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Dual Booting: How in god's name?! (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by blakeus12@hexbear.net to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have one drive, 1tb with Pop_OS, and another, 500 on to which i want to install windows. (I know, I dont like it either but I want to play VR games via link cable cause ALVR is really mid) So, I put the ISO on a drive with ventoy, booted it up, got it all going. started to install windows on the empty drive. So, after the five steps it kicks me out of the installer and now, I can't acess the second drive. Even through moving the boot order on BIOS, it always loads me into pop os. The only time it ever didn't do this is one time where it seemingly randomly gave me boot options, two of which were Pop_OS and one was "windows boot manager", which when selected turned off my computer and promptly i booted right back into Pop_OS. Can anyone provide some advice? TIA.

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[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There is a niffty Boot manager called Refined. This is what I use even though I installed Windows after Linux and had many kernel panics, but it does the job well since it scans your boot drive every time you Power on your machine. Here is a link. Just download the CD-ROM version, put it in ventoy, boot from it, and the rest is easy. You already are a linux user, you can figure it out.

I also advise you to disable Windows updates if you can, and I mean all updates, because they can mess the boot order. If you use Windows to play games and games only.

Edit: You can also install it from your distro package manager if you can access your system.

[–] blakeus12@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that is exclusively how i use it, thanks for the tip

[–] mr_right@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

No problem, just returning the good of the community. Tell me if it worked out.