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@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I am working to create a dual booth on separate drives of windows 7 and Linux Mint 19.3 but when I do the command in the terminal (8:00) nothing comes up it just goes back to the $. I checked the connection and the computer is booting into windows ok, and when I type drives in linux and it goes to the drives box the windows hard drive is listed. I don't understand why it won't show up in the terminal. Any ideas on how to get the dual boot to work?
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I use multiboot, windows 10, LMDE, Ubuntu, Elementary, Zorin, Mx Linux. Just started fresh about 2 weeks ago. its been years since i had a computer. I was given a crusty shell and slowly upgraded it with parts the past few months, all i need now is a good graphics card and im TURBO.
Thank you very much for this video. I just followed your instructions (same MB vendor but with two NVME SSDs and an existing Manjaro installation on a password protected NVME SSD) and everything is perfect right now and it was so easy to setup (even the grub update which is the best thing about the whole dual booting solution). Really nice and simple tutorial!
Excellent video. I am getting ready to install Linux on a separate SSD on my laptop. My laptop came pre-installed with Windows 10 but I want to have Linux available to do a lot of my work in. Thanks.
Looking to do this on a really old Lenovo Thinkpad T400s that a friend gave me to fool around with. Did you do it by installing a second drive in place of the DVD drive? That is what I am going to try.
Having just spent a few days desperately trying to get ANY operating system to work on what used to be a Windows-only machine, let me add a few things... 1. Windows install medium; a USB stick will be your friend, but I've also managed to use an internal SSD (or rather, a bootable partition on it) as install medium; this is now my "in case of major screw-up that incolves re-installing Windows, break glass" SSD. 2a. I haven't seen the full video yet, started my comment early, so there is a good chanche that you've actually touched on the matter already, but let me stress: Disable fast boot, disable secure boot. Secure boot might actually manage to re-enable itself on each re-boot, just keep disabling it. 2b. You (a "general" you, not aimed at anyone specific) might have opted to install a (first/second/third/whatevereth) OS which actually supports secure boot; Ubuntu and its derivatives (Mint, among others) are among those... in this case, prior to venturing into installing that OS, DISABLE FAST BOOT, DISABLE SECURE BOOT, DISABLE THAT CRAP BEFORE IT vIOLENTLY TRIES TO MAKE BABIES WITH YOUR HARDWARE!!!! On points 2a and 2b, trust me, disable secure boot... and check with a flamethrower afterwards. I found out the hard way that secure boot really is nothing more than a secure pain in the bunghole. Tried Manjaro (where it even messed up my abilty to run the live version from USB), Mint, Ubuntu, (an old version of) Xubuntu, Wayne OS (billed as a Chrome-like OS from wht I gathered, but secure boot wouldn't let me try it out), and ReactOS before managing to get the Manjaro live USB to work around secure boot and managing to turn a 112G SSD into the install medium for the Windows 10 ISO. Also, over these last few days I became an alcoholic. Or, more of one than I might already have been, depending on how one looks at it.... either way, whiskey is now part of my regimen regardless if it's 05:35AM or 14:15PM.... thanks, secure boot....
Yup Secure Boot can be a big problem! I've ran into similar issues in the past so most of the times I had to go into my BIOS to turn it off if I had problems with install.
Thanks so much for mentioning DISABLE FAST BOOT. I had Windows 10 installed on an SSD drive and it ran perfectly until I hooked up the linux drive and tried to boot from grub. Windows 10 then ran like molasses. Saw your post and disabled fast boot and Windows 10 now runs perfectly when starting it from the Grub menu. Endless thanks!!!
Bro, Thanks to you I finally solved the "dual-boot two separate internal drive issue." It took me only 10 minutes to do. I'm a first time viewer, I "liked" and subscribed to your channel. I am going to your channel to see if I can now partition the windows drive for Linux file storage and backup. The windows drive is 2tb HDD and the Linux Mint 21 drive is 1tb SSD. Thanks again for keeping it simple.
Thank you for this video. Did all of this yesterday, and everything went almost exactly like you showed. I am running Ubuntu 21.10 so the GRUB edits varied a little. That's it. Everything is running smoothly so far.
Hi, I just did this on my computer, following all your indications. It is working just perfect, only had to modify de Windows registry in order to have te same date and time on both systems. Tomorrow I'll start to install the software I need on Windows, I haven't used Windows from more than a year ago. Thank you very much for your video. Cheers!!!
Excellent information for dual boot problems and watching this video saved my precious time and money.I did the same thing and my computer started functioning like a new one.Thanks for sharing this video.
THANK YOU SIR! I was trying to dual boot windows 10 + linux mint mate for the last 5 days and spent 5 hours a day but nothing worked then i stumbled upon your tutorial! Thanks.
Great video! Could never get Linux to create a bootable drive so created a bootable on a windows os using the windows updater program. Everything else worked great. Removed the drive with Linux from my Toshiba p875 laptop. Installed the 500g wd blue drive and loaded windows 10 pro. Followed instructions precisely disabling fast restart in windows, prioritize the linux drive, updated the grub and works flawlessly. Thank you!
Great video - thanks for the guide - helped a lot. I'm in the same boat - I use linux mint for mostly everything but need windows for one or two programs that don't run on linux yet ;-) I was able to get the win10 usb created without woeusb - just formatted the usb in NTFS and copied the ISO contents over and it worked. Thanks again!
Will this work the same for a ( triple boot ) with a Msata in the wwan slot for the third hard drive in a laptop. Any reply would be helpful, thanks. Great info over, good video.
- Thanks for video on your simple approack to setting up windows on a Linux PC. I've done 2 installs of Linux on windows PC, but I never did windows on a linux PC which looked harder from other videos involving fiddling around with code. - I like your approach for installing Windows on a linux PC. Also having [Grub+linux] and [Windows] on two separate drives I think creates less conflicts and boot up problems compared to if they are on the same partioned hard drive. Now it as though I have 2 PCs in one; A linux PC and Windows one. - Using your approach I installed Windows 10 Pro on the second M2 drive on the Pcie 2.0 slot on the MSI B450 Mortar Max Mobo. I heard issues that the second M2 slot does not work for booting, but I had no issues, booted straight up. Now I have a super fast Windows Pcie 2.0 drive. - Oh watch out! many of second M2 slots are Pcie only, i.e. it will not support the many (cheaper) SATA M2 drives out there. You must buy a NvME Pcie drive. Pcie 3.0 should fine it s backwards compatible with Pcie 2.0, my M2 pcie 3.0 worked in the B450 Pcie 2.0 slot. - Only issue I had was creating the Windows ISO USB stick from the Windows website. On an Asus dual boot laptop I kept geting an error message in the creat ISO part. Luckily I had an old Windows ISO stick from a Windows Key code supplier. It was in French, but Windows 10 now allows you to switch the language after install no problem. I just had to purchase a new Windows activation Key Code for this new Windows install. - Other comments here on disabling secure boot important of course.
If after you enter the command sudo os-prober, nothing show up you might wanna search for "covert BIOS mode to UEFI" and look for a good tutorial about it.
Hi, thanks for the great video. I have one question, I'm use Windows as my main OS with several hard drives and i want to install Linux on a new one. But I want the extra hard drives only to be visible from my Windows OS. So i have Linux with only one drive visible, and Windows with the rest of my drives. Could I do this my just leaving fast startup in Windows enabled? Or is there a way to hide the drives in Linux/not even adding them?
Thanks for the easy to understand way in which you explained the steps. I have windows 10 installed and working ok. Linux mint 20.3 is installed on my second drive. I however do not see the Linux drive listed in the BIOS boot order and there is no "Setting" option to locate "Boot" and "UEFI drive BBS priorities". What should I do?
