FYI right click to copy highlighted text absolutely works in the command prompt you just have to enable it. Right click the banner, select properties, on the options tab select "Quick Edit Mode" and click OK. Now you can left click drag to highlight text, right click on the white highlighted text to copy, right click again will past the copied text.
😍, lucky I saw your input ☝. I was about to offer the same advice. The sequence or method of operation is not obvious but my wisdom is not from self but others on the web with superior knowledge 🙏
I have been doing multi boot Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on the same boot storage (either SATA, SAS or NVMe) for many years. Do it only when you know how UEFI and MBR boot work. If you don't know , then don't do multi boot. Because sometimes the BCD or Grub boot will break and you have to do manual recovery. The boot recovery is not simple.
Wow, this is actually a very handy tip for me for a completely different purpose. Something I have had to do a few times in the past when recovering someone's data from a failed laptop (not failed hard drive, I've used a diff method for this) or when I've wanted to experiment when trying to fix an OS that won't boot, particularly my mother's ancient Windows Vista laptop when the motherboard died back in April this year I knew she wanted her new laptop set up as close as possible to her old one (programs and layout etc), so using this method would make it much easier for me when backing up a drive and restoring a backup to a Virtual Disk and therefore load it into a virtual machine. This allows me to see what she had setup before and exactly how she had it. My method for doing this before is actually quite messy and embarassing now I've seen this video since I feel like I should have known about this. Thank you so much, Rich! This will actually make that job much easier and tidier in the future!
Duel boot for Linux and windows 11 is something I’ve been interested in since finding out Linux gaming for single player games can actually be far more stable than windows (in terms of frametimes for UE5 games).
Rich, Please for the sake of those of us who have older eyesight could you please ZOOM-IN when you go into CMD and start typing all of those "steps"? Thanks brother...
Hi Richard, love this video about dual boot for windows, if I would have seen this a year ago, I would not need to ask you this next question. I now am running dual boot using two drives, my old Windows 10 and the new install of Windows 11. Is there a way to create the VHDX path in windows 11 as you showed us and then do a drive image of my windows 10 drive files and place that image in the VHDX folder, then I will have one less drive on my system. I am not looking for speed here just tying to clean up my system a little. Please keep up the good work, I do learn something every time I see one of your videos.
You can. However, you can't expand the size of the drive itself in disk management so since you're already in diskpart, you might as well just extend the volume there. It's more convenient.
Why you gave us this video AFTER i install another windows and break booting in my PC ? 🤣😂🤣😅 ...i have repair it with your other videos so we are even now. But for real, another great guide. You saved my data multiple times.
What other amazing secrets have you been hiding from us? Seriously, this is a great video. Thank you! I've looked at many sites about dual booting and never even heard about this method before. I do have one question. When you are in your Windows 10 Gaming drive, can you still directly access files and folders located in your Windows 11 system?
4:13 I use Windows 7 Enterprise on my old computer so, I can install Windows 7 Professional on a virtual disk on my old computer. Your computer by default is Windows 10 on modern computer (not compatible with Windows 7) but, mine is default: Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Ultimate
Insane! 🎆 thank you! - I was just searching for that topic 2 hours ago, and you literally just uploaded this video! ❤ If you read this, you'll soon find success in your journey! May all your wishes come true! ✨️ 🙏🏼
Question: Can you use a backup utility to clone your old drive to a USB drive, create a virtual disk on a new hard drive (with an existing OS installed, of course) then use the utility to restore the old drive to the virtual disk?
That's an interesting question. It seems, to me (seems to "ME"), it would work fine. Just be sure to allow enough room, in the VD, for your clone but, as he said, you can always increase it, for new software installations. 😁✌🖖 P.S.: Remember, though, if you want to "clone", the target drive must be the same size or larger, than the source drive, because the cloning operation will clone the Entire drive, including the empty space.
Virtualization tools like Hyper-V Manager can directly create virtual disks from physical drives. You don't need to bounce back and forth. Also, your concept is solid, but many hard disk tools exclude virtual disks.
