Dual Boot With Only One Drive!!

[@tattooedredheadx]

22 Years of being a computer technician and I'm still learning new DiskPart commands. Thank you!

[@Crusher9mil]

FYI right click to copy highlighted text absolutely works in the command prompt you just have to enable it. Right click the banner, select properties, on the options tab select "Quick Edit Mode" and click OK. Now you can left click drag to highlight text, right click on the white highlighted text to copy, right click again will past the copied text.

[@theodrummond6518]

😍, lucky I saw your input ☝. I was about to offer the same advice. The sequence or method of operation is not obvious but my wisdom is not from self but others on the web with superior knowledge 🙏

[@cpuuk]

Just when I think I've seen it all, you find something that's been there all along. Thx.

[@greenonline5469]

Wow, this is actually a very handy tip for me for a completely different purpose. Something I have had to do a few times in the past when recovering someone's data from a failed laptop (not failed hard drive, I've used a diff method for this) or when I've wanted to experiment when trying to fix an OS that won't boot, particularly my mother's ancient Windows Vista laptop when the motherboard died back in April this year I knew she wanted her new laptop set up as close as possible to her old one (programs and layout etc), so using this method would make it much easier for me when backing up a drive and restoring a backup to a Virtual Disk and therefore load it into a virtual machine. This allows me to see what she had setup before and exactly how she had it. My method for doing this before is actually quite messy and embarassing now I've seen this video since I feel like I should have known about this. Thank you so much, Rich! This will actually make that job much easier and tidier in the future!

[@kenshyura]

Got to download this video, it's pure gold.

[@stealthhunter6998]

Duel boot for Linux and windows 11 is something I’ve been interested in since finding out Linux gaming for single player games can actually be far more stable than windows (in terms of frametimes for UE5 games).

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Just don't do it on the same HD.

[@zapa1pnt]

@@notjustforhackers4252: It would be nice, if you were to explain Why. Please. 😁✌🖖

[@stealthhunter6998]

@@notjustforhackers4252 Oh? RIP that idea then. Even on an M.2?

[@notjustforhackers4252]

@@stealthhunter6998 Any HD. Two different operating systems, two different drives.

[@copiuum]

@@notjustforhackers4252 works for me on the same drive haha

[@wesch4232]

I have been doing multi boot Windows 10, Windows 11 and Linux Mint on the same boot storage (either SATA, SAS or NVMe) for many years. Do it only when you know how UEFI and MBR boot work. If you don't know , then don't do multi boot. Because sometimes the BCD or Grub boot will break and you have to do manual recovery. The boot recovery is not simple.

[@B3-R]

Why don't show a tutorial how to, especially for Windows -Linux, would be interesting

[@kevinwiens4804]

Rich, Please for the sake of those of us who have older eyesight could you please ZOOM-IN when you go into CMD and start typing all of those "steps"? Thanks brother...

[@zapa1pnt]

I'm with you, on that, dude! We have no need, to se the entirety of his desk top. 😁✌🖖

[@abdou.the.heretic]

Brother I'm 27 years of age, and it is torture to focus your eyes this much.

[@theodrummond6518]

Rich, you are a master, and thanks to people like you who are always willing to share knowledge.

[@vandy6578]

Hi Richard, love this video about dual boot for windows, if I would have seen this a year ago, I would not need to ask you this next question. I now am running dual boot using two drives, my old Windows 10 and the new install of Windows 11. Is there a way to create the VHDX path in windows 11 as you showed us and then do a drive image of my windows 10 drive files and place that image in the VHDX folder, then I will have one less drive on my system. I am not looking for speed here just tying to clean up my system a little. Please keep up the good work, I do learn something every time I see one of your videos.

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, there is a way to do that. Watch the video that's coming out on Monday. It shows how to image an existing drive to a vhdx and make it bootable.

[@suhaibanisansari]

​@@CyberCPUI'm waiting

[@techpc6659]

@@CyberCPU Why did you not choose to format the disk between MBR or GPT after creating the VHDX disk? I think this will cause an error when installing Windows.

[@MmmMmm-hw1pp]

Why you gave us this video AFTER i install another windows and break booting in my PC ? 🤣😂🤣😅 ...i have repair it with your other videos so we are even now. But for real, another great guide. You saved my data multiple times.

[@B3-R]

Very helpful, thanks 👌👍

[@SametKaratas-db1xu]

4:13 I use Windows 7 Enterprise on my old computer so, I can install Windows 7 Professional on a virtual disk on my old computer. Your computer by default is Windows 10 on modern computer (not compatible with Windows 7) but, mine is default: Windows 7 Home Premium or Windows 7 Ultimate

[@ericcorvers75]

You can also extend a volume in disk management. Just right click the volume and choose extend.

