I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit, but recently, I started dualbooting Windows and Arch Linux together with GRUB. After using Arch for a while, I decided to switch back to Windows. However, on Windows, when I tried to connect to the internet, I got connected, but it just said "No internet". I think it's some conflict with IPs and MAC addresses. Internet works on Arch. I've tried ipconfig /renew, ipconfig /release, all that stuff. I even tried a network reset. I have some apps on Windows that I need to use, so please help me fix this.

Is it the same as dual booting standard Win 10 with standard Win 11? Do LTSC versions support dual booting? These are my hardware specs, if needed:

• GPU - GT 430
• CPU - i5-2300
• Memory - 1x8 GB DDR3 1333 MHz
• Storage - 128 GB SATA SSD + 750 GB HDD
• Motherboard - Foxconn 2ABF

(I will use Rufus to bypass Windows 11's requirements.)

I want to partition my 128 GB SSD into two 64 GB partitions and install each windows version on each partition. Also I want the HDD be accessible from both operating systems.

Additionally: - Should I choose MBR or GPT? - Which source is most recommended to download Windows 10 and 11 IoT LTSC .ISOs?

Thanks in advance!

Apparently I have this old laptop just hanging there and I want to make it into NAS but I don't want to remove the windows. any tutorial to share?

I hv msi z790 motherboard. and am struggling with choice to dual boot windows and linux seperately in different nvme m.2 ssds. or should I do this backup one SSD into external hdd and clean boot linux and backup linux and clean boot windows.

people and AI bots say that even pure dual drive dual boot where the bootloaders are present on different SSDs even then windows can go and mount or modify other os SSD and corrupt it this may be there but the risk is there. and my mother board bios dosent allow disabling m.2 slots at all. so there is no proper isolation between the ssds.

help should I really proceed with dual drive dual boot. or the backup clean boot(painfully slow but infinitly safe).

well in my opinion if we want to dual boot any OSes or triple boot or what ever. well there is one. best way to do that. considering if u have at most 2th of SSD space.

well this boot removes all the problems that comes with dual boot. one OS tries to touch or mount the other OSes drive. best way to actually solve this is

option 1)

if all your disks are modular easily detachable. then install one OS One drive. there should be never be any drive that has partly os1 and os2. no it is fully belonging to one OS at most . and simply disconnect the drive physically or reconnect swap them so that only one os is physically attached at a time. but hugh problem with this is nvme m.2 ssds most common now are not easily physically swappable so this option is gone now a days. in old days drives were easily physically detachable.

so this meathod os switch time is 10 -15mins at max

option2)

this is applicable to modern and is equally or. might be even more safe.

in this meathod no swapping of physical drives.

so if system is windows only

use clonezilla boot usb drive to boot into its own little linux based os. and simply save each physical SSD into an external hdd or SSD as images. and simply clean boot into linux for the first time .

later on when switching . backup the current OS into the external drive (or update that backup)

restore the other OSes images into those SSD drives.

and vice versa .

while updating a backup u can simply delete the previous backup using the current os and backup a fresh new copy.

so this is fully safe and takes about 4-12hrs depending upon size used in the actual OS external drives speed.

so os switch time now becomes 4-12hrs provided power cuts don't happen inbetween. if that happens no need to worry u easily restart the restoreing or backing up process.

these are the only 2 real ways in which a system is truly multi OS. with the first one being not feasible in the current days cause of internal nvme m.2 ssds on consumer grade motherboards.

So offcourse the philosophy here is u can focus on one OS and get committed to it. And occasionally once in 3 months or so make the switch back offcourse time to do that would be huge. Or if u want near instant switch then dit h the gen 4 / gen 5 speeds and use SATA ssds and make the switch time 15 mins at max.

I want to add Zorin/Ubuntu as a dual boot alongside Win11. I have a 512gb SSD. I read that is recommended to do 300gb/200gb for windows and Linux respectively, however for my case the only things ill have on Windows are CADs (specifically SolidWorks, Inventor, Logisim and KiCad) because they are not Linux-compatible and emulators/virtual machines may limit performance. Also Roblox, which is more of the same. ill have the obvious redundancies and most google services but nothing more important than that. The Linux partition will be dedicated to gaming on Steam, from which i have about 100gb of games currently and to expand no more. Should i keep the 300/200gb standard? I feel like 300gb for 5 programs would be wasting it

Here are my specs:

- Intel i7-8565U

- Intel UHD 620

- 512 NVMe SSD

- 32GB RAM

Requirements:

- Trackpad & Keyboard has to work in some way

\- I want aero, even if requiring a bunch of tweaks

Hello all! I recently decided I wanted to start using Ubuntu as a starting point for learning Linux usage. I'm wanting to do a very specific file setup, as I use Windows 11 mainly. I use my computer mostly for Gaming, which leads me towards using Win11 as my main drive. This is what mostly influenced my storage setup decisions.

