Timeline for Disk corruption when using Windows 7 and Windows 11 on the same computer
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| Jul 17, 2023 at 23:25 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | When dual-booting any Windows 8.x or newer and Linux disabling its Fast Startup feature is a must indeed. NOT a problem when multi-booting any combinations of any Windows AWARE of said feature, i.e., any combination of 2 or more Windows of any version 8.x or newer. Not a problem because this versions do have the required "drivers" to deal with booting from semi-hibernated partitions without corrupting data. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 23:08 | comment | added | anon | No issue with Windows 10 and a couple of Linux machines on my Windows 11 Host machine. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:28 | comment | added | AlexVB | @John If I got it right, you will have the same issue with Linux or even two Windows 10 setups on the same computer. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:20 | comment | added | anon | It is not a bad design. Windows 7 is old and out of support. Designers are making machines for new operating systems, not old systems. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:09 | comment | added | AlexVB | @ChanganAuto Thank you. It's probably true but I can't say I have clear understanding of this. I didn't touch any files on "inactive drive", so it's like Windows 11 caches NTFS metadata on all drives and on boot starts to mess up anything that doesn't match the cache, even though it doesn't need to access the drives at all. Very bad design to me. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 22:00 | comment | added | anon | With a decent machine, run Windows 7 as a VM inside Windows 11. I do this - it works just fine. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 21:52 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | Pretty much the same question and the answer is as well applicable: Windows 10 vs Windows 7 GPT filesystem incompatibility? | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 21:50 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | It doesn't "write", it hibernates, and any accessible drive is read and indexed, period. Windows 7 doesn't support Fast Startup and that is (should be) the obvious problem here. That and the fact that using Windows 7 in 2023 is dumb & dangerous if online. Nothing else to add here, honestly. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 21:46 | comment | added | AlexVB | But why? What is the reason to write something to the drive user doesn't use? What info is stored there? Regarding the notice about hardware, let's talk about Windows 10 if you like. It has the same issue with Fast Start, AFAIK. | |
| Jul 17, 2023 at 21:30 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | Fast Startup is what it is (and explained in one of your links) and affects ANY partition with a file system recognized by Windows. It can (and arguably should) be disabled. That said there's NO scenario where you can make a dual-boot with Windows 7 and 11. The former is too old to support the hardware required by the latter. | |
| S Jul 17, 2023 at 20:49 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 17, 2023 at 20:49 | history | asked | AlexVB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |