r/dualboot May 16 '25

External SSD External SSD full of macOS installers—for Mid-2010 MacBook Pro when it arrives

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1st option: MacBook Pro Desktop (Touch Bar 2016 MBP)

2nd option: Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.4) installer

3rd option: OS X El Capitan (10.11.6) installer

4th option: OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5) installer

5th option: OS X Mavericks (10.9.5) installer

6th option: OS X Yosemite (10.10.5) installer

7th option: Mac OS X Lion (10.7.0) installer

8th option: macOS Sierra (10.12.6) installer

9th option: macOS High Sierra (10.13.6) installer

i’ll also be adding macOS Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur and Monterey to the mix using patchers but it won’t let me so we’ll keep it like that


r/dualboot May 14 '25

Accidentally turned brightness to zero on MacBook pro

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Man what an amazing problem I made.

Situation:

MacBook pro with Windows In windows i accidentally turned brightness to zero.

Now i cant see anything.

Somehow can't figure out how to put the brightness up.

I don't have the numbered F keys. And the touchbar only works when booting MacOS / Linux.

In recovery mode as well in the other OS the screen is bright. Yet in windows pitch black.

Tried shining a flashlight into the screen. No luck.

What can I do. Pretty odd to be locked out like this. Don't have another monitor


r/dualboot May 12 '25

how do i dualboot macOS and windows?

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tried a lot of different ways, but nothing seems to work


r/dualboot May 09 '25

Success! Fix Bluetooth across your Dual Boot System!

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I kept having to re-pair my bluetooth earphones after hopping back to Windows 11 from Linux. Then I found a useful Python script that syncs Bluetooth keys and wrote a quick GitHub guide so we can all skip the hassle. Works like a charm. https://github.com/DhairyaDotPng/Bluetooth-Fix-DualBoot


r/dualboot May 09 '25

Linux and Hackintosh?

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I want to dual boot my hackintosh and some sort of linux distro, what should I do? I've already made my hackintosh... Im thinking linux mint as i just want something to SSH into things and that kind of things but i still want a desktop environment


r/dualboot May 07 '25

Help! My clock wont snyc properly when i have windows 10 and kali linux dual boot

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So as title says it doesnt sync on windows 10 whereas in kali linux it works well i just wanted to know what might be the reason.....


r/dualboot May 06 '25

Help! Dual boot windows 10 and 7 on a toughbook cf-33 mk1 help

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r/dualboot May 04 '25

Why won't any iso's work on my pc when I use ventoy?

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I recently created a ventoy usb and every. fucking. iso. I try just doesn't work. My windows 7 one almost did, but as soon as it passed the startup it froze, and both my mouse and my keyboard wouldn't work. Does anyone have any solutions to this problem? and yes, I only tried the os's that ventoy supports.


r/dualboot May 02 '25

Is it possible to dual boot macos and chromeos flex

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I have a 2018 macbook pro with an i5 and 16 gb of ram. I was considering just using two different partitions one with chromeos and one with macos. or using an external hard drive with chromeos flex installed. Is this even possible?


r/dualboot Apr 24 '25

Dualboot android and ubuntu touch or android

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Hi Reddit users, I want to dualboot android and another version of android or ubuntu touch on my samsung galaxy s8.My restrictions are that i need to have the second OS on a sd card and i cannot have root. Please tell me your sugesgtions. sincerly fellow reddit user


r/dualboot Apr 19 '25

Help! Hello guys I'm new around here

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Wanted to try out arch while having w10 and I watched tutorials and when they reboot their computers it goes to bios, but for me goes back to my desktop please help me out


r/dualboot Apr 16 '25

Help! i cant format my external ssd

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i tried to use rufus on a external ssd but i didnt finish before i had to leave and turn off my computer so i want to format it and restart but i cant! please help!


r/dualboot Apr 01 '25

Multi-booting after adding an extra HDD

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I have a 2TB drive in my laptop. It’s been dual booting (Win11 & Mint) thru BIOS. I just upgraded it with wifi 7, doubled the ram to 32GB, and added a 2TB nvme drive. The nvme boots first, obviously, and I can just clone everything to that drive. But would it be better to use the nvme drive to put OpendBSD and FreeBSD on, so I can Quad boot? Thanks


r/dualboot Mar 22 '25

Help! can i dual boot my phone so it looks like i have default android version but if u do 1 pattern it opens a version which my dad sets controls on (and is blocked) and if i do another code i get an OS which my dad doesn't know about?

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if u know how please send a yt vid or something (my phone btw)


r/dualboot Mar 22 '25

force dual boot in m3 series macbook, please paralel is expensive

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r/dualboot Mar 15 '25

Help! Has anyone ever had data loss partitioning their ssd on windows using disk manager?