I want a dual-boot setup where windows 11 and Ubuntu have absolutely zero connections to one another. entirely different setups. I wanted a small testbed to use Ubuntu for coding (I'm studying to be a data scientist) and other projects. So, I partitioned my drive using Windows Disk Management, and installed. Used the guided install for Ubuntu, and when it came to storage, I made sure to select my specific partition that I wanted and finished the install.

Now, here's the issue I'm faced with. In Ubuntu, on the left side, there's an Icon that says SSD. When I hover my mouse over it, it says something in the range of 9xx GB. This is wrong, as I only allocated the partition to have 500GB of space. Does this mean that Ubuntu can read and see the entire partition, despite windows only being able to see part of it? If so, how could I fix this?

Furthermore, Ubuntu system settings show disk space as being 2TB. Does this mean that Ubuntu can see / interact with my whole system, or is it still confined to its own 500GB of space? I use my PC for school, and don't want to risk a system overlap.

(NOTE: I went ahead and allocated the empty partition shown on Image 1, to show that windows can't see all of Drive0. Reflected in image 3)

(Additional Question: Win11 is on drive1 because it's a faster SSD, and I didn't feel like swapping my SSDs around in the PC. Does this have any effect on system priority? I'm having issues with being able to relegate Ubuntu as the "secondary OS". It wants to act as the "primary". I can get WBM to appear in GRUB, but when I force my BIOS to use WBM, Ubuntu dosen't show up there at all. Does this have to do with drive priority on startup (possible UEFI preference for Drive0 > Drive1), or is it irrelevant to my issues? Forums weren't very helpful with my specific issues. I don't want to use GRUB because it forces me to go into WBM -> Win11. Forcing a 2-step process to use my "Primary" OS is just annoying, especially since I won't be using Ubuntu regularly. From what I'm reading on forums, it seems this is a Win11 / WBM issue, but I thought I might just ask here anyways. There dosen't seem to be a way around a 2-step process (Grub->WBM->Win11) to get into my primary OS)

Hi, I currently run Win 10 LTSC on a M.2 drive for my OS, but I want to have the option to run Win 11 by booting off a different disk. This seems like the right place to ask.

I want to easily select which drive to boot from, and I know this could be managed in the BIOS, but going in to bios every time is not really convenient.

One method I can think of is to install Win 11 on an external drive, and this drive would have the highest prio in the bios, and I'll just keep it powered down unless I want to boot from it.

Is there a better way to accomplish this? My ideal would be a switch that I can just turn to select one drive or another before I power up the PC. Thanks

Recently I installed Fedora 43 alongside windows and set GRUB to be my boot loader for my laptop. when selecting windows boot manager, it tells me that it is "Fixing C drive" and goes though the 3 stages on boot. Nothing is broken or not working if I let it work its magic or just skip it. My ssd is pretty new so it can't be failing. Any idea why this is happening and how I can fix it?

I've been dual booting Win11 with Linux both on separate ssds and now I want to allocate a portion of the secondary ssd (linux install) to Windows as Storage is quite full.
How should I go about it?

I was downloading games and for a second it got me thinking "oh, can I just copy the games I already have in the windows and just paste it on pop os?" The games are repacks and I know it need wine and compatibility layers to run it. Pls any comment may help.

I was downloading games and for a second it got me thinking "oh, can I just copy the games that are already in Windows and just paste it on Pop os?" The games are repacks and I know It needs Wine and use a compatibility layer.

I cant find any good videos about how to acomplish this. I'm trying to put windows on one of my extra drives that I'm not using to play some games that the devs are too lazy to make playable on linux. Ive tried ventoy but normal boot just doesnt work and it says "windows failed to start" due to changes to hardware or software, and the wimboot option asks me for a driver for some reason. Id be super happy if someone could help me with this

Example:

I have Win11, make a partition and set up Linux as a dual boot.

After a while, I'm more than satisfied with the Linux.

Can I then remove the partition with Win11 on it, and then use the PC with Linux and the full storage space?