Thanks for the video full of info. I have to do a test for dual boot with a linux distro like Ubuntu, or even batocera, pimiga etc. This needs investigation.
In my personal experience is asking for troubles. Back in the days I bought 1 icydock flexidock to run Win 7,Win10 and Ubuntu on the same pc (3 os 3 different sata SSD)...wish there was something similiar for nvme drives.
OK, I got you I already knew something about this method but where exactly is that space, as virtual as it it is but since that you don't take up space from the physical drive, you also don't ad another drive where exactly is stored there must be somewhere that is taking up space from mustn't it?!
The virtual hard drive file that you create on the primary drive will grow as you use space in the second OS. So it will take up space on your drive but since it's dynamic that space expands as needed.
could you use this for something like windows xp? i have a way to actually install windows xp on my laptop but am unsure if the VHDX file would even show up within the xp setup
You are talking like we couldn't install multipule operating systems on 1 disk before... Easybcd... I have a pentium 4 pc from 20 years back with tripple boot from 1 disk.
Yes, but in order to do that you had to partition the original drive. So you would lose not only the space for each additional operating system but you also lose the free space for each additional operating system. By using a dynamically expanding virtual disc you only lose the space that's needed for the OS itself.
@@zapa1pnt Ah man, so many.... Windows wiping out the Linux boot loader after an update..... Windows ( 11 ) preventing UEFI boot for Linux.... Windows not updating because it doesn't clean up its own boot partition ( and doesn't know the Linux Kernel is taking up space ).... those are the major ones. Note: Windows 10 will still have many of these issues but you can kinda do it on a GPT partition using UEFI. Trust me, I've been using both systems for decades and this is a VERY common problem, don't do it dude. Two different operating systems, two drives.
@@notjustforhackers4252 .. I just dumped Linux as Grub honestly sucks. All I did was add another HD and Linux Mint 22 failed. Windows didn't care of course.
I faced error "diskpart has encountered an error: a virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found." There is no virtual disk selected
I came across an issue, I followed your instructions but when I got to the dos prompt me current windows 11 drive is not showing as C:, it's displaying the contents of a different drive and the real C: drive with my OS on is nowhere to be found!!! Could it be that it is an M.2?
Is there a way to access files on the original drive(maybe different partition) from within the operating system that is booted from the vhdx file? In this video, win10 would boot and run from a vhdx. Is there a way, while running win 10, to access files on the win11 drive?
@@CyberCPU That must've been it...Def like this idea as a way to get Win11 small System on the same Computer without re-partitioning OR adding another Hard Drive! Great and useful Video! -Mark.
@@xgui4-studios When dsone correctly by MS instructions, it works great. I had Win. XP, Win. Vista, and Win. 7. All of my files were on a different SSD. On startup, the bootloader would ask which OS I wanted to boot.
full useless very easy ... same disk more easy make proper dual boot older OS example win11/ windows7 and different hard disk /ssd waiting this video ... i think you found many problem this configuration ... thanks
Dualboot is for losers. I´m doing multiboot with .vhd files, which i can backup and restore if needed. And i´m doing this since .vhd files are available. Edit: I posted this comment just by reading the video title before watching the video.
Making crap up is for losers. You haven't been native booting vhd since they became available on Windows (2003). You couldn't native boot until Win7/2008R2. Besides, he said HE recently learned of this, not that it was new.
@@Nick41622Before I upgraded to Windows 11, I made an image backup of my windows 10 setup; then used a tool to copy-convert that image into a VHDX to boot into. I did that initially to be able to test software compatibility between the two os versions. Now I'm exploring moving the vhd to a removable sdd to see if I can boot from there as well to expand on potential virtual boot options.
22 Years of being a computer technician and I'm still learning new DiskPart commands. Thank you!
FYI right click to copy highlighted text absolutely works in the command prompt you just have to enable it. Right click the banner, select properties, on the options tab select "Quick Edit Mode" and click OK. Now you can left click drag to highlight text, right click on the white highlighted text to copy, right click again will past the copied text.