That's great to hear! I'm not certain why you're not seeing it as that's what I see in my motherboard BIOS settings so maybe yours might be different but if it's the same , then definitely don't know why 🤔
Small gotcha! Windows 10 can boot quickly and you will not be able to hit 'delete' or 'F2' key to get into the BIOS after install to reconfigure the boot sequence. If this happens, run Windows, choose Window (Start) button, choose Power and then, while holding down shift key, choose restart. After a moment, this brings you to a menu. Choose 'Use a device' and you should see and option to boot from Window, A bootable USB key, or Ubuntu/Mint if you have that already on your hard drive. Choose 'Ubuntu' to boot into Linux and then you can make the changes to grub suggested in the video to continue your dual boot journey :)
Why install it inside the case? I use the external hard drive as a USB. I have a question though. Since I plan to use the hard drive only for Linux, can I just skip the partitions part. I hate that and often get confused with it.
Would love to try this on my laptop with windows ssd and blank hdd. Do I need to disconnect internally my hdd my laptop before I install LM 20.2? Or i can install directly to my hdd and make hdd LM 20.2 my 1st priority boot. Thanks.
Can Grub be set to default to Windows after the time delay the menu is set for? That is automatically go to windows so that default is windows but linux is an option
Hmmm I thinking it could be set to Windows although I don't recall how to edit Grub file to initiate this however I'm sure there are other tutorials or sites which can show you how to do this.
Interesting video, thanks. But, I am having trouble understanding a problem with this, I have a PC running Linux Mint Tricia 19.3, I have an old hard drive with Windows 10 installed on it, so I installed it into my PC, but I can't find it, it doesn't show up in GParted or anywhere else, why? does it have to be a blank disk? Help please.
Do I always have to install Linux first before intalling Windows 10 and have it the first boot option? Can the other way be done? Like if I already have Windows 10 installed, can I then install Linux on another drive have have a dual boot with Linux my second option?
Oh I'm running Linux Mint as my main operating system but most people are running Windows 10 and then they install Linux. There are many videos on TH-cam that go over setting up Windows 10 with Linux whereas I'm setting up Linux with Windows 10.
No, it is different and easier to set up linux on a windows system, as the linux install disk+software assumes that windows is already there. See separate videos for installing linux on a windows PC. Taking a backup of everthing still applies to not loose your data.
hi , i already have 2 computers one is pre-installed with Windows 10 and the other old computer pre-installed with Linux mint , i want to take the drive from the Linux computer and insert it in the windows computer that way i can have one computer with 2 drives and 2 system , so only i want to make Dual Boot in one computer how?do i need software for that ?
I'd recommend first making backups and then looking at the many videos on TH-cam that cover dual booting from Windows to Linux. In this case Linux was my primary and then I added Windows whereas for most people, they have Windows and add Linux.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand now my computer have 2 hardisks one with win10 the other with Linux , i use "F8"Key to Boot Menu , but i want windows to be my primary not using F8 ,
You have absolutely no idea how long i've been looking for a guide like this thank you so much. I've been wanting to do this since I want to set up windows 10 just for gaming since gaming on Linux is a little difficult for me personally lol. One question however, would you still recommend I disconnect my main drive even if that drive is a m.2 drive? Also is it possible to still save pictures and videos from the linux ssd to the Windows installed ssd or are they forever separate?
You're welcome! I'd disconnect the m2 drive if you want to make sure there's not a chance it gets overwritten or wiped out. It is possible to access Linux drives from Windows although I'd highly recommend you look over some TH-cam Tutorials on how to do this before trying.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Thanks. Spare 2TB standard drive with Windows (for gaming) and SSD with Linux Mint for my day to day programming work. Now working perfectly, thanks again.
My 2nd hard drive has data on it but 800 GB free. I want to make a partition on that second drive to install Zorin onto. Can I do that? I already dual boot with two windows 10 versions on my 1st hard drive. I can make the partition in windows with Partition Wizard & make it a Linux file system and set it active, no need for me to do that through Zorin.
Thanks. It worked. But suppose I want to install Ubuntu in the same ssd drive as windows, and only transfer / home folder to hdd, how to do it? I just want to boot both OS from ssd, but store all other documents, media etc on hdd. Any suggestions?
That was my exact scenario. I took a chance of leaving it connected especially as it was kind of under the graphics card. It worked without any issues in my case.
Caveat!! Make sure though like I did, that my system was backed up. I used Deja Dup for my files (from Linux Mint Software manager, the FlatPak edition coz the other didn't work to restore for some unknown reason), and TimeShift for the system restore. So even if Windows crapped all over my drive it'd still be ok - just had to start over.
Hey Lee I'm not sure about Windows 10 but I did install a brand new version of Linux Mint so I unplugged all drives, including my Win 10 drive, installed the new version of Linux and then re-attached drives and my dual boot still works. But knowing Windows, this might not work the other way 🤔
Hi man, thanks a lot for the nice video consultation! I have one question: Is there any rule for where to put the respectible bootloader? Does it have to be on the same disk where linux is installed? I would always prefer to not touch the windows bootloader.
Sir, i have installed windows on SSD ....and i have also a 1 TB Hard disk... I've seperated this hard disk into two partitions and installed Kali linux on one of the partitions...but the problem is bios is now only showing SSD for booting as a 1st boot option , not showing any hard disk... please help me sir so that i can easily boot my linux system 😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Superb video. I did exactly as you showed. Both my Linux mint and windows 10 are working fine from their respective SSDs. However, I cannot update the grub so as to show the windows option during boot. OS-prober is not showing my windows installation. Currently I am pressing F8 during boot to choose my OS. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Linux can see and access my windows drive with no issues but not via OS-prober.
That's great Dipan! Unfortunately when I ran into the OS Prober issue, I decided to start over and at least for me that worked but I'm not certain if that'll work for you as well as it could be different issues.
Would it be possible to run Windows from an SSD, have Linux on an NVME drive, and have a third HDD for storage or files, visible from both operating systems? -Sincerely, someone with more than three drives sitting around
The storage drive can be visible from both OS'es, but depending on a few things, Linux might only be able to access it as a read-only station/partition. My current set-up is windows on an M.2 (M.2 SATA, not NVMe), and I'm about to put either Mint or Manjaro onto a regular 224GB SATA SSD once I'm certain that secure boot has been properly beaten into submission. (I've ran Windows and other OS'es as dual-boot in the past, with additional drives for storage that both could access... while I haven't got experience with NVMe, it shouldn't be an issue there, though let's keep in mind that sometimes non-issues turn into issues.)
Excellent guide! I do have an issue though. Probe os fails to find my windows drive for some reason. I have to switch between linux and windows using my bios for now because it doesn't show up in my manjaro bootloader either. Anyone know what the issue is?
Reinstalled windows and that fixed the problem of os-probe not detecting the windows drive. However now when i restart grub gives me a command line prompt, not a selection of operating systems...
You're welcome! At least for me, I did disable secure/fast boot but maybe you can test as well to see if it works and of course hopefully you have backups before anything else.
Geekoutdoors I stuffed my grub 2 -pop os using bleachbit and reinstalling grub was a painful process ... atlast I had to put Ubuntu.. everything is working good now windows 10/ ubuntu side by side
Hi! I have an SSD that I installed a while ago just for games. I don't care about any of the data on that drive, and I'd like to install Ubuntu on it. Do I still need to back up the data on all my drives? Thanks for your help!