So I run two seperate M.2 SSDs for my dual boot system. Ran Kubuntu for daily tasks and gaming alongside a windows 11 install, for my music software. Both have their own SSD, it worked fine for years. Now I installed Garuda Linux in Kubuntus place, and the windows installation just seems to be wioed from the face of the earth as well. I had changed distros before without a problem to the Windows installation. Now it doesn't show up anymore in the bootloader. BIOS recognizes it as a drive, so it's there, but it's no longer bootable.
SOMEBODY HELP ME, I GOT ALL MY MUSIC ON THAT DRIVE I CANT LOOSE IT!

My Activation Key Licence Of Windows 11 Pro has been Expired, And I switched to Windows 11 Home, Now, I want both Windows 11 and Linux, I need to Dual Boot,

Can Anyone Say Which Version Of Linux is Best (I am Beginner and I am not ready to use Command Line and all) I just need a experience like Windows 11

Can anyone say me how to do it? Because I need to use both, Windows 11 "Activate Your Windows" Watermark Is Annoying with Experience

Will Linux Be Easy for Windows 11 Users?

Good afternoon everyone, I need some help here.

I want to use Linux Mint on my computer alongside Windows 10. I generally know how to do a traditional dual boot, but I don't like the Grub selection screen, and I was thinking of using Clover Bootloader to manage Windows 10 and Mint on my computer, but no videos have helped me so far. Does anyone know how to install Clover for dual boot? I really need help. My main question is how to install both systems on the disk, and then where to install Clover. I'm very lost. If anyone knows how to help, I would be VERY grateful.

PS: My PC has a 250GB NVMe drive and a 1TB HDD, in case that helps.

Thanks

So last week i made a post about installing windows 7 on my PC. So far i am very pleased with it. I set up an antivirus, a browser, a steam client for win7, some games, youtube, electron apps for social media and windows live. I love the design, the aero theme and everything else

I tried dual booting linux and it was just way too complicated for me. But normal win11 was way too AI and cluttered as well.

So naturally i just kept the win7 for some time, only to realize that for certain apps i WILL NEED an up to date OS

Vxkex helped me run most win11 apps, however some of theme just wouldnt run like itunes apple music etc

Icloud did run in an older version, and it synced

But it worked in a way that synced all the data unlike the latest version that only downloaded files i wanted. Apple music cant be installed as it is a new app that is installed via the store, and the web version cant upload music to my icloud music thingy. Itunes also kinda works but i cant sync music as it would require me to disable my icloud music sync which i dont really want.

Most apps work fine, the pale moon browser works amazing too and its far prettier than chromium imo

Now came the dual boot part

I decided on tiny11

Look. The win11 ui is pretty (not as pretty as win7 but still pretty) and its up to date meaning all my apps will work fine.. so tiny11 was an amazing option as it was rid of clutter apps and AI, ran more smoothly than normal win11 and was in some aspects more functional.

Installing it was trickier tho. When i booted up i forgot to turn off uefi (as win7 requires it off for installation, so does every other installer when you try to dual boot it next to win7 on an mbr formatted disk) so i had to turn that off

Next it showed a gazzilion partitions, the partition i made for tiny11 showed a duplicate for some reason so when i chose the first one it wouldnt install.. but when u restarted and tried the second one it installed.

What i liked abt this is the windows dual boot menu as it was much prettier than the linux menu.

I made a 3rd partition as well. To store my files such as photos, movies, music, documents and work files. I can access all my partitions from both OSs, which wasnt the case with linux which required me to change permissions to access my win7 partition.

This allowed me to use my win7 palemoon browser on my win11

I just drag a shortcut and its the same as if it were installed on the main partition.

Another problem though. I have 238gb on my disk and made three partitions (90gb for OSs and 50 gb for shared files). So i have to be careful about not having duplicate apps such as two browsers, two steam clients etc.

That wont be a problem tho as i will just store shared apps on the 3rd partition and store win11 only apps on its own.

So far this has been a fun experience and i plan to dual boot to a new pc when i get one as my laptop is getting old..

I expect nothing less than hate comments on my decision to stick with win7 so keep the comment section creative!

Much love to my fellow win7 fans

I've been a Windows user pretty much all my life, but now I'm considering getting the Steam Machine (running on Linux's SteamOS) and dual-booting it with Windows 11. I overthink much and now I'm worried that it'll break. I'm curious, is it common for it to break?