😍, lucky I saw your input ☝. I was about to offer the same advice. The sequence or method of operation is not obvious but my wisdom is not from self but others on the web with superior knowledge 🙏
I have been doing multi boot Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on the same boot storage (either SATA, SAS or NVMe) for many years. Do it only when you know how UEFI and MBR boot work. If you don't know , then don't do multi boot. Because sometimes the BCD or Grub boot will break and you have to do manual recovery. The boot recovery is not simple.
Wow, this is actually a very handy tip for me for a completely different purpose. Something I have had to do a few times in the past when recovering someone's data from a failed laptop (not failed hard drive, I've used a diff method for this) or when I've wanted to experiment when trying to fix an OS that won't boot, particularly my mother's ancient Windows Vista laptop when the motherboard died back in April this year I knew she wanted her new laptop set up as close as possible to her old one (programs and layout etc), so using this method would make it much easier for me when backing up a drive and restoring a backup to a Virtual Disk and therefore load it into a virtual machine. This allows me to see what she had setup before and exactly how she had it. My method for doing this before is actually quite messy and embarassing now I've seen this video since I feel like I should have known about this.
Thank you so much, Rich! This will actually make that job much easier and tidier in the future!
Just when I think I've seen it all, you find something that's been there all along. Thx.
Duel boot for Linux and windows 11 is something I’ve been interested in since finding out Linux gaming for single player games can actually be far more stable than windows (in terms of frametimes for UE5 games).
Just don't do it on the same HD.
@@notjustforhackers4252: It would be nice, if you were
to explain Why. Please. 😁✌🖖
@@notjustforhackers4252 Oh? RIP that idea then. Even on an M.2?
@@stealthhunter6998 Any HD. Two different operating systems, two different drives.
@@notjustforhackers4252 works for me on the same drive haha
Got to download this video, it's pure gold.
Rich, Please for the sake of those of us who have older eyesight could you please ZOOM-IN when you go into CMD and start typing all of those "steps"? Thanks brother...
I'm with you, on that, dude!
We have no need, to se the entirety of his desk top. 😁✌🖖
Brother I'm 27 years of age, and it is torture to focus your eyes this much.
Hi Richard, love this video about dual boot for windows, if I would have seen this a year ago, I would not need to ask you this next question. I now am running dual boot using two drives, my old Windows 10 and the new install of Windows 11. Is there a way to create the VHDX path in windows 11 as you showed us and then do a drive image of my windows 10 drive files and place that image in the VHDX folder, then I will have one less drive on my system. I am not looking for speed here just tying to clean up my system a little. Please keep up the good work, I do learn something every time I see one of your videos.
Yes, there is a way to do that. Watch the video that's coming out on Monday. It shows how to image an existing drive to a vhdx and make it bootable.
@@CyberCPUI'm waiting
Rich, you are a master, and thanks to people like you who are always willing to share knowledge.
You can also extend a volume in disk management. Just right click the volume and choose extend.
You can. However, you can't expand the size of the drive itself in disk management so since you're already in diskpart, you might as well just extend the volume there. It's more convenient.
Why you gave us this video AFTER i install another windows and break booting in my PC ? 🤣😂🤣😅
...i have repair it with your other videos so we are even now.
But for real, another great guide. You saved my data multiple times.
What other amazing secrets have you been hiding from us? Seriously, this is a great video. Thank you! I've looked at many sites about dual booting and never even heard about this method before. I do have one question. When you are in your Windows 10 Gaming drive, can you still directly access files and folders located in your Windows 11 system?
Yes, your primary hard drive for your main operating system will typically be the D: drive in the secondary system.
4:13 I use Windows 7 Enterprise on my old computer so, I can install Windows 7 Professional on a virtual disk on my old computer. Your computer by default is Windows 10 on modern computer (not compatible with Windows 7) but, mine is default: Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Ultimate
Set Command Promt to full screen and enlarge the font: Lucida Console 24 for example.
It's more visible that way.
Very useful but please update the title to reflect that this about 2 instances of Windows, not mixed OS's.
That's exactly how I'm dual booting in my pc!
