Windows 10: Dual Booting

Hello,

I am trying to do a dual boot with windows 10 on my main drive, then Linux on my other one. The one with Windows 10 is a SATA. And the other drive I will be putting Linux on is a IDE drive.

Can someone let me know what is the best configuration is for this kind of set up?

(If I posted this in the wrong section, Admin can move this thread please.)
Thanks!

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Always booting from the wrong drive

Drive K is not a boot drive.

If dual booting Windows located on the drive K: it will be changed to C:

You have to do the dual boot from the BIOS.

Check post from Andre da Costa on Dual booting.

 

Boot Issues, Partitioning Errors, Backup, and Dual-Booting Windows 10

This was in fact a dual boot problem. All VM is dual boot.

 

thanks for what??

 

The way I do it may help you.
I install each OS on separate drives while the other(s) are physically disconnected so there is no chance of one messing with others boot. After connecting both drives (it doesn't matter if they are IDE or SATA), drive with windows is made first BOOT device. After that, I install: EasyBCD 2.3 Download - TechSpot and with it's help make BOOT menu that shows before BOOT is continued and lets me choose which OS to BOOT to.
There are other ways to make that BOOT menu like from command prompt but this is easiest, fastest and more fool proof. Could also be done by adding a line to BCD thru msconfig.
There's also HW way to do it if your computer BIOS has an option to choose boot device thru a button (on mine it's F12).
Hope that helps.

 

It would be interesting to know details of your PC is, specifically if it boots through UEFI or not. EFI and the old BIOS require different strategies. You could fill them in as described here System Specs - Fill in at Ten Forums - Windows 10 Forums

Mine boots using EFI and I use rEFInd as the EFI bootoader which will find anything bootable on any drive (internal, external, USB key, SD card etc). Arch Linux requires a few changes to the config file, all other Linux varients I've tried are picked up automatically as are Windows and OSX.

If you have an older machine then you can add Linux to your Windows boot loader as described by Mike or use Grub both of which are (IMO) a bit more complicated.

 

With an IDE port and drive it's highly unlikely it has UEFI.

 

Good point. If not then GRUB or fiddling with the Windows boot manager (as you said) is the option.

Let us see what the OP says.

EFI is much easier....