Windows 10: Best process to multi-boot on one system without W10 interfering? With appropriate hardware...

Hello all! I've recently picked up an older Dell Latitude. I used to have the model and wanted to recreate the memories, and do what I wanted to do then but didn't. That being, tri-booting with XP, a newer Windows system, and Linux. Limits on drive partitions or partition types will not be an issue, as it will be done on two drives. SSD for W10/Linux, and HDD for XP.However, i'm not sure what order to install a tri-boot in, especially with the differences between XP and 10. And from my experiences dual-booting, newer versions of Windows are aggressive in forcing the Windows bootloader instea

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Boot Process

Hi,

Please suggest me a link that can explain the boot process step by step of ...

• Windows 7,
• Windows 8.1,
• Windows 10,
• Windows Server 2008 R2 and
• Windows Server 2012 R2

With Regards

InTech

 

Windows 10 Boot process

The best explanation I have read is this link on Quora, it explains each step of the boot process in detail. While it does not list all
the files executed - this would be not be the same on different systems, it does give an in depth explanation

Another thing you might like to look up is the difference in booting a BIOS based system as opposed to a UEFI based system -

Click HERE for a good article

 

W10 does no boot

My Vaio SVE with W10 does not boot. Using ASSIST button I cannot recover the system --have gone through all the options. Unfortunately I do not have a recovery point neither a recovery external disk. Any suggestions?

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