@Geekoutdoors Hi, recently did this dual boot successfully thanks to your video, i have a question... I have today updated windows to the 20H2 version via windows update - i disconnected the HDD with Linux beforehand. Will i have to update grub again upon reconnecting the Linux HDD and do i have to disable fast boot on windows again or will windows remember i had disabled fast boot from before the update? Cheers :)
Awesome glad the video helped you! Now as far as I know, if your primary boot drive is your Linux OS, then you won't have to update Grub and for Fast boot, I'd definitely check your Windows settings just to make sure Microsoft didn't reset/change anything. And it goes without saying, but make sure you have backups of all your important data just in case something goes wrong.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand thank you for the reply... Windows settings were as I'd left them, and Linux did an update to the Linux kernal, so it updated grub itself anyway... It's working anyway! - (touch another piece of wood). Your video has definately helped me anyway so thanks again for the easy to follow instructions. :)
As far as I recall, the external is still a drive so you would just treat it like any other drive. And in terms of having Windows and then using Linux, there are many videos on TH-cam going over that whereas my video is focused on a Linux user adding Windows.
I have windows and want to install mint on a new ssd to dual boot, so essentially you just do the same thing right? Unplug my other storages and install Linux from a thumb drive. How would I do this with a m.2 with windows already installed?
you'll have to partition the M2 drive first to add a few 'virtual drives' for Boot (Grub), Swap, Linux. See many other videos for installing Linux on same drive as Windows. If you can, I recommend to install Grub+ Linux on a separate hard drive to your windows, even a new 2.5 SSD sata drive will be plenty fast. Subjective from me I'm just an amateur not an IT traned specialist, dual boot feels more stable when [Grub+Linux] and [Windows] are on separate hard drives; they interfere with each other less when they do major updates to their respective operating systems.
Hello... amazing video. My question is, does it matter if Linux detects the other drive with windows installed and vice versa? Will windows try to use the other drive? Will Linux try to use the other drive?
Hmmmm if you're going to be installing Windows or Linux in the new drive for the first time, I recommend to detach drive as I've done in video and later you can replug to detect for dual boot setup.
Geekoutdoors I’m talking about once I boot both windows and Linux. Linux will detect the other drive, and windows will detect the other drive. Will it matter?
Hey everyone, I've installed Windows 10 on my second hard drive but my GPU and my Wlan Adapter isn't recognized. It doesn't show up in the Win10 device manager but everything works like a charm on my Linux Mint Distro. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
for me, linux(ubuntu 22.04) still didn't recognize the windows boot manager after these steps, I needed to add this command to grub file as well: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
Hi, I built a new pc with an ssd for windows 10 and hdd for data. If I get a separate ssd for linux only, can I block any access/make it invisible to all windows 10 users.
It might cause issues if Windows ins your primary and that's what it's booting from.I'd always recommend you making backups first and there's many videos on TH-cam covering setting up a Windows to Linux dual boot.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand lmao I did this without taking precautions and now I’m stuck on linux and my main ssd with windows isn’t even showing windows boot manager anymore in bios
As of April 2022, it looks like the free download option has disappeared. Microsoft's media utility is now labeled as being for updates. Looks like it is down to changing the boot order to switch between Linux and Windows. Unless I have misunderstood something, which often is the way to bet.
Thanks for the informative video. I got tired of Windows and removed my hard drive out of my laptop and installed Mint 20 on a new hard drive. After a couple of months of enjoying Mint, I now find that I need to use Excel for a certain program. I went through your instructions and the boot page shows up just like you said. I tried plugging my Windows hard drive into the usb C port with an SATA cable. When I tab down to the windows boot, the lights on the cable start flashing but it fails to start up. It recycles and goes back to the Mint boot menu. If I change hard drives out the Windows one will start up and run in my lap top, but not off the USB and dual boot. Any suggestions?
Kind of the same problem im having. Changing my boot order i can either boot from win 10 fine or boot to mint from grub but wont boot to win 10 from grub. Just does automatic repair garbage. Havent tried disabling fastboot or changing CSM yet. Doesnt help my board is an msi b350 shithawk. Ill try a grub update tomorrow.
Hello, thank you for the video, it's awesome! I have a problem! my two systems work perfectly alone. but when I connect the two hard drives and try to boot first into the Linux system, Windows try to install it there. Any thoughts about it? :)
I think I've experienced that before when I dual booted years ago which doesn't surprise me due to Windows. However I've yet to experience this issue myself for the current dual boot setup.
I have Debian based systems on one SSD and Windows 10 on another SSD. You have to go into the Bios and disable fast boot option because Windows 10 doesn't completely clear out. If you use the fast boot option it won't boot into the Linux Grub loader. I tried it with enabling Fast Boot and it was a bust so I disabled Fast Boot and it is back to working fine.
May be a dumb question, but can I install Win 10 from a CD ROM instead of a USB stick? Will that work here, or has to be USB? Just finishing my PC build and have an optical drive so wondering.
Thx! My son has a USB stick with windows on it so I used that as you did in the video, so didn’t have to go the CD route. Great video, appreciate the guidance!
For some reason my Grub boots to command line, not the menu. Have been googling for solutions but no joy :( Any problem if I just hit F10 each boot to select OS??
Not sure myself on why that's happening but if you can get to the Grub menu through F10 then that's cool however I'm probably thinking you want it to automatically show GRUB menu.
Nice tutorial. Would anything be different here if your running Ubuntu 18.04 like I am? I want to add a M.2 ssd for a Windows 10 Pro install in my case.
As far as I know it should work as Linux Mint is an Ubuntu based distro however I haven't tried myself but there are also many great videos for dual boot with Ubuntu on TH-cam if needed.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand In Ubuntu I don't see that ETC directory that you reference for changing up grub. Any idea what the file folder would be in Ubuntu??
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I finally got Windows 10 Pro installed and activated, shutdown PC , replugged in My old Samsung Evo SSD w/Ubuntu and booted into UEFI. There's no Samsung SSD showing up in Boot Priorities just Windows Boot Manager , UEFI: Built-in-EFI Shell and "Disabled" options. I can't find BBS settings in my AsRock UEFI settings. FIY , the Ubuntu Samsung SSD is being detected under Sata Controllers menu along with the new M.2 Corsair I installed.
@@leacwpc No unfortunately I have not yet. I 'm still using the Windows 10 though, have not attempted to reboot Ubuntu yet. Just haven't found a good explanation and solution for finding the Ubuntu SSD drive in the boot up menu. The UEFI is ASRock.
Hello thank you so much for this tutorial. I will apply what you said to my pc but I wanna make sure that what you said works for every Linux distribution.. In my case I want to install on separate hard drive windows 10 and fedora 32. Is the tutorial also valid for this kind of operating systems, I mean is it valid for any kind of Linux distribution ? Thank you I really appreciate if you can reply.
Glad it helped you! I made this video primarily for Linux Mint users and I don't know if it will work for every distro (as there's more than a 100) plus all the countless PC configurations one could have.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand ok thanks. I've seen a lot of video today about this installation... And it came out that every distros or at least the common's one have all of them grub bootloader so, I will try and, if everything goes right, I'll keep you updated! Thanks a lot again!
I have an AMD platform. I have a Windows 10 NVMe drive on my drive, but I also have a second SSD that I want to install Ubuntu on. I created a bootable USB flash drive (with the program - Rufus). I want to install Ubuntu without disturbing the Windows 10 (NVMe) disk structure. // Install Ubuntu - I will change the boot order in UEFI / BIOS. - first it will be SSD and then NVMe. - restart the computer (connect the USB flash drive) - I will install Ubuntu. After installation and reboot, only Ubuntu will start // Start Windows 10 - I'll change the boot order back - first NVMe then SSD and Windows 10 won't show anything related to Ubuntu? And when it wants to boot Ubuntu, I will hit F12 while my computer boots up and choose the SSD. I think right?
Hi, I have my Win 10 on NVm drive. Now I want linux mint on a separate ssd. Also I want my first boot from Win10. How would I do that. Can you please specify any changes in that case or if you have any video related to that. Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure on NVM drive as I don't have one yet. But I'm wondering I'm you can change drive boot order in Bios as you would with any other type of drive.
