BadAnalysis
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tl;dr: last lime I tried with Windows 10 was a complete mess so I need advice.
Hello,
I use my PC for both work and gaming. Unfortunately the two don't really co-exist well. Years ago I attempted multi-booting on two different drives but had issues with file corruption and bootloader confusion that I never managed to completely resolve. Below is a list of issues I came across, is there a better way of doing this stably or is it just not possible?
Fastboot: This was a killer. I learned the hard way to disable this. Each time I swapped OSs the loading OS would detect improperly closed files and other issues and attempt to 'correct' them leading to massive file corruption.
Sleep/Hibernate/power loss: Any time I switched OSs without a clean shutdown there would be substantial file corruption where the loading OS would attempt to 'fix' perceived errors.
Bitlocker: I use this for security on my work drive. I did manage to get that working however each time I swapped OS the bootloader would swap between two versions; one for the locked work drive and one for the gaming drive.
Disk boot order: I don't know how this one happened but I ended up in a situation where I could only change OS by selecting a specific disk during system startup.
I managed to mitigate some of these problems. I disabled fastboot, unmounted and offlined drives related to the other OS. This prevented the corruption issues however occasionally, often after a system update one or more of these would revert to default and cause problems again. By using a script to check for these on startup and shutdown I managed to mitigate the problem.
I never managed to work out the issue of having multiple bootloaders or the scenario where I ended up having to select drives during system startup. Perhaps a third-party bootloader could help but with the introduction of Windows 11, the mandatory use of secure boot and my use of Bitlocker I'm guessing this would be difficult at the least. Also, with secure boot, would it even be possible to use two OSs?
If anyone out there has any words of wisdom I'd be grateful.
Thanks.
BTW: My system is Windows 11 compliant and I have two licenses.
Hello,
I use my PC for both work and gaming. Unfortunately the two don't really co-exist well. Years ago I attempted multi-booting on two different drives but had issues with file corruption and bootloader confusion that I never managed to completely resolve. Below is a list of issues I came across, is there a better way of doing this stably or is it just not possible?
Fastboot: This was a killer. I learned the hard way to disable this. Each time I swapped OSs the loading OS would detect improperly closed files and other issues and attempt to 'correct' them leading to massive file corruption.
Sleep/Hibernate/power loss: Any time I switched OSs without a clean shutdown there would be substantial file corruption where the loading OS would attempt to 'fix' perceived errors.
Bitlocker: I use this for security on my work drive. I did manage to get that working however each time I swapped OS the bootloader would swap between two versions; one for the locked work drive and one for the gaming drive.
Disk boot order: I don't know how this one happened but I ended up in a situation where I could only change OS by selecting a specific disk during system startup.
I managed to mitigate some of these problems. I disabled fastboot, unmounted and offlined drives related to the other OS. This prevented the corruption issues however occasionally, often after a system update one or more of these would revert to default and cause problems again. By using a script to check for these on startup and shutdown I managed to mitigate the problem.
I never managed to work out the issue of having multiple bootloaders or the scenario where I ended up having to select drives during system startup. Perhaps a third-party bootloader could help but with the introduction of Windows 11, the mandatory use of secure boot and my use of Bitlocker I'm guessing this would be difficult at the least. Also, with secure boot, would it even be possible to use two OSs?
If anyone out there has any words of wisdom I'd be grateful.
Thanks.
BTW: My system is Windows 11 compliant and I have two licenses.
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