I have three Windows 10 installations on separate drives on the same workstation Let's say I boot into Windows install #1 Next, I would like to boot into windows #2   Is there a way to "pre-select" Windows #2 as the active Windows installation after I reboot - WITHOUT having to press F8 to select boot device from BIOS?  Thanks!
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I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7. Windows 7 is automatically booted (default in the bootloader). On both OS I have TeamViewer installed.  When I'm working remotely and want to switch to Ubuntu I have to reboot the PC but then automatically Windows is booted again (I'm not in front of the PC, so I cannot use the bootloader). How can I in such a case switch to Ubuntu, i.e. starting Ubuntu? And how can I switch back to Windows?
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The TL;DR, added in the edit:  The question is: How can I make the BIOS prefer GRUB over Windows Boot Manager on the same UEFI boot partition? The problem is not with Grub; Grub does the right thing when the BIOS starts it. The problem is not with &quot;the disk isn't bootable,&quot; because both the Windows UEFI bootstrap and the Grub UEFI bootstrap are bootable. The problem is which UEFI bootstrap the BIOS chooses to boot from.  I'm setting up a new computer, and want it to by default boot into Ubuntu, but have the option to select Windows on boot. This is especially important if power goes out and comes back; I won't even be in the house. I started out by installing Ubuntu 17.04 on my internal NVMe disk, partitioned with GPT to use half the disk, and a separate UEFI boot partition. GRUB boots that just fine, and I see the GRUB boot menu on start-up where I can select whatever items GRUB knows about. Then I installed Windows 10 Pro from a recently downloaded ISO. It installed Windows Boot Manager onto the same UEFI partition, and left the Ubuntu intact (great!) and that boots fine into Windows 10. However, it did &quot;something&quot; that makes the UEFI firmware immediately select the Windows Boot Manager rather than GRUB on power-up. The only way to boot Linux now is to use the BIOS boot manager (F11 on my BIOS) and select the GRUB boot loader manually. The UEFI BIOS knows that there are multiple bootable installs on the UEFI partition, because I can choose between them in the boot manager. However, when I'm in the setup menu in the UEFI BIOS, it just lets me choose &quot;UEFI boot my internal drive&quot; in the boot priority selection -- it doesn't let me choose which particular boot loader on that partition to use. And, by default, it chooses Windows, not GRUB. The internets (and this site) suggests that the old way to fix this is to run update-grub (so GRUB recognizes Windows) and then grub-install (to put GRUB back on the device.) I have done this, but unfortunately, it still has the behavior as described above, where the BIOS by default chooses Windows Boot Manager. (update-grub does find the Windows Boot Manager install, and adds that to the menu, and that menu item works when I manually choose the GRUB partition in the UEFI boot manager.) What can I do to make GRUB the &quot;default&quot; boot on my UEFI boot partition? Using a MSI X399 Carbon motherboard. Second edit: Because the correct answer ends up being mentioned in a comment to a response, I'll repeat it here: &quot;BCDEDIT&quot; in an admin shell on Windows is the working solution. The others don't work.
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First I want to install Ubuntu completely, and then I want to install Windows XP 64 bit as the 2nd boot OS.  How can I do this?  Currently I am using Windows XP as the main OS and 2nd boot is Ubuntu.
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I've been reading a lot about dual-booting, and it seems as easy as loading Windows and then loading Linux with GRUB, but everybody says that Windows loves to trash GRUB when it gets the opportunity. What are some steps I can take to prevent this from happening (other than using Windows' bootloader, I want to keep this as simple as possible)?
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I bought a laptop recently. While Windows 7 was installing, the battery died. So I plugged in the charger and re-installed Windows 7 Home Basic from the start. After completion of the procedure I now have 2 Windows folders in my C:\ drive, so I deleted the old Windows folder.  The problem is, while booting time it shows two Windows 7 options, although I already deleted the old Windows folder.  How can I remove old Windows 7 option from my boot?
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In earlier Windows versions when updates were downloaded they were automatically installed the next time the PC was shutdown (and powered back on later). With Windows 10 this option seems to be gone. I can manuall trigger a restart and installation by using the button under "Windows Update" or I can let Windows reboot automatically when my PC "is not in use" (whatever that means) but I can't configure it so that the Updates get installed automatically the next time I shut down the PC.  Is there a way to get the previous behaviour back?
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Currently I am using a dual boot with Windows7 and Ubuntu 12.04LTS.  I would like to try Windows8. Not because I like it, but more and more people are using it.  I have created a partition where I would like to install it. I have only one physical drive.  What should I do to create a triple-boot and don't mess up my Ubuntu? This is my primary OS. But occasionally I need my Windows7.