Just amazing, thank you 😊
Insane! 🎆 thank you! - I was just searching for that topic 2 hours ago, and you literally just uploaded this video! ❤
If you read this, you'll soon find success in your journey! May all your wishes come true! ✨️ 🙏🏼
As always, great info
Great video! Great content!
If you have time, could you please tell me where you got your ice cream wallpaper ? I'd really appreciate it, and thank you for the video.
Rich, can I use this method to install a Linux OS?
Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) the best :)
You are the best ,thanks❤
you should show the removing options.
also, you can say about- it is possible with linux or not.
as i find elsewhere, no. not possible for now.
@@rchltmedia bummer
@@rchltmedia I wonder if it's because of Windows bootloader limits, or Grub's?
I want to dualboot Windows 11 and 10 thanks!
I'm busy making a video about installing an os on a partition inside a vhd that sits on a partition. Funny stuff.
Looking forward to it.
Question: Can you use a backup utility to clone your old drive to a USB drive, create a virtual disk on a new hard drive (with an existing OS installed, of course) then use the utility to restore the old drive to the virtual disk?
That's an interesting question. It seems, to me (seems to "ME"),
it would work fine. Just be sure to allow enough room, in the VD,
for your clone but, as he said, you can always increase it, for new
software installations. 😁✌🖖
P.S.: Remember, though, if you want to "clone", the target drive
must be the same size or larger, than the source drive, because
the cloning operation will clone the Entire drive, including the
empty space.
Virtualization tools like Hyper-V Manager can directly create virtual disks from physical drives. You don't need to bounce back and forth. Also, your concept is solid, but many hard disk tools exclude virtual disks.
Thanks for the video full of info. I have to do a test for dual boot with a linux distro like Ubuntu, or even batocera, pimiga etc. This needs investigation.
You are unique 👍
4 x MS DOS on 1 HDD with 510 kb each FAT16 format and all together fit in the first 2047 kb of the disk.
In my personal experience is asking for troubles.
Back in the days I bought 1 icydock flexidock to run Win 7,Win10 and Ubuntu on the same pc (3 os 3 different sata SSD)...wish there was something similiar for nvme drives.
OK, I got you I already knew something about this method but where exactly is that space, as virtual as it it is but since that you don't take up space from the physical drive, you also don't ad another drive where exactly is stored there must be somewhere that is taking up space from mustn't it?!
The virtual hard drive file that you create on the primary drive will grow as you use space in the second OS. So it will take up space on your drive but since it's dynamic that space expands as needed.
Can we use this for dual booting linux also ?
wouldn't it to be easier to use the program EasyBCD the change operating system names?
You can rename the Dualbooted windows operating system with EasyBCD
I like more ProxMox for multi-systems on 1 PC :D
So this leads me to a question, is this method viable as a way to test Win 11 on unsupported Win 10 hardware?
Yes. In fact that's a great use for it.
I've abandoned dual boot with a single drive years ago. I've got tired of Windows updates constantly ruining my setup.
hi how to fix. from CMD attach vdisk, virtual disk service error, the virtual disk is already attached. but not showing.
Run list disk and see if the vdisk is listed. If it is then it's already attached.
@CyberTech, can do the same thing for Linux based OSs? Meaning that Windows 11 is the primary and the Linus OS is the virtual.
could you use this for something like windows xp? i have a way to actually install windows xp on my laptop but am unsure if the VHDX file would even show up within the xp setup
You are talking like we couldn't install multipule operating systems on 1 disk before... Easybcd... I have a pentium 4 pc from 20 years back with tripple boot from 1 disk.
Yes, but in order to do that you had to partition the original drive. So you would lose not only the space for each additional operating system but you also lose the free space for each additional operating system. By using a dynamically expanding virtual disc you only lose the space that's needed for the OS itself.
Just NEVER dual boot Windows and Linux on the same hard drive. EVER. Anyone who suggests doing this is a fool and shouldn't be listened to.
An explanation, of your reasoning
would, certainly, be appreciated.
