Windows 10: Dual boot windows overwrote boot partition

Discus and support Dual boot windows overwrote boot partition in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Hi so I have had a Windows 10 install on my PC for around 3 years and wanted to try the new Windows 10 insider builds and so I created a separate... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by XanderTetley1, Jun 16, 2021.

  1. Dual boot windows overwrote boot partition


    Hi so I have had a Windows 10 install on my PC for around 3 years and wanted to try the new Windows 10 insider builds and so I created a separate Windows 10 install on another drive in my PC so it doesn’t conflict with my main Windows 10 install however the new install has overwrote my boot partition on my drive with my main Windows partition and I can’t boot it anymore. Please help I don’t want to lose everything that I have setup on it

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    XanderTetley1, Jun 16, 2021
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  2. Solaris17 Win User

    Dual Boot?

    I can help here iv had both i used partition magic to split my HDD and i installed vista on one and xp was already on the other only problem is id watch out if i were you for some reason vista does not like to dual boot iv seen this on a couple of my machines and my buddys. so step one have xp installed step 2 find a partitioner of your choice i dont know of any except partition magic and the one included on xp...only thing is i dont think the one on xp will even partition them...then pop in your vista DVD and select the drive of your choice....the only thing i can think of that causes vista to hate dual booting sooo much is that when their are 2 OS's installed xp uses its own prog to list them on boot well vista uses a totally diff boot loader than the previous os's and i think they conflict the problems i hade were the standard missing windows folder missing HAL.dll and the nt one dont remember the name.....that and after your done vista and boot into xp things didnt like to start correctly specially if you scan disk with vista.
     
    Solaris17, Jun 16, 2021
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  3. Dandel Win User
    How to go about building a tri-boot system?

    i dual boot all the time, and going in to tri boot is easy.

    step 1) partition the drive in to 3 partitions ( leaving 1 empty for the linux installer. )
    step 2) install windows on the first 2 partitions.
    step 3) install linux, and let it auto partition the remaining space. ( i recommend at least 30gb of space for linux, because it will make things a lot easier. )

    step 4) enjoy.
     
    Dandel, Jun 16, 2021
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  4. Dual boot windows overwrote boot partition

    Partition size for Windows 7 dual boot?

    Somewhere I read it should be 16GB... somewhere else I read it should be 10GB... what would you suggest?

    Another thing, I never dual booted before so I'm very noob on this - To play all my games on Windows 7 would I have to reinstall them under the new OS? I am assuming so but thought I'd ask just in case.
    If yes... then I'd be needing to make my Windows 7 partition at least 50 or 60GB... (I've got 150GB free HDD space on my desktop).

    Thanks for the help *Smile Dual boot windows overwrote boot partition :)
     
    Black Panther, Jun 16, 2021
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