I dual boot one PC between Win 10 and Linux Mint xfce, booting to
Windows is now desperately slow.
I am wondering whether to install Win 10 and Linux on different drives
and use EasyBCD as the boot manager. From Googling all the help I have
found starts from AFTER Windows is installed, I'd quite like to see
something about before the OS's are installed. It was many,many moons
ago but the last boot manager I used (I still have it on its original
floppy somewhere) had to be installed first.
Guidance appreciated!
It was many,many moons ago
On 01/06/2024 15:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I dual boot one PC between Win 10 and Linux Mint xfce, booting to Windows >>is now desperately slow.
I am wondering whether to install Win 10 and Linux on different drives
and use EasyBCD as the boot manager. From Googling all the help I have >>found starts from AFTER Windows is installed, I'd quite like to see >>something about before the OS's are installed. It was many,many moons ago >>but the last boot manager I used (I still have it on its original floppy >>somewhere) had to be installed first.
Guidance appreciated!
why not consider UEFI boot?
If your BIOS is UEFi compliant, you could just put an OS on each drive and >then when you reboot, the UEFI bios then presents you with a list of
bootable drives it has found and asks you which one you wish to boot from?
Alternatively have you considered a removable hard disc caddy system like >IcyDock?
SH (the one that pointed you to Ninite and Ventoy.... :-) )
Jeff Gaines wrote:
It was many,many moons ago
The era of dual-booting was (for me) a long time ago, now I'd use some
form of virtualisation ...
I think it was called Boot Commander and I vaguely remember an orange
and yellow floppy :-)
I dual boot one PC between Win 10 and Linux Mint xfce, booting to Windows
is now desperately slow.
On 01/06/2024 in message <v3fe0b$2r6d3$1@dont-email.me> SH wrote:
On 01/06/2024 15:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:
I dual boot one PC between Win 10 and Linux Mint xfce, booting to
Windows is now desperately slow.
I am wondering whether to install Win 10 and Linux on different
drives and use EasyBCD as the boot manager. From Googling all the
help I have found starts from AFTER Windows is installed, I'd quite
like to see something about before the OS's are installed. It was
many,many moons ago but the last boot manager I used (I still have
it on its original floppy somewhere) had to be installed first.
Guidance appreciated!
why not consider UEFI boot?
If your BIOS is UEFi compliant, you could just put an OS on each drive
and then when you reboot, the UEFI bios then presents you with a list
of bootable drives it has found and asks you which one you wish to
boot from?
Alternatively have you considered a removable hard disc caddy system
like IcyDock?
SH (the one that pointed you to Ninite and Ventoy.... :-) )
The UEFI option sounds attractive. All I know about UEFI is it mens a
BIOS screen with zillions of options 99% of which mean nothing to me :-(
Would that mean install windows first and when it's working pull the
drive (an NVMe in this case but it could be an SSD) and install Linux on
a second drive then rely on UEFI to pick them up?
Or do the above and put EasyBCD on the Windows drive - I can't find a
Linux version.
I do have a caddy as an option.
I meant to say to Andy Burns that I have tried virtualisation but was
being given estimated times in excess of 24 hours for HandBrake to build
an mkv from an iso :-)
On 01/06/2024 in message <xn0omk1ux7ggemb00a@news.individual.net> Jeff
Gaines wrote:
I dual boot one PC between Win 10 and Linux Mint xfce, booting to Windows >>is now desperately slow.
An extra piece of information.
I recently added a Blu Ray player to this PC and I always put a jinx on
them, they seem to be designed specifically to put DRM first and foremost
and playing Blu Rays a long way behind.
I disconnected it and the PC boots perfectly into both Linux and Win 10.
Not sure where that gets me, anybody come across it before?
On 01/06/2024 in message <lc0s9jF5k8nU4@mid.individual.net> Andy Burns
wrote:
Jeff Gaines wrote:
It was many,many moons ago
The era of dual-booting was (for me) a long time ago, now I'd use some
form of virtualisation ...
I think it was called Boot Commander and I vaguely remember an orange and yellow floppy :-)
normally, I use one drive at a time..... so for example:
so install Windows 11 on one drive.
pull that drive and install a different drive.... install Ubuntu to that
Pull that drive and install a different drive... install FreeBSD to that.
This then reduces the risk of accidental disc mess-ups.
Then put all 3 drives back in. You can usually in the UEFI BIOS set the
order of drive booting (which won't work in your case) or set all drives
to UEFI boot.
Next time you reboot, you should get a list of UEFI bootable drives for
you to choose to boot from, not dissimilar to Ventoy and its ISOs, only
this time you have Bootable full disc drives with fully installed
partitions & OS'es.
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