Install 2 Win 10 installations on 1 disk drive.


steve17

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I have the iso for Win10 build 19043.1237 on a USB flash drive and I have a Win11 ready motherboard. For testing, I've installed Win10 multiple times on various disk drives and upgraded some of them to Win11.

Now I want to install Win10 twice on one disk drive. I plan on upgrading one of them to Win11. Has anyone installed Win10 on 2 different partitions on a disk drive? I've done it, but now the second installation boots up only. I expected an OS selection screen allowing me to chose which OS I want.

I've gotten such a screen when I installed Win10 on another disk. The installer made the other disk non-bootable and gave me the OS selection screen on the first disk. But I want to put 2 OS installations on one disk and get the OS selection screen.
 
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Win10 19043.1237

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When you are booted into one Windows installation, the other Windows partition should have a drive letter. If it does not, then simply assign it a drive letter. Let's say it is X: drive. The command to add it to dual boot would be:

Code:
bcdboot X:\Windows /d /addlast
 

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Thanks for the reply. Actually I just remembered I failed to disable fast boot, which I do by shutting off hibernate. Now it's working, and I'm embarrassed. But I'm old so I have an excuse. ;)
 

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Windows11Intel core 7 gen 1132 GBnone
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Windows11
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PC/Desktop
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ASrock extreme wifi 6e mobo
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Intel core 7 gen 11
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