One HD, 2 OSs?

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    One HD, 2 OSs?


    Can I partition a hard drive (NVMe) and install windows 10 from drive images (macrium reflect) on partitions and be able to boot into either? I'm trying to do so in facing problems. I thought that you could not do it with a traditional hard drive, but that was a long time ago.

    I'm also using Easy BCD as my boot manager.
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    Of course you can.
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  3. Posts : 30,604
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    Shouldn't be any problem. I'm doing so frequently.
    Not sure about easybcd, though.

    My approach: restoring system Image (Macrium) to empty partition, booting into Macrium USB and let it detect any new WWindows OS.

    After detection, booting into Windows and change its boot name
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    AndreTen said:
    Shouldn't be any problem. I'm doing so frequently.
    Not sure about easybcd, though.

    My approach: restoring system Image (Macrium) to empty partition, booting into Macrium USB and let it detect any new