[@CyberCPU]

You can. However, you can't expand the size of the drive itself in disk management so since you're already in diskpart, you might as well just extend the volume there. It's more convenient.

[@sleepingiv]

Can we use this for dual booting linux also ?

[@will89687]

Question: Can you use a backup utility to clone your old drive to a USB drive, create a virtual disk on a new hard drive (with an existing OS installed, of course) then use the utility to restore the old drive to the virtual disk?

[@zapa1pnt]

That's an interesting question. It seems, to me (seems to "ME"), it would work fine. Just be sure to allow enough room, in the VD, for your clone but, as he said, you can always increase it, for new software installations. 😁✌🖖 P.S.: Remember, though, if you want to "clone", the target drive must be the same size or larger, than the source drive, because the cloning operation will clone the Entire drive, including the empty space.

[@nexusmtz]

Virtualization tools like Hyper-V Manager can directly create virtual disks from physical drives. You don't need to bounce back and forth. Also, your concept is solid, but many hard disk tools exclude virtual disks.

[@mahmoudodeh4115]

Can I use this method to install ubuntu?

[@xgui4-studios]

idk, but ypu could use Ubuntu WSL

[@yerachmielb1]

8:58 didn't you also set it to dynamically resize the virtual drive? Wouldn't that solve the issue anyway?

[@vla2uv]

OK, I got you I already knew something about this method but where exactly is that space, as virtual as it it is but since that you don't take up space from the physical drive, you also don't ad another drive where exactly is stored there must be somewhere that is taking up space from mustn't it?!

[@CyberCPU]

The virtual hard drive file that you create on the primary drive will grow as you use space in the second OS. So it will take up space on your drive but since it's dynamic that space expands as needed.

[@petermichaelcapani7253]

Rich, can I use this method to install a Linux OS?

[@TutorialecuRaul]

No, you can't, vhdx files are compatible only with Windows operating systems.

[@petermichaelcapani7253]

@ Thank you!

[@paulodagraca3469]

Just amazing, thank you 😊

[@johnhartwig314]

wouldn't it to be easier to use the program EasyBCD the change operating system names?

[@junglejamesie]

I've been using EasyBDC for ages. Great little tool.

[@MAAB_FW]

you should show the removing options. also, you can say about- it is possible with linux or not.

[@rchltmedia]

as i find elsewhere, no. not possible for now.

[@TheOne299]

​@@rchltmedia bummer

[@mikoldeon]

@@rchltmedia I wonder if it's because of Windows bootloader limits, or Grub's?

[@AllOSesOfficial]

I want to dualboot Windows 11 and 10 thanks!

[@back2basics512]

Good day, at 8:44 can we skip straight to diskpart ?

[@crazy4dariver]

As always, great info

[@kenshyura]

Great video! Great content!

[@techpc6659]

Why did you not choose to format the disk between MBR or GPT after creating the VHDX disk? I think this will cause an error when installing Windows.

[@batouttahell24]

could you use this for something like windows xp? i have a way to actually install windows xp on my laptop but am unsure if the VHDX file would even show up within the xp setup

[@cpcfreak]

So this leads me to a question, is this method viable as a way to test Win 11 on unsupported Win 10 hardware?

[@CyberCPU]

Yes. In fact that's a great use for it.

[@pedrito8249]

That's exactly how I'm dual booting in my pc!

[@michaeljavert4635]

If you have time, could you please tell me where you got your ice cream wallpaper ? I'd really appreciate it, and thank you for the video.

[@bob-9876]

What other amazing secrets have you been hiding from us? Seriously, this is a great video. Thank you! I've looked at many sites about dual booting and never even heard about this method before. I do have one question. When you are in your Windows 10 Gaming drive, can you still directly access files and folders located in your Windows 11 system?

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, your primary hard drive for your main operating system will typically be the D: drive in the secondary system.

[@srvuk]

Very useful but please update the title to reflect that this about 2 instances of Windows, not mixed OS's.

[@ShapedCrawdude57]

How did you change the Windows 11 icon in the bootloader to be the new Windows logo? Windows 11 only shows as a Windows 7-style app window and not the Windows 11 logo as it should show. This is for both the Windows 10 and the Windows 11 bootloaders on my computer.

[@__justin__]

Set Command Promt to full screen and enlarge the font: Lucida Console 24 for example. It's more visible that way.

[@junglejamesie]

So if I already have a bunch of virtual machines created in HyperV, I can use the .vhdx files as the virtual hard drives?

[@dkomso3721]

You are the best ,thanks❤

[@gummyshoribblelife]

Rich everytime i type cd vdisk it says cant find the path specified

[@Jamaldxb100]

hi how to fix. from CMD attach vdisk, virtual disk service error, the virtual disk is already attached. but not showing.