@@zapa1pnt Ah man, so many.... Windows wiping out the Linux boot loader after an update..... Windows ( 11 ) preventing UEFI boot for Linux.... Windows not updating because it doesn't clean up its own boot partition ( and doesn't know the Linux Kernel is taking up space ).... those are the major ones.
Note: Windows 10 will still have many of these issues but you can kinda do it on a GPT partition using UEFI.
Trust me, I've been using both systems for decades and this is a VERY common problem, don't do it dude. Two different operating systems, two drives.
@@notjustforhackers4252 .. I just dumped Linux as Grub honestly sucks. All I did was add another HD and Linux Mint 22 failed. Windows didn't care of course.
But still, i is too expansive is my opinion... @notjustforhackers4252
8:58 didn't you also set it to dynamically resize the virtual drive? Wouldn't that solve the issue anyway?
Can you save live running Windows 10 to virtual disk, then boot from virtual disk and upgrade it to Windows 11?
I faced error "diskpart has encountered an error: a virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found."
There is no virtual disk selected
Good day, at 8:44 can we skip straight to diskpart ?
WHY!?
I have this weird dual booting issue that causes my monitor to not pull up the bios.
why would you dual boot?
Why not? lol
1 for work and 1 for Gaming 🎉
I have my old Windows 10 install saved as a vhd to test software that might run differently on windows 11.
Can I use this method to install ubuntu?
idk, but ypu could use Ubuntu WSL
I came across an issue, I followed your instructions but when I got to the dos prompt me current windows 11 drive is not showing as C:, it's displaying the contents of a different drive and the real C: drive with my OS on is nowhere to be found!!! Could it be that it is an M.2?
i had a dualboot systembut broke my linux :( i have to tr-install it . i use fedora btw !
how to go to the blue screen where you can choose to which os you want to boot ?
Boot manager exist since MS DOS.
Is there a way to access files on the original drive(maybe different partition) from within the operating system that is booted from the vhdx file?
In this video, win10 would boot and run from a vhdx. Is there a way, while running win 10, to access files on the win11 drive?
Yes, it's automatically mounted as D:
Doesn't count if you didn't watch it :)
I'm running Win10 and I don't see those opt3ions from the Action Menu. Is Win11 required or do I have to install something like VMWare first? -Mark.
Make sure you don't have a partition highlighted.
@@CyberCPU That must've been it...Def like this idea as a way to get Win11 small System on the same Computer without re-partitioning OR adding another Hard Drive! Great and useful Video! -Mark.
I once had a triple boot on one drive.
Bad idea
@@xgui4-studios When dsone correctly by MS instructions, it works great. I had Win. XP, Win. Vista, and Win. 7. All of my files were on a different SSD. On startup, the bootloader would ask which OS I wanted to boot.
I duel boot with windows 11 and android
If you read this - Maybe tell people about BOOTICE
First ❤
fedora > windows
full useless very easy ... same disk more easy
make proper dual boot older OS example win11/ windows7 and different hard disk /ssd
waiting this video ... i think you found many problem this configuration ...
thanks
salve
Or use bcdedit, much simpler
Really? Tw&t lol
Dualboot is for losers. I´m doing multiboot with .vhd files, which i can backup and restore if needed. And i´m doing this since .vhd files are available. Edit: I posted this comment just by reading the video title before watching the video.
😂
You know, you are allowed, to state your case
and process, without insulting people, if possible.
@@zapa1pnt Take everything with a grain of salt. If you felt insulted, only you know why. 🙂🖖
@@acerreteq703: Yes, because you are an insulting *ss.
Making crap up is for losers. You haven't been native booting vhd since they became available on Windows (2003). You couldn't native boot until Win7/2008R2. Besides, he said HE recently learned of this, not that it was new.
In one word. No.
why not ?
@@xgui4-studios Why would you?
@@Nick41622Before I upgraded to Windows 11, I made an image backup of my windows 10 setup; then used a tool to copy-convert that image into a VHDX to boot into. I did that initially to be able to test software compatibility between the two os versions.
Now I'm exploring moving the vhd to a removable sdd to see if I can boot from there as well to expand on potential virtual boot options.
@@Nick41622 YES!
*BECAUSE*