Solved Can't Create Dual Boot

CornishRattler · Mar 1, 2022

CornishRattler said:
Arghhhhhh damn Optane!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you may have to install the drivers prior to installing. This needs thinking about some more. I think a USB install is a must now though

Can you look in the bios, that’ll tell you for sure if it’s an Optane system

The-Hive · Mar 1, 2022

Yes I will thanks, but it's a funny bios on the Inspiron 3501

The-Hive · Mar 1, 2022

The manual says Optane H10, I wasted a day on it today so maybe I won't be dual booting

CornishRattler · Mar 1, 2022

The-Hive said:
The manual says Optane H10, I wasted a day on it today so maybe I won't be dual booting

Where there’s a will…….

The-Hive · Mar 1, 2022

I will keep trying things and who knows... Thank God I have Macrium

CornishRattler · Mar 1, 2022

The-Hive said:
I will keep trying things and who knows... Thank God I have Macrium

At the end of the day trying to install on a partition with a usb and adding the drivers won't hose up anything other than your target partition, if it proves a challenge then nothing is lost, just image back to original

EDIT** Looking around the intyweb and it can be done using the VMT drivers on a usb

NavyLCDR · Mar 1, 2022

You are going to need two things:
1. A standard Windows 11 installation USB flash drive.
2. Intel Rapid Storage Technology Drivers for optane saved onto a USB flash drive.

Intel Support

Intel® Customer Support home page

www.intel.com

Boot the computer from the Windows 11 installation USB flash drive.
Select language, keyboard.
Click don't have a product key (if you need to)
Select the edition of Windows 11 you want to install (if you need to)
Select the Custom Install option
If the next screen shows no drives or partitions, then select the option to install driver, install the IRST drivers.
Now you should get a list of disks and partitions. Select the partition or unallocated space you want to install to.
Click next.

The-Hive · Mar 2, 2022

All working and Dual Booting

Thanks to @NavyLCDR @CornishRattler @Fabler2

CornishRattler · Mar 2, 2022

The-Hive said:
All working and Dual Booting

Thanks to @NavyLCDR @CornishRattler @Fabler2

BOOM!!!!

What turned out to be the issue?

The-Hive · Mar 2, 2022

The problem was the drivers were missing as you told me and the step by step guide and supplied links from @NavyLCDR made it so easy, it worked first time Big thanks to all

CornishRattler · Mar 2, 2022

The-Hive said:
The problem was the drivers were missing as you told me and the step by step guide and supplied links from @NavyLCDR made it so easy, it worked first time Big thanks to all

Glad it help and glad it worked

The-Hive · Mar 2, 2022

I am so grateful as you pointed me in the right direction, and then the step by step sorted it. I didn't realise how much setting up I have to do now!!
My boot menu showed the new operating system as default and my 11 setup as 10 as it was from an upgrade so I downloaded EasyBCD from techspot.com and sorted it all out

CornishRattler · Mar 2, 2022

The-Hive said:
I am so grateful as you pointed me in the right direction, and then the step by step sorted it. I didn't realise how much setting up I have to do now!!
My boot menu showed the new operating system as default and my 11 setup as 10 as it was from an upgrade so I downloaded EasyBCD from techspot.com and sorted it all out

The complicating factor was as ever....our old friend optane.

cereberus · Mar 2, 2022

CornishRattler said:
Arghhhhhh damn Optane!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you may have to install the drivers prior to installing. This needs thinking about some more. I think a USB install is a must now though

I prefer to inject my optane drivers into boot.wim and install.wim before installation.

Without installing from boot.wim, I cannot see the optane drive from the windows installation menu. However, if you do not inject into boot.wim, you can manually add the driver from the installation menu as @NavyLCDR describes.

As an aside, I use dism to install OS as dual boot rather than booting from a usb drive, or running the iso from Windows.

I have a batch file that does it all in one go, creating a dual boot vhd. With a small modification, it would install to a new formatted partition.

edit: did small mod and it worked great.

Wynona · Mar 2, 2022

The-Hive said:
All working and Dual Booting

Thanks to @NavyLCDR @CornishRattler @Fabler2

YAY! I've been following this, since I normally dual boot on most of my systems.

I was getting ready to ask about clean installing both . . . That's normally what I do.

Anyhow, I'm glad you got 'er done!

The-Hive · Mar 2, 2022

Thanks @Wynona it was a brilliant guide by @NavyLCDR as the driver issue with Optane left me clueless

The-Hive · Mar 2, 2022

I was wondering if there was any way I can access my files from the other OS as I can see them in Explorer.
All is good and working well, one thing Bit Locker encrypted the drive during installation.

CornishRattler · Mar 2, 2022

The-Hive said:
I was wondering if there was any way I can access my files from the other OS as I can see them in Explorer.
All is good and working well, one thing Bit Locker encrypted the drive during installation.

I don't use B/L at all, just turn it off. All my files that I need are on one drive so I can access them from any of the 3 OS's I have