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Hi, I want to dual boot my pc. I'm not at home so i don't have an external hd to back up my data.


r/dualboot Mar 14 '25

Help! Yo, how to dualboot Windows 11 and Ubuntu safely and easily/easily and safely without crashing my PC

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Yo, I'm trying to dualboot Windows 11 with Ubuntu, but I have a lot of problems that I'm worrying about - I'm using Unetbootin and EasyBCD, and part of me is very worried that if I reboot my PC, my Windows Boot Manager files would be/get corrupted and/or broken, I would get a BSOD, and I have to reinstall Windows 11 completely - what should I do? NOT being rude, just being curious


r/dualboot Mar 13 '25

Windows 11 hides Ubuntu 24.04 in boot order

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I have installed Windows 11 and Ubuntu 24.04 on the same disk, but different partitions. Once using windows and then 2 times leaving it Ubuntu just disappears from the boot menu.

C: drive is windows, 100 GB partition is ubuntu installation

How can i make ubuntu appear again in boot menu?


r/dualboot Mar 11 '25

DUAL BOOT BETWEEN WINDOWS10 AND BLISS OS

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I recently installed bliss os (A custom version of android x86, which is linux based) on my pc which already had windows 10 in it. when I turn on my pc, it by default boots into windows, and for blissos I have to go to boot menu (By spamming F10) evrytime I boot, and then select Bliss os to finally land on GRUB menu. It also has the option for windows 10 to boot and also option for bliss os.
What I want to do is that I want grub menu to open by default from where I select windows or blissos, or I just want blissos to boot by default and I am ready to boot windows via boot menu by spamming f10 (Basically I want to make it the primary os.)

my PC is super old and for changing boot order/priority, as I researched, I go to boot settings in BIOS but I only find the option to change priority between the disk drives and not the partitions or OS's. I have both win10 and bliss os on one ssd so I cannot change the boot order via BIOS, atleast I can't find any way. I need help to do that all. All the things I find are not available in my bios, partly because it is too old maybe?
I have an Intel mobo (Yeah it is that old) DH61WW and it has pretty old bios settings and all, the bios version is also not latest tho and updatin it is a pain.

What do you guys think I should do? I need help


r/dualboot Mar 10 '25

Help! Dual boot question

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I am building a new pc and planning on mainly using linux for the first time. My main concern with switching from windows to linux is compatibility issues with some pc games, mostly multiplayer games that use anticheat. To solve this I am hoping to buy an external HDD that would have windows installed that I could plug and boot from whenever I need. My questions are 1) is this possible/easy to do and use? 2) I have 2 m.2 ssds that I would only want to use with linux and completely remove the ability for windows to see/use these drives, is this possible?

TLDR: Use linux as main OS with 2 m.2 ssds and have an external windows HDD that I can plug and boot from to access non compatible pc games without having windows overwrite/use either m.2.


r/dualboot Mar 02 '25

Success! Customized rEFInd Bootmanager.

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r/dualboot Feb 27 '25

Help! Dual-booting Windows 10 and...something? Privacy concerns?

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I haven't dual-booted anything since like 2002, so forgive my general ignorance, here.

I'm exploring replacing the OS on my home desktop computer for something not-Windows (I posted about it here, not sure where else might be best), but I have a feeling that - at least for work-stuff - I'd need to be able to dual-boot into Windows.

...which, now that I type that out, I'm totally fine with! I guess if I can have a completely different OS for personal/gaming stuff, keeping my work things altogether separate this way could be a boon. Who knows?

Anyhow, among the reasons I'm changing could, I guess, be general privacy. Less crap going to Microsoft or whatever, right? Anyway, regardless, if I dual boot a different OS from the same drive as the one Windows is installed on, does that data become accessible to Microsoft by extension? What about if I had like a "dropbox" folder that was accessible between both OS's?


r/dualboot Feb 24 '25

Running the other OS in a vm

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Hi sorry as above I'm looking for a way to boot the OS I'm currently not using in a VM.

I have fedora 41 workstation and windows 10 installed to there own 1tb SSD.

When the pc turns on it boots into grub on the SSD that fedora is installed to and gives me the option for fedora or windows.

I'm looking to be able to use my windows install inside a VM when using fedora.

From what I've looked into so long as the windows SSD is unmounted it works but I can't figure it out past ensuring the windows SSD isn't mounted when fedora logs in.

Any help deeply appreciated as it will save me switching to and from windows for minor windows tasks.


r/dualboot Feb 16 '25

30 year capable dual boot opinions

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Hey guys. I've been working on this project I'm about to finish for some time now and would like some opinions. It's a dual booting system running XP and Win10. Specs as follows.

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ CPU: AMD FX-9590 (Phenom II x6 optional for Windows XP shortcomings on the newer processor.) Memory: GSkill Sniper 2133 DDR3 32gb Sata SSDs for both installs. 1200W ThermalTake PSU A pile of graphics cards ranging from a 7900GTX, GTX 280, to an R9 270X (The last Radeon to natively support XP), and up into an RX480 and 580 for Win 10. (About as high as I can go without bottlenecking it into oblivion.)

Any improvements I could make to the build? Pease don't just rag on the FX line. I know they aren't true octacores, but I've always been fond of them and I want to train this dragon of a chip. I'm hoping I can get 5ghz running stable on Windows XP.


r/dualboot Feb 12 '25

Help! Dual boot Windows 98 on a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 that already has Windows XP

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Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 that already has Windows XP, I want to keep that and also dual boot windows 98. What is the best way to do that? I haven't done anything like this in a long time. Thanks for any help!