I've been a linux dual boot user since 92. Linux 99% of the time. I'm getting ready to install Win 10 to replace the ancient win 7. I want the two SSD hard drives I'm currently using. Can I simply disable the linux hard drive in the Bios, install win 10, re enable linux hard drive, update grub (or select which to boot in the initial bios screen on start up). I know it is safer to disconnect, install, and reconnect, but I wanted to ask.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I did this today, and most excellent! FYI: I had Debian 10 on one SSD (because Unbuntu and other 20.04 Debian derivatives will not work with the Nvidia Quadro 4000 card with out crashing randomly). I have a new AMD Radeon based GPU card on the way, goodbye Nvidia. I went into the Bios and turned off the Debian SATA. I installed Win10 to a second SSD. Rehooked up the Debian SATA SDD in the Bios. and it went well. Note: I had installed the Debian MBR on the Linux SSD (/dev/sdb1) and not on the Win10 SSD (/dev/sda1). I had to edit some /etc/grub config files and update-grub2 before it would recognize the Win10 drive. All this started because Ubuntu, that I've been running for years, updated to 20.04 and reeked havoc with the Nvidia GPU. It was also an excellent time to upgrade Win7 to Win10 that I occasionally log into about .05% of the time. PS: I love my vintage 30" Apple Cinema Display monitor, but most of this had to be done on an Apple Cinema Display 23" monitor. When the new Radeon gets here it will be back to the 30" Cinema Display.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrandDon't know yet as I haven't tried anything yet with installing Windows. I have just created a windows 10 iso file boot USB , just have to install new M.2 SSD for the Windows 10 install
It does change so I'd recommend looking for Windows dual boot there's many videos on TH-cam on this as most people use Windows as their main OS versus mine where I use Linux as my primary.
I tried the same thing with a dual caddy called an Icy Dock, windows boot everytime linux is having trouble, linux mint couldnt find grub, debain just flashes even though there should not be any boot loader conflict, any ideas?
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand i found an old efi sector on another drive, maybe that was messing things up i hope anyway, unless i have a bad drive. I have a smaller drive with kali linux on it and that works fine so I'm not sure
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand That's what i did..twice. still no luck. :( I also figured while reinstalling linux, that there is only 1 HDD to choose from. the other one that has windows on it is not even visible. :( WTF
it's better to install a linux distribution on a hdd systems based on the linux kernel are not as complex as windows also i was searching for doing this with linux instead
Hey. I have installed Windows 10, and now when I boot it shows me the error "Couldn't localize Windows\system32\winload.efi". How I fix it? Thanks for helping me
I tried woe USB and couldn't find the program. How do I find and remove whatever it is that I did in the terminal. I'm hoping I didn't get a bad program in my system.
I installed sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 Then Sudo apt update Then Sudo apt install woeusb But afterwards could not find it in admin. Is it somewhere im not looking? Could it be malicious?
Not sure about M.2 drive as I don't have one yet but I'm pretty sure it'll work but you might want to look on TH-cam to see how people do this with this drive just in case.
Do You Dual Boot Windows and Linux? Or Triple Boot Apple, Windows And Linux Or Multi-Boot Many Operating Systems?
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Sweet 👍 I use Macs as well and great overall user experience.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I am working to create a dual booth on separate drives of windows 7 and Linux Mint 19.3 but when I do the command in the terminal (8:00) nothing comes up it just goes back to the $. I checked the connection and the computer is booting into windows ok, and when I type drives in linux and it goes to the drives box the windows hard drive is listed. I don't understand why it won't show up in the terminal. Any ideas on how to get the dual boot to work?
Can I use the same approach for Ubuntu instead of Linux mint
this guy doesn't know what HARD drive is? :dd
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I use multiboot, windows 10, LMDE, Ubuntu, Elementary, Zorin, Mx Linux. Just started fresh about 2 weeks ago. its been years since i had a computer. I was given a crusty shell and slowly upgraded it with parts the past few months, all i need now is a good graphics card and im TURBO.
Thank you very much for this video. I just followed your instructions (same MB vendor but with two NVME SSDs and an existing Manjaro installation on a password protected NVME SSD) and everything is perfect right now and it was so easy to setup (even the grub update which is the best thing about the whole dual booting solution). Really nice and simple tutorial!
That's awesome Niklas glad this worked out for you even with Manjaro installation vs Linux Mint.
Very informative video, followed it step by step and got the setup done. Keep it up. I used it for Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20, and worked flawlessly.
Awesome glad this worked for you!
Excellent video. I am getting ready to install Linux on a separate SSD on my laptop. My laptop came pre-installed with Windows 10 but I want to have Linux available to do a lot of my work in. Thanks.
Glad the video helped you! That's awesome that you have 2 drives on your Laptop. That's what I'm doing on my next Laptop so I can dual boot as well.
Looking to do this on a really old Lenovo Thinkpad T400s that a friend gave me to fool around with. Did you do it by installing a second drive in place of the DVD drive? That is what I am going to try.
you made that so easy. i cant believe i paid a guy to do that and he damaged my shell
You're very welcome and wow that sucks! $$$
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Having just spent a few days desperately trying to get ANY operating system to work on what used to be a Windows-only machine, let me add a few things...
1. Windows install medium; a USB stick will be your friend, but I've also managed to use an internal SSD (or rather, a bootable partition on it) as install medium; this is now my "in case of major screw-up that incolves re-installing Windows, break glass" SSD.
2a. I haven't seen the full video yet, started my comment early, so there is a good chanche that you've actually touched on the matter already, but let me stress: Disable fast boot, disable secure boot. Secure boot might actually manage to re-enable itself on each re-boot, just keep disabling it.
2b. You (a "general" you, not aimed at anyone specific) might have opted to install a (first/second/third/whatevereth) OS which actually supports secure boot; Ubuntu and its derivatives (Mint, among others) are among those... in this case, prior to venturing into installing that OS, DISABLE FAST BOOT, DISABLE SECURE BOOT, DISABLE THAT CRAP BEFORE IT vIOLENTLY TRIES TO MAKE BABIES WITH YOUR HARDWARE!!!!
On points 2a and 2b, trust me, disable secure boot... and check with a flamethrower afterwards.
I found out the hard way that secure boot really is nothing more than a secure pain in the bunghole.
Tried Manjaro (where it even messed up my abilty to run the live version from USB), Mint, Ubuntu, (an old version of) Xubuntu, Wayne OS (billed as a Chrome-like OS from wht I gathered, but secure boot wouldn't let me try it out), and ReactOS before managing to get the Manjaro live USB to work around secure boot and managing to turn a 112G SSD into the install medium for the Windows 10 ISO.
Also, over these last few days I became an alcoholic.
Or, more of one than I might already have been, depending on how one looks at it.... either way, whiskey is now part of my regimen regardless if it's 05:35AM or 14:15PM.... thanks, secure boot....
Yup Secure Boot can be a big problem! I've ran into similar issues in the past so most of the times I had to go into my BIOS to turn it off if I had problems with install.
Thanks so much for mentioning DISABLE FAST BOOT. I had Windows 10 installed on an SSD drive and it ran perfectly until I hooked up the linux drive and tried to boot from grub. Windows 10 then ran like molasses. Saw your post and disabled fast boot and Windows 10 now runs perfectly when starting it from the Grub menu. Endless thanks!!!
Bro, Thanks to you I finally solved the "dual-boot two separate internal drive issue." It took me only 10 minutes to do. I'm a first time viewer, I "liked" and subscribed to your channel. I am going to your channel to see if I can now partition the windows drive for Linux file storage and backup. The windows drive is 2tb HDD and the Linux Mint 21 drive is 1tb SSD. Thanks again for keeping it simple.
Awesome really happy this helped as I was also concerned before doing this dual boot as I had issues in the past but so far things are good 😁
Thank you so much! I have been searching for 2 days to get my computer to do this and your instructions were pin point perfect!
Sure thing Brian glad this video helped you to save a few more days of searching 😁
Thank you for this video. Did all of this yesterday, and everything went almost exactly like you showed. I am running Ubuntu 21.10 so the GRUB edits varied a little. That's it. Everything is running smoothly so far.
Awesome glad this helped and is working for you! 💯
Hi, I just did this on my computer, following all your indications. It is working just perfect, only had to modify de Windows registry in order to have te same date and time on both systems. Tomorrow I'll start to install the software I need on Windows, I haven't used Windows from more than a year ago. Thank you very much for your video. Cheers!!!
That's awesome it worked out for you!
Thank you so much! I wasn't sure if GRUB is able to correctly boot Windows from another drive. I'm glad to finally find a demo.
Awesome you're most welcome!
Nice, concise tutorial. I added linux mint 20.1 to my win 10 pro desktop. Works flawlessly thanks to your instructions. Cheers!
Awesome Paul glad that worked out for you!
Excellent information for dual boot problems and watching this video saved my precious time and money.I did the same thing and my computer started functioning like a new one.Thanks for sharing this video.
Awesome glad this helped you out and the dual boot is working!
THANK YOU SIR! I was trying to dual boot windows 10 + linux mint mate for the last 5 days and spent 5 hours a day but nothing worked then i stumbled upon your tutorial! Thanks.
Awesome glad this helped you to dual boot Linux/Windows😁
Great video! Could never get Linux to create a bootable drive so created a bootable on a windows os using the windows updater program. Everything else worked great. Removed the drive with Linux from my Toshiba p875 laptop. Installed the 500g wd blue drive and loaded windows 10 pro. Followed instructions precisely disabling fast restart in windows, prioritize the linux drive, updated the grub and works flawlessly. Thank you!
That's awesome super happy this video helped you in some way!
Great video - thanks for the guide - helped a lot. I'm in the same boat - I use linux mint for mostly everything but need windows for one or two programs that don't run on linux yet ;-)
I was able to get the win10 usb created without woeusb - just formatted the usb in NTFS and copied the ISO contents over and it worked. Thanks again!
Awesome glad that worked out for you!
I saw a lot of videos for this problem but never work for me but your video works fine thanks alot
Thx Joseph glad this helped you!
Will this work the same for a ( triple boot ) with a Msata in the wwan slot for the third hard drive in a laptop. Any reply would be helpful, thanks. Great info over, good video.
You're most welcome! Not sure on Triple Boot as I've never had that setup myself.
- Thanks for video on your simple approack to setting up windows on a Linux PC. I've done 2 installs of Linux on windows PC, but I never did windows on a linux PC which looked harder from other videos involving fiddling around with code.
- I like your approach for installing Windows on a linux PC. Also having [Grub+linux] and [Windows] on two separate drives I think creates less conflicts and boot up problems compared to if they are on the same partioned hard drive. Now it as though I have 2 PCs in one; A linux PC and Windows one.
- Using your approach I installed Windows 10 Pro on the second M2 drive on the Pcie 2.0 slot on the MSI B450 Mortar Max Mobo. I heard issues that the second M2 slot does not work for booting, but I had no issues, booted straight up. Now I have a super fast Windows Pcie 2.0 drive.
- Oh watch out! many of second M2 slots are Pcie only, i.e. it will not support the many (cheaper) SATA M2 drives out there. You must buy a NvME Pcie drive. Pcie 3.0 should fine it s backwards compatible with Pcie 2.0, my M2 pcie 3.0 worked in the B450 Pcie 2.0 slot.
- Only issue I had was creating the Windows ISO USB stick from the Windows website. On an Asus dual boot laptop I kept geting an error message in the creat ISO part. Luckily I had an old Windows ISO stick from a Windows Key code supplier. It was in French, but Windows 10 now allows you to switch the language after install no problem. I just had to purchase a new Windows activation Key Code for this new Windows install.
- Other comments here on disabling secure boot important of course.
Wow that's awesome and I'm glad you were able to get it working on M2 drive as I don't have one yet😁
Fantastic! You make my day! I 've always issuesn on this ! TXS!
Awesome glad it helped you!
Just wanted to say thank you for this video, i have followed your instructions and "touch wood" it has all worked the way the video suggests.
You're very welcome and I'm happy that this helped you 👍
If after you enter the command sudo os-prober, nothing show up you might wanna search for "covert BIOS mode to UEFI" and look for a good tutorial about it.
Sweet thx for the tip!
underrated comment! thank you for this.
Awesome tutorial , i've used it to setup dual boot on a old pc with windows vista and unbuntu 16.04 LTS .
Thank you very very much
Awesome glad this worked for you Jerome!
Hi, thanks for the great video. I have one question, I'm use Windows as my main OS with several hard drives and i want to install Linux on a new one. But I want the extra hard drives only to be visible from my Windows OS. So i have Linux with only one drive visible, and Windows with the rest of my drives. Could I do this my just leaving fast startup in Windows enabled? Or is there a way to hide the drives in Linux/not even adding them?
Thx much for watching! I'm pretty sure you can hide or not mount drives in Linux however I don't remember how to do that.
I would replace the #. where you see hidden, replace that with show. I think # just nulls that line. But thank you for the step by step! :)
Cool thx much for the tip! And yes # does null the line.
Thanks for the easy to understand way in which you explained the steps. I have windows 10 installed and working ok. Linux mint 20.3 is installed on my second drive. I however do not see the Linux drive listed in the BIOS boot order and there is no "Setting" option to locate "Boot" and "UEFI drive BBS priorities". What should I do?
That's great to hear! I'm not certain why you're not seeing it as that's what I see in my motherboard BIOS settings so maybe yours might be different but if it's the same , then definitely don't know why 🤔
Small gotcha! Windows 10 can boot quickly and you will not be able to hit 'delete' or 'F2' key to get into the BIOS after install to reconfigure the boot sequence. If this happens, run Windows, choose Window (Start) button, choose Power and then, while holding down shift key, choose restart. After a moment, this brings you to a menu. Choose 'Use a device' and you should see and option to boot from Window, A bootable USB key, or Ubuntu/Mint if you have that already on your hard drive. Choose 'Ubuntu' to boot into Linux and then you can make the changes to grub suggested in the video to continue your dual boot journey :)
Awesome thx so much for these additional tips👍
Crear video dude, i hace looking for this for a while and your tutorial explaining all !!! New suscriber!!! Thanks you
Awesome I'm glad this video helped you!
Hi..thanks for the tutorial...is it the same steps for centos7? Pls advise. Thanks
Not sure as I've never used Centos but I'm assuming if it works like most Linux Distros, then it should work similarly.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Thanks
Thank you for your tutorials, it helps!
You're most welcome I really appreciate it!
Why install it inside the case? I use the external hard drive as a USB. I have a question though. Since I plan to use the hard drive only for Linux, can I just skip the partitions part. I hate that and often get confused with it.
Depends many ways to use this for your use case. Whatever works best 🐧
Would love to try this on my laptop with windows ssd and blank hdd. Do I need to disconnect internally my hdd my laptop before I install LM 20.2? Or i can install directly to my hdd and make hdd LM 20.2 my 1st priority boot. Thanks.
I haven't done this on a laptop so I'm not sure what the next route would be.
Can Grub be set to default to Windows after the time delay the menu is set for? That is automatically go to windows so that default is windows but linux is an option
Hmmm I thinking it could be set to Windows although I don't recall how to edit Grub file to initiate this however I'm sure there are other tutorials or sites which can show you how to do this.
Interesting video, thanks. But, I am having trouble understanding a problem with this, I have a PC running Linux Mint Tricia 19.3, I have an old hard drive with Windows 10 installed on it, so I installed it into my PC, but I can't find it, it doesn't show up in GParted or anywhere else, why? does it have to be a blank disk? Help please.
Not really sure myself as everyone's machine, configuration and setup is different.
Do I always have to install Linux first before intalling Windows 10 and have it the first boot option? Can the other way be done? Like if I already have Windows 10 installed, can I then install Linux on another drive have have a dual boot with Linux my second option?
Oh I'm running Linux Mint as my main operating system but most people are running Windows 10 and then they install Linux. There are many videos on TH-cam that go over setting up Windows 10 with Linux whereas I'm setting up Linux with Windows 10.
No, it is different and easier to set up linux on a windows system, as the linux install disk+software assumes that windows is already there. See separate videos for installing linux on a windows PC. Taking a backup of everthing still applies to not loose your data.
hi , i already have 2 computers one is pre-installed with Windows 10 and the other old computer pre-installed with Linux mint , i want to take the drive from the Linux computer and insert it in the windows computer that way i can have one computer with 2 drives and 2 system , so only i want to make Dual Boot in one computer how?do i need software for that ?
I'd recommend first making backups and then looking at the many videos on TH-cam that cover dual booting from Windows to Linux. In this case Linux was my primary and then I added Windows whereas for most people, they have Windows and add Linux.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand now my computer have 2 hardisks one with win10 the other with Linux , i use "F8"Key to Boot Menu , but i want windows to be my primary not using F8 ,
You have absolutely no idea how long i've been looking for a guide like this thank you so much. I've been wanting to do this since I want to set up windows 10 just for gaming since gaming on Linux is a little difficult for me personally lol. One question however, would you still recommend I disconnect my main drive even if that drive is a m.2 drive? Also is it possible to still save pictures and videos from the linux ssd to the Windows installed ssd or are they forever separate?
You're welcome! I'd disconnect the m2 drive if you want to make sure there's not a chance it gets overwritten or wiped out. It is possible to access Linux drives from Windows although I'd highly recommend you look over some TH-cam Tutorials on how to do this before trying.
Geekoutdoors I just did it and the dual boot is working. I literally can’t thank you enough for this guide you made!!
Fantastic, thanks. Just about to do this and this video is very helpful.
Awesome glad this helped you!
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Thanks. Spare 2TB standard drive with Windows (for gaming) and SSD with Linux Mint for my day to day programming work. Now working perfectly, thanks again.
My 2nd hard drive has data on it but 800 GB free. I want to make a partition on that second drive to install Zorin onto. Can I do that? I already dual boot with two windows 10 versions on my 1st hard drive. I can make the partition in windows with Partition Wizard & make it a Linux file system and set it active, no need for me to do that through Zorin.
I'm pretty sure you can however that's way more complex than the simple setup I have on my PC.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand O.k. Thanks. I'll keep digging .
Thanks. It worked. But suppose I want to install Ubuntu in the same ssd drive as windows, and only transfer / home folder to hdd, how to do it?
I just want to boot both OS from ssd, but store all other documents, media etc on hdd. Any suggestions?
I'd recommend looking at the many other great TH-cam videos that cover this situation or similar as I don't have that setup for my computer.
Great video! But I have one question, what if the Linux OS is installed on an M.2 SSD? Should it be removed or is there another way?
Not sure as a M.2 drive is my next upgrade.
That was my exact scenario. I took a chance of leaving it connected especially as it was kind of under the graphics card. It worked without any issues in my case.
Caveat!! Make sure though like I did, that my system was backed up. I used Deja Dup for my files (from Linux Mint Software manager, the FlatPak edition coz the other didn't work to restore for some unknown reason), and TimeShift for the system restore. So even if Windows crapped all over my drive it'd still be ok - just had to start over.
is the process the same when we need to reload windows 10 and dual boot has already been setup previous on two separate drives?
Hey Lee I'm not sure about Windows 10 but I did install a brand new version of Linux Mint so I unplugged all drives, including my Win 10 drive, installed the new version of Linux and then re-attached drives and my dual boot still works. But knowing Windows, this might not work the other way 🤔
Hi man, thanks a lot for the nice video consultation! I have one question: Is there any rule for where to put the respectible bootloader? Does it have to be on the same disk where linux is installed? I would always prefer to not touch the windows bootloader.
Sure thing Tobias glad it helped you! I don't have any rule as I rarely do this setup and If I recall the Windows Bootloader is on my Windows disk.
Great Video. Can I do it if I have 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology' on the computer?
You're welcome! I'm not sure myself for Intel Rapid Storage.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Thank You for the reply. Cheers
Sir, i have installed windows on SSD ....and i have also a 1 TB Hard disk... I've seperated this hard disk into two partitions and installed Kali linux on one of the partitions...but the problem is bios is now only showing SSD for booting as a 1st boot option , not showing any hard disk... please help me sir so that i can easily boot my linux system 😢🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Hmmm not sure myself 🤔
is this still up to date? I have manjaro installed and about the buy an ssd for a separate windows space to dual boot from. great video btw :)
Thx much! And I'm not sure if this will work for every Distro or if there's been changes since then as I haven't done any more Dual Boot setups.
You are a life saver brother. Thanks
Sure thing glad this helped!
Superb video. I did exactly as you showed. Both my Linux mint and windows 10 are working fine from their respective SSDs. However, I cannot update the grub so as to show the windows option during boot. OS-prober is not showing my windows installation. Currently I am pressing F8 during boot to choose my OS. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Linux can see and access my windows drive with no issues but not via OS-prober.
That's great Dipan! Unfortunately when I ran into the OS Prober issue, I decided to start over and at least for me that worked but I'm not certain if that'll work for you as well as it could be different issues.
Hey this is a great video thanks for doing this helps a lot , very well done !
Sure thing glad it helped!
Will the same process work with Windows 8.1 and Manjaro KDE 20? I have Windows 8.1 on one hdd and I want to put Manjaro KDE 20 on my second hdd.
Well not sure as I don't have that setup plus in my video, I'm using Linux Mint as my main OS and then adding Windows 10.
thankyou for the video, it was very helpful.
You're most welcome Alex!
Would it be possible to run Windows from an SSD, have Linux on an NVME drive, and have a third HDD for storage or files, visible from both operating systems? -Sincerely, someone with more than three drives sitting around
I haven't yet used a NVME drive, that will be my next upgrade, so I don't really have any feedback for now.
The storage drive can be visible from both OS'es, but depending on a few things, Linux might only be able to access it as a read-only station/partition.
My current set-up is windows on an M.2 (M.2 SATA, not NVMe), and I'm about to put either Mint or Manjaro onto a regular 224GB SATA SSD once I'm certain that secure boot has been properly beaten into submission.
(I've ran Windows and other OS'es as dual-boot in the past, with additional drives for storage that both could access... while I haven't got experience with NVMe, it shouldn't be an issue there, though let's keep in mind that sometimes non-issues turn into issues.)
Excellent guide! I do have an issue though. Probe os fails to find my windows drive for some reason. I have to switch between linux and windows using my bios for now because it doesn't show up in my manjaro bootloader either. Anyone know what the issue is?
Reinstalled windows and that fixed the problem of os-probe not detecting the windows drive. However now when i restart grub gives me a command line prompt, not a selection of operating systems...
Kk fixed everything by using something called rescatux
Awesome glad you figured it out as at least for me Windows re-installation worked which you already tried.
Best video on the internet clearer than crystal, hey do i have to change secure boot to other os and should i disable fast boot ?
You're welcome! At least for me, I did disable secure/fast boot but maybe you can test as well to see if it works and of course hopefully you have backups before anything else.
How to display the grub menu once you start ? In my case it straight goes to Linux hdd
On booth you could try holding ESC key.
