Dual Booting Windows 10 on two different drivers woes

Zhuni

Zhuni

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Hey guys.

I've set up our house PC as follows

M.2 drive with Windows 10 for gaming

Sata SSD for wife's work.

I've install windows 10 on each drive with her's as the default.

When I did the installs I made sure the other drive wasn't installed so they are totally separate drives that share nothing.

The trouble is after using my m.2 win 10 the sata drive always wants to run a repair on start up and about once every six weeks gets so upset it won't repair and requires a fresh install.

Is this likely to be a Windows 10 issue, a bios issue, a drive issue or perhaps a mobo issue. Is there something simple I'm missing, it is this one of those blind issues that you just have to trial and error. I like the dual boot on separate drives it works great for our needs and avoids OS related punch ups!

Any advice would be great!
 
When you machine boots at a very early stage in the process it looks up what devices it can boot from. When it scans them, the first thing it’s looking for is the master boot record which is a record of what devices / partitions can be booted to load an operating system.

when you installed you windows on 2 different drives, neither installation will have seen the other one, so each will have created their own boot record that only lists itself, and so it’s possible that your getting these issues as a result of that... ie 2 conflicting boot records that each day they are the only device you can boot.

I m not sure how you would go about dual booting on different drives, but it likely can be done and I imagine that it would try on being able to see both drives at the same time so it can get its boot records ordered correctly.

look here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...rives-on/6cbb6f55-bfb0-411a-8fbd-bd987b02474f
 
Is she doing anything that wouldn't run in a virtual machine?

Create a login on the M.2 installation for you both. Under her login, install VirtualBox (or your hypervisor of choice) and install a Windows 10 VM.

No dual boot issues and the entire VM can easily be backed up and even moved to a different machine if you need to.
 
Do the right thing and keep the two fully separate by having two PCs. She can put her new PC as a business expense.
 
Donnie Fisher said:
When you machine boots at a very early stage in the process it looks up what devices it can boot from. When it scans them, the first thing it’s looking for is the master boot record which is a record of what devices / partitions can be booted to load an operating system.

when you installed you windows on 2 different drives, neither installation will have seen the other one, so each will have created their own boot record that only lists itself, and so it’s possible that your getting these issues as a result of that... ie 2 conflicting boot records that each day they are the only device you can boot.

I m not sure how you would go about dual booting on different drives, but it likely can be done and I imagine that it would try on being able to see both drives at the same time so it can get its boot records ordered correctly.

look here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...rives-on/6cbb6f55-bfb0-411a-8fbd-bd987b02474f
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Thanks Donnie! Will have a read.

And thanks to other two posters will have a think!
 
I have a similar setup. Gaming boot is an M2, work boot is a SSD.

Once installed I used EasyBCD to setup the boot menu, have not had any issues with it at all.

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chroniclard said:
I have a similar setup. Gaming boot is an M2, work boot is a SSD.

Once installed I used EasyBCD to setup the boot menu, have not had any issues with it at all.

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Wow awesome!

I'll sort that out! I have sorted out the boot issue by removing the other drive from the boot priority list completely. But this will make things cleaner
 
OCUK used to sell the Lian Li BZ H06B. A bay mounted 6 hard drive power switch box. I still use one to swap between my PC and the boys. Same gear, same overclock, totally different SSDs.

Saved me a few times, while they learnt where not to download Minecraft mods from. ;)

I couldn't use an M2 with it though. Might try the above.
 
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