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I have dual boot Win 7 Pro 64-bit and Win 8 Pro 64-bit on a Dell Optiplex 7010 MT.  How can I write two batch files on the desktop of EACH OS to tell it to reboot either into Win 7 or into Win 8.  (Four batch files total, two on each desktop.)  Need it because I frequently remote into this machine and have no way of rebooting efficiently into the desired OS.  I could use in each OS: System Properties - Startup and Recovery - Settings - System Startup - Default Operating System but it just takes too long to go there, make the setting and then do restart.  I'd like some batch files that do all of that for me.  Thanks!!
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I want it to be look like this:    I have an HDD and an SSD in my PC, I want to install Ubuntu to SSD, I have windows on HDD. I want to be able to boot ubuntu from the windows 10 uefi boot manager. How do I do it?
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I am brand new to Ubuntu. I have just build my new PC, it has 2 separate hard drives installed in it. I would like to install Windows 10 on the first SsD (They are both 250GB Samsung 850 EVO) and i would like to install Ubuntu on the other and be able to choose to use either one or the other on dual boot. As i said I am brand new to Ubuntu. In fact, I have not downloaded or installed it as yet. I would like to know if this dual booting from separate hard drives is possible.
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I am trying to migrate my current C drive with Windows 10 installed (250GB M.2 SSD) to a 1TB M.2 SSD. Both are physically installed in my PC.  I used Macrium Reflect to clone the drive to the new SSD, which was successful as they were both identical (except the extra unallocated space in the new drive). I made sure that the new drive was GPT.  I then restarted, and in the boot menu changed the boot priority to the 1TB SSD, with the 250GB SSD as second priority. The boot mode is in UEFI.  However, it didn't work and when booting, the windows icon was still next to the 250GB SSD meaning it had booted from that drive.  I then opened my PC and physically disconnected the 250GB SSD. When I started up the computer again it gave me a "Recovery - your PC needs to be repaired" error, so obviously it was not able to boot from the 1TB drive at all and was going into recovery mode instead when it couldn't find the second priority boot.   I then reconnected the 250GB SSD, but instead of booting it in second priority, I disabled it in the boot menu. But this still didn't work and windows is still booting from this drive (evidenced by the windows icon next to it).  I am at a loss as to why even after disabling it in the boot menu it is still booting from this drive and why cloning, setting the new drive as GPT and ensuring it is booting in UEFI doesn't seem to be working. I've spent hours googling this and am at a loss! Any tips would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks
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I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed as the only OS. I also have a USB stick with a Windows 7 installation on it. I want to install Windows from the USB stick on my laptop but when I try to restart the laptop to get access to BIOS, I can't seem to find the command for it, its like it skips everything and just says Ubuntu and then takes me to the login screen.  How do I change the boot priority to USB in Ubuntu?
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I installed Windows on my computer, followed by an installation of Ubuntu. However, now I'm unable to boot into my Windows install.  What can I do to fix this?
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Windows 10 lets you 'schedule' a reboot for later. I want to disable it.  Evidently Windows scheduled itself for a reboot last night when I wasn't looking and just closed everything I had been working on the night before.  I reboot on the regular; I don't need Windows to do that for me.  Can I disable it completely? I don't mind if it downloads everything, and then says "hey, you should reboot," but it should never reboot itself, ever.  I'm using the "Pro" edition of Windows 10.
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I set Windows 7 to my Boot Camp. Windows 7 starts now by default in the normal boot. However, I want that OSX boots by default and Windows 7 only as I press ALT and then select it.  How can you set OSX to boot by default?
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I'm attempting to install Ubuntu Linux alongside Windows 10 in a dual-boot configuration. However, my hard drive comes with four Primary partitions already created, as seen here in gParted:    Thus, I must remove a partition to allow for an extended partition, in which I can place my logical partitions for Linux. I'll shrink the Windows partition to create space.   I created a recovery USB drive using the HP Recovery Media Creation tool desktop app. Does this drive fully replace the functionality of either the WINRE or RECOVERY partitions? If so, can I safely remove either partition without messing up my Windows 10 installation in any way (including boot process), voiding any warranties, or preventing myself from restoring Windows 10 in the future? I know that holding Shift while clicking the Restart button will restart your computer into a special menu where you can change certain settings or boot from removable media (, step 4 in the article). Is this special menu reliant on either the WINRE or RECOVERY partitions? Is the computer in fact booting into one of these partitions to display this menu? What exactly are the purposes of these two partitions?   NOTE: I've read other questions regarding hard drives with four primary partitions already created. They don't resolve my issue, as they don't address the WINRE and RECOVERY partitions on a Windows 10 system specifically.
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I installed Ubuntu in the dual-boot configuration so that I can still boot up in Windows. But I just want to get Windows off of the machine.  Anyone know how to do this without having to go through another Ubuntu install? Also are all of the Ubuntu updates safe to take? Does Ubuntu have restore points in case something goes haywire from the updates?