Geekoutdoors I stuffed my grub 2 -pop os using bleachbit and reinstalling grub was a painful process ... atlast I had to put Ubuntu.. everything is working good now windows 10/ ubuntu side by side
Hi! I have an SSD that I installed a while ago just for games. I don't care about any of the data on that drive, and I'd like to install Ubuntu on it. Do I still need to back up the data on all my drives? Thanks for your help!
It's up to you but if the data isn't important, then you can use that drive for whatever you want.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Thanks. Would there be a risk to my other drives?
@Geekoutdoors
Hi, recently did this dual boot successfully thanks to your video, i have a question...
I have today updated windows to the 20H2 version via windows update - i disconnected the HDD with Linux beforehand.
Will i have to update grub again upon reconnecting the Linux HDD and do i have to disable fast boot on windows again or will windows remember i had disabled fast boot from before the update?
Cheers :)
Awesome glad the video helped you! Now as far as I know, if your primary boot drive is your Linux OS, then you won't have to update Grub and for Fast boot, I'd definitely check your Windows settings just to make sure Microsoft didn't reset/change anything. And it goes without saying, but make sure you have backups of all your important data just in case something goes wrong.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand thank you for the reply...
Windows settings were as I'd left them, and Linux did an update to the Linux kernal, so it updated grub itself anyway...
It's working anyway! - (touch another piece of wood).
Your video has definately helped me anyway so thanks again for the easy to follow instructions. :)
How does this change if you have a windows machine and you want to install Linux on an external hard drive? :)
As far as I recall, the external is still a drive so you would just treat it like any other drive. And in terms of having Windows and then using Linux, there are many videos on TH-cam going over that whereas my video is focused on a Linux user adding Windows.
I have windows and want to install mint on a new ssd to dual boot, so essentially you just do the same thing right? Unplug my other storages and install Linux from a thumb drive. How would I do this with a m.2 with windows already installed?
The basics are similar however I don't have a m.2 drive (at least not yet) so I'm not sure if this would work 100% for your situation.
you'll have to partition the M2 drive first to add a few 'virtual drives' for Boot (Grub), Swap, Linux. See many other videos for installing Linux on same drive as Windows. If you can, I recommend to install Grub+ Linux on a separate hard drive to your windows, even a new 2.5 SSD sata drive will be plenty fast.
Subjective from me I'm just an amateur not an IT traned specialist, dual boot feels more stable when [Grub+Linux] and [Windows] are on separate hard drives; they interfere with each other less when they do major updates to their respective operating systems.
Hello... amazing video. My question is, does it matter if Linux detects the other drive with windows installed and vice versa? Will windows try to use the other drive? Will Linux try to use the other drive?
Hmmmm if you're going to be installing Windows or Linux in the new drive for the first time, I recommend to detach drive as I've done in video and later you can replug to detect for dual boot setup.
Geekoutdoors I’m talking about once I boot both windows and Linux. Linux will detect the other drive, and windows will detect the other drive. Will it matter?
Hey everyone,
I've installed Windows 10 on my second hard drive but my GPU and my Wlan Adapter isn't recognized. It doesn't show up in the Win10 device manager but everything works like a charm on my Linux Mint Distro. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
Neal McBeal instal the drivers
My fdisk -l sees the windows but not os prober. Pop os is the first drive followed by windows. Would making the grub menu anyway hurt anything?
Not sure myself 🤔
Same here. Did u ever figure it out?
@@inpeesea2630 I went back to manjaro and it was already configured.
for me, linux(ubuntu 22.04) still didn't recognize the windows boot manager after these steps, I needed to add this command to grub file as well: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false
Oh wow you had to Disable OS Prober?
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand yes, without that command, grub didn't show windows in the menu. so weird
Hi, I built a new pc with an ssd for windows 10 and hdd for data. If I get a separate ssd for linux only, can I block any access/make it invisible to all windows 10 users.
On my Windows hard drive, I can't see my Linux Hard drives without some additional adjustments.
With the unplugging of the sata cables, does it matter if I'm going from windows TO linux? I'm kinda scared of going inside the pc and doing stuff
It might cause issues if Windows ins your primary and that's what it's booting from.I'd always recommend you making backups first and there's many videos on TH-cam covering setting up a Windows to Linux dual boot.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand lmao I did this without taking precautions and now I’m stuck on linux and my main ssd with windows isn’t even showing windows boot manager anymore in bios
Great stuff as always!
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As of April 2022, it looks like the free download option has disappeared. Microsoft's media utility is now labeled as being for updates. Looks like it is down to changing the boot order to switch between Linux and Windows. Unless I have misunderstood something, which often is the way to bet.
Ohhhh Microsoft....💩
Thank you work so well!!
You're most welcome glad this helped 👍
Thanks for the informative video. I got tired of Windows and removed my hard drive out of my laptop and installed Mint 20 on a new hard drive. After a couple of months of enjoying Mint,
I now find that I need to use Excel for a certain program. I went through your instructions and the boot page shows up just like you said. I tried plugging my Windows hard drive into the usb C port with an SATA cable. When I tab down to the windows boot, the lights on the cable start flashing but it fails to start up. It recycles and goes back to the Mint boot menu. If I change hard drives out the Windows one will start up and run in my lap top, but not off the USB and dual boot. Any suggestions?
Oh crap that sucks you're having that problem and unfortunately I'm not sure of a solution.
Kind of the same problem im having. Changing my boot order i can either boot from win 10 fine or boot to mint from grub but wont boot to win 10 from grub. Just does automatic repair garbage. Havent tried disabling fastboot or changing CSM yet. Doesnt help my board is an msi b350 shithawk. Ill try a grub update tomorrow.
Hello, thank you for the video, it's awesome!
I have a problem! my two systems work perfectly alone. but when I connect the two hard drives and try to boot first into the Linux system, Windows try to install it there.
Any thoughts about it? :)
I think I've experienced that before when I dual booted years ago which doesn't surprise me due to Windows. However I've yet to experience this issue myself for the current dual boot setup.
I have Debian based systems on one SSD and Windows 10 on another SSD. You have to go into the Bios and disable fast boot option because Windows 10 doesn't completely clear out. If you use the fast boot option it won't boot into the Linux Grub loader. I tried it with enabling Fast Boot and it was a bust so I disabled Fast Boot and it is back to working fine.
May be a dumb question, but can I install Win 10 from a CD ROM instead of a USB stick? Will that work here, or has to be USB? Just finishing my PC build and have an optical drive so wondering.
You can but you'll need to burn your ISO file in CD/DVD first. There are many tutorials on TH-cam that show you how to do this if needed.
Thx! My son has a USB stick with windows on it so I used that as you did in the video, so didn’t have to go the CD route. Great video, appreciate the guidance!
For some reason my Grub boots to command line, not the menu. Have been googling for solutions but no joy :( Any problem if I just hit F10 each boot to select OS??
Not sure myself on why that's happening but if you can get to the Grub menu through F10 then that's cool however I'm probably thinking you want it to automatically show GRUB menu.
Thanks man! Amazing job you rock!
Thx much and glad this video helped you out!
Thanks man! This was perfect!
Great glad this helped you!
Nice tutorial. Would anything be different here if your running Ubuntu 18.04 like I am? I want to add a M.2 ssd for a Windows 10 Pro install in my case.
As far as I know it should work as Linux Mint is an Ubuntu based distro however I haven't tried myself but there are also many great videos for dual boot with Ubuntu on TH-cam if needed.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand In Ubuntu I don't see that ETC directory that you reference for changing up grub. Any idea what the file folder would be in Ubuntu??
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I finally got Windows 10 Pro installed and activated, shutdown PC , replugged in My old Samsung Evo SSD w/Ubuntu and booted into UEFI. There's no Samsung SSD showing up in Boot Priorities just Windows Boot Manager , UEFI: Built-in-EFI Shell and "Disabled" options. I can't find BBS settings in my AsRock UEFI settings. FIY , the Ubuntu Samsung SSD is being detected under Sata Controllers menu along with the new M.2 Corsair I installed.
