ...
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Does Windows multi boot share BitLocker key from the TPM?
I want to use an application that requires kernel access and can't be run on a VM, but I want to isolate it from my day-to-day environment, without buying a whole new PC for it.
I thought about using ...
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Windows installer not detecting drives on dualbooted system
I'm running Windows 11 with Fedora dual booted, or atleast I was, until one day Windows started throwing "Inaccessible Boot Device". To fix that, I'm trying to reinstall Windows without ...
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Windows 11 & 11 Dual Boot - Show which OS to boot into on startup?
I recently moved an M.2 drive from my second PC to my primary PC. My primary PC already has a Windows 11 installation and so does the newly installed M.2. I would like to keep both installs and boot ...