[@CyberCPU]

Run list disk and see if the vdisk is listed. If it is then it's already attached.

[@abdar-rahman6965]

You are unique 👍

[@petertech210]

I'm busy making a video about installing an os on a partition inside a vhd that sits on a partition. Funny stuff.

[@johnniequinn3215]

Looking forward to it.

[@NoNameforChannel_]

how to go to the blue screen where you can choose to which os you want to boot ?

[@maxmuster7003]

Boot manager exist since MS DOS.

[@GugliMugli-y3p]

I faced error "diskpart has encountered an error: a virtual disk support provider for the specified file was not found." There is no virtual disk selected

[@Rick__B__]

@CyberTech, can do the same thing for Linux based OSs? Meaning that Windows 11 is the primary and the Linus OS is the virtual.

[@Schubeedoobee]

why would you dual boot?

[@ChrigamingDK]

Why not? lol

[@CineLabAi]

1 for work and 1 for Gaming 🎉

[@johnniequinn3215]

I have my old Windows 10 install saved as a vhd to test software that might run differently on windows 11.

[@randomsky2008]

Can you save live running Windows 10 to virtual disk, then boot from virtual disk and upgrade it to Windows 11?

[@alfredcaleyfromwickedness2now]

How can we set it up on a Hyper Quad M.2 card OS, if your main OS dosen't show the drive on card?

[@CyberCPU]

You have to install the manufacturers storage drivers.

[@alfredcaleyfromwickedness2now]

I have an ASRock X299 Tiachi, i9 10900X CPU, 128GB Ram with Windows 11X - lite in RAID 0 on the motherboard, and Windows 10X - Lite on the hyper quad m.2 card running in VROC RAID 0.

[@alfredcaleyfromwickedness2now]

@@CyberCPU I have all the drivers from there sight for this board? and I have the Intel 660p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 3D2, QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNW010T8X1 in the Asrock hyper quad m.2 card running windows 10x lite in VROC in RAID 0 on the Asrock X299 Taichi, that I would like to get the VHD to run on it if I can figer out how. The main OS on the system is windows 11X lite, and when it's in that OS, it does not show the VROC on the card, but I can see all from the OS on the card. (the win 11 OS is on 2 Teamgroup 512 GB in RAID 0 with an extra Teamgroup 512 GB in exFAT to use for some software that can run on both.) and it would be so great to be able to run the VHD on it. I'm thinking of having two, one for games, and the other for OS's. I'm shure there's got to be a way and I'm hoping you may have the know how. I'm thank full for your responce, and God bless you Bro.

[@Kwells92]

I have this weird dual booting issue that causes my monitor to not pull up the bios.

[@nexx4582]

Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) the best :)

[@Ghisisan_]

Is there a way to access files on the original drive(maybe different partition) from within the operating system that is booted from the vhdx file? In this video, win10 would boot and run from a vhdx. Is there a way, while running win 10, to access files on the win11 drive?

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, it's automatically mounted as D:

[@2L8M8Basher]

I came across an issue, I followed your instructions but when I got to the dos prompt me current windows 11 drive is not showing as C:, it's displaying the contents of a different drive and the real C: drive with my OS on is nowhere to be found!!! Could it be that it is an M.2?

[@amerikanstafford]

+++++++++Absolutely helpful explanation.Windows 10 support is ending which works well. Although Windows 11 is full of errors and bugs Microsoft is ending support for Win10 which is an absolute disaster to the detriment of users.Windows 11 has no future and will only be fixed in Windows 12, maybe.That's why it's good to dual boot and have win10 where all programs and games work.Windows 11 is only for browsing the internet, for other things it's just garbage.I think I'll make the switch to Linux.The problem is that I've been on Windows for about 20 years and I'll have to learn Linux.

[@supergoofy123]

Thanks for the video full of info. I have to do a test for dual boot with a linux distro like Ubuntu, or even batocera, pimiga etc. This needs investigation.

[@federicocatelli8785]

In my personal experience is asking for troubles. Back in the days I bought 1 icydock flexidock to run Win 7,Win10 and Ubuntu on the same pc (3 os 3 different sata SSD)...wish there was something similiar for nvme drives.

[@0MeALot0]

You are talking like we couldn't install multipule operating systems on 1 disk before... Easybcd... I have a pentium 4 pc from 20 years back with tripple boot from 1 disk.

[@CyberCPU]

Yes, but in order to do that you had to partition the original drive. So you would lose not only the space for each additional operating system but you also lose the free space for each additional operating system. By using a dynamically expanding virtual disc you only lose the space that's needed for the OS itself.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Just NEVER dual boot Windows and Linux on the same hard drive. EVER. Anyone who suggests doing this is a fool and shouldn't be listened to.