@@brandofalcon were you able to fix it?
@@leacwpc No unfortunately I have not yet. I 'm still using the Windows 10 though, have not attempted to reboot Ubuntu yet. Just haven't found a good explanation and solution for finding the Ubuntu SSD drive in the boot up menu. The UEFI is ASRock.
Hello thank you so much for this tutorial. I will apply what you said to my pc but I wanna make sure that what you said works for every Linux distribution..
In my case I want to install on separate hard drive windows 10 and fedora 32. Is the tutorial also valid for this kind of operating systems, I mean is it valid for any kind of Linux distribution ?
Thank you I really appreciate if you can reply.
Glad it helped you! I made this video primarily for Linux Mint users and I don't know if it will work for every distro (as there's more than a 100) plus all the countless PC configurations one could have.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand ok thanks.
I've seen a lot of video today about this installation... And it came out that every distros or at least the common's one have all of them grub bootloader so, I will try and, if everything goes right, I'll keep you updated!
Thanks a lot again!
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I have an AMD platform.
I have a Windows 10 NVMe drive on my drive, but I also have a second SSD that I want to install Ubuntu on.
I created a bootable USB flash drive (with the program - Rufus).
I want to install Ubuntu without disturbing the Windows 10 (NVMe) disk structure.
// Install Ubuntu
- I will change the boot order in UEFI / BIOS.
- first it will be SSD and then NVMe.
- restart the computer (connect the USB flash drive)
- I will install Ubuntu.
After installation and reboot, only Ubuntu will start
// Start Windows 10
- I'll change the boot order back - first NVMe then SSD and Windows 10 won't show anything related to Ubuntu?
And when it wants to boot Ubuntu, I will hit F12 while my computer boots up and choose the SSD.
I think right?
Sounds right however I don't have a NVME drive (next upgrade) so I can't say for sure if this will work 100%
Hi, I have my Win 10 on NVm drive. Now I want linux mint on a separate ssd. Also I want my first boot from Win10. How would I do that. Can you please specify any changes in that case or if you have any video related to that. Thanks in advance.
I'm not sure on NVM drive as I don't have one yet. But I'm wondering I'm you can change drive boot order in Bios as you would with any other type of drive.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Tried that. Didn't work.
I've been a linux dual boot user since 92. Linux 99% of the time. I'm getting ready to install Win 10 to replace the ancient win 7. I want the two SSD hard drives I'm currently using. Can I simply disable the linux hard drive in the Bios, install win 10, re enable linux hard drive, update grub (or select which to boot in the initial bios screen on start up). I know it is safer to disconnect, install, and reconnect, but I wanted to ask.
I'm guessing you could but I've not tried this myself.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand I did this today, and most excellent! FYI: I had Debian 10 on one SSD (because Unbuntu and other 20.04 Debian derivatives will not work with the Nvidia Quadro 4000 card with out crashing randomly). I have a new AMD Radeon based GPU card on the way, goodbye Nvidia. I went into the Bios and turned off the Debian SATA. I installed Win10 to a second SSD. Rehooked up the Debian SATA SDD in the Bios. and it went well. Note: I had installed the Debian MBR on the Linux SSD (/dev/sdb1) and not on the Win10 SSD (/dev/sda1). I had to edit some /etc/grub config files and update-grub2 before it would recognize the Win10 drive. All this started because Ubuntu, that I've been running for years, updated to 20.04 and reeked havoc with the Nvidia GPU. It was also an excellent time to upgrade Win7 to Win10 that I occasionally log into about .05% of the time. PS: I love my vintage 30" Apple Cinema Display monitor, but most of this had to be done on an Apple Cinema Display 23" monitor. When the new Radeon gets here it will be back to the 30" Cinema Display.
When you were installing Windows 10 on the 500GB SSD it showed as 23.4GB in the installer, why is that?
Hmmm I think because it was showing the partitions that Windows will setup.
Thank you for this! Also, is that the Isle of Skye as your background?
No prob! I'm not sure on background as it's one of the default wallpapers.
Yosemite National Park in California. From a part of the park called "Tunnel view".
Great video!
Thx much Brian!
In the GRUB GUI update section, I noticed when clicking on the DEFAULT folder that I didn't have a "open as root" option. Is that a problem?
Hmmm that's odd. Were you able to maybe edit file through command line? I opened up file to edit in video as well through command line as an example.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrandDon't know yet as I haven't tried anything yet with installing Windows. I have just created a windows 10 iso file boot USB , just have to install new M.2 SSD for the Windows 10 install
It's work for me on manjaro also
THANKS ALOT MAN 👍
You're very welcome and Manjaro is sweet!
Does this still work or is there an update grub gui ?
I'm on the latest version of Linux Mint 20.1 with Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic (x86_64) including grub updates and no issues so far.
Does it makes the System slow. Or affects performance
For me, it doesn't affect performance as it's on a separate hard drive (SSD).
Does that change if I wanted to use Windows and Linux?
Would I need to change something?
It does change so I'd recommend looking for Windows dual boot there's many videos on TH-cam on this as most people use Windows as their main OS versus mine where I use Linux as my primary.
Thanks mate. Will check it out.
I tried the same thing with a dual caddy called an Icy Dock, windows boot everytime linux is having trouble, linux mint couldnt find grub, debain just flashes even though there should not be any boot loader conflict, any ideas?
Oh man unfortunately not sure myself.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand i found an old efi sector on another drive, maybe that was messing things up i hope anyway, unless i have a bad drive. I have a smaller drive with kali linux on it and that works fine so I'm not sure
how would I go about removing windows from grub menu?
Edit the GRUB file and remove it. So basically the reverse of what I'd did in this video.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand Okay thank you
Thanks man, you are Awesome!!!
You're very welcome Gabriel!
What if u just want to make a different partition in one physical drive?
I don't have a video on that however there are many great tutorials on TH-cam.
For some reason “Sudo os-prober” says command not found …..I don’t know why else to do
Not sure myself Arnold 🤔
Try sudo, not Sudo
hi, when is run os-probe i can't see windows. :(
I installed linux in a partition on another HDD and followed your instructions..
I ran into that problem initially and I couldn't figure it out so I just re-installed Windows again and then afterwards, OS-Probe saw it
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand That's what i did..twice. still no luck. :( I also figured while reinstalling linux, that there is only 1 HDD to choose from. the other one that has windows on it is not even visible. :( WTF
Great vídeo! Thanks a lot!
Sure thing glad it helped you!
it's better to install a linux distribution on a hdd
systems based on the linux kernel are not as complex as windows
also i was searching for doing this with linux instead
Depends on your needs and there should be many videos on TH-cam on how to install Linux with different options.
I backup all my data on seperate hdds.
Hey. I have installed Windows 10, and now when I boot it shows me the error "Couldn't localize Windows\system32\winload.efi". How I fix it? Thanks for helping me
Obs.: I have installed Windows 10 without personalizing partitions
Changed the SATA cable, and it appears to be solved for now. It's booting super fast.
Sweet seems like you figured it out with SATA.
@@GeekoutdoorsBrand XD
really helpfull. thanks
You're most welcome!
I tried woe USB and couldn't find the program. How do I find and remove whatever it is that I did in the terminal. I'm hoping I didn't get a bad program in my system.
I installed sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
Then
Sudo apt update
Then
Sudo apt install woeusb
But afterwards could not find it in admin. Is it somewhere im not looking? Could it be malicious?
I'm not sure myself but there's a possibility that the program might not work as it did when I created this video.
I want use use a 2nd M.2 drive
Not sure about M.2 drive as I don't have one yet but I'm pretty sure it'll work but you might want to look on TH-cam to see how people do this with this drive just in case.