[@zapa1pnt]

An explanation, of your reasoning would, certainly, be appreciated.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

@@zapa1pnt Ah man, so many.... Windows wiping out the Linux boot loader after an update..... Windows ( 11 ) preventing UEFI boot for Linux.... Windows not updating because it doesn't clean up its own boot partition ( and doesn't know the Linux Kernel is taking up space ).... those are the major ones. Note: Windows 10 will still have many of these issues but you can kinda do it on a GPT partition using UEFI. Trust me, I've been using both systems for decades and this is a VERY common problem, don't do it dude. Two different operating systems, two drives.

[@LionRoars918]

​@@notjustforhackers4252 .. I just dumped Linux as Grub honestly sucks. All I did was add another HD and Linux Mint 22 failed. Windows didn't care of course.

[@xgui4-studios]

But still, i is too expansive is my opinion... ​@notjustforhackers4252

[@deborahberi3249]

I'm running Win10 and I don't see those opt3ions from the Action Menu. Is Win11 required or do I have to install something like VMWare first? -Mark.

[@CyberCPU]

Make sure you don't have a partition highlighted.

[@deborahberi3249]

@@CyberCPU That must've been it...Def like this idea as a way to get Win11 small System on the same Computer without re-partitioning OR adding another Hard Drive! Great and useful Video! -Mark.

[@tubeDude48]

WHY!?

[@2018-windows-ten]

You can rename the Dualbooted windows operating system with EasyBCD

[@JendaLinda]

I've abandoned dual boot with a single drive years ago. I've got tired of Windows updates constantly ruining my setup.

[@nexx4582]

I like more ProxMox for multi-systems on 1 PC :D

[@maxmuster7003]

4 x MS DOS on 1 HDD with 510 kb each FAT16 format and all together fit in the first 2047 kb of the disk.

[@xgui4-studios]

i had a dualboot systembut broke my linux :( i have to tr-install it . i use fedora btw !

[@pabloburgos2377]

Why?

[@KniteDad]

Is Microsoft no longer giving away Virtual PC for free?

[@fredyoung5014]

I duel boot with windows 11 and android

[@CineLabAi]

Insane! 🎆 thank you! - I was just searching for that topic 2 hours ago, and you literally just uploaded this video! ❤ If you read this, you'll soon find success in your journey! May all your wishes come true! ✨️ 🙏🏼

[@KS-gn9ro]

Doesn't count if you didn't watch it :)

[@jimdavis6833]

I once had a triple boot on one drive.

[@xgui4-studios]

Bad idea

[@jimdavis6833]

@@xgui4-studios When dsone correctly by MS instructions, it works great. I had Win. XP, Win. Vista, and Win. 7. All of my files were on a different SSD. On startup, the bootloader would ask which OS I wanted to boot.

[@pieterduplessis8499]

If you read this - Maybe tell people about BOOTICE

[@xgui4-studios]

fedora > windows

[@mrgeebee1622]

Or use bcdedit, much simpler

[@AborakanBR]

salve

[@sonique88]

full useless very easy ... same disk more easy make proper dual boot older OS example win11/ windows7 and different hard disk /ssd waiting this video ... i think you found many problem this configuration ... thanks

[@MartinParkes]

Really? Tw&t lol

[@dragomirgeorge1544]

First ❤

[@acerreteq703]

Dualboot is for losers. I´m doing multiboot with .vhd files, which i can backup and restore if needed. And i´m doing this since .vhd files are available. Edit: I posted this comment just by reading the video title before watching the video.

[@CineLabAi]

😂

[@zapa1pnt]

You know, you are allowed, to state your case and process, without insulting people, if possible.

[@acerreteq703]

@@zapa1pnt Take everything with a grain of salt. If you felt insulted, only you know why. 🙂🖖

[@zapa1pnt]

@@acerreteq703: Yes, because you are an insulting *ss.

[@nexusmtz]

Making crap up is for losers. You haven't been native booting vhd since they became available on Windows (2003). You couldn't native boot until Win7/2008R2. Besides, he said HE recently learned of this, not that it was new.

[@Nick41622]

In one word. No.

[@xgui4-studios]

why not ?

[@Nick41622]

​@@xgui4-studios Why would you?

[@johnniequinn3215]

​@@Nick41622Before I upgraded to Windows 11, I made an image backup of my windows 10 setup; then used a tool to copy-convert that image into a VHDX to boot into. I did that initially to be able to test software compatibility between the two os versions. Now I'm exploring moving the vhd to a removable sdd to see if I can boot from there as well to expand on potential virtual boot options.

[@realkyledailey]

@@Nick41622 YES!

[@realkyledailey]

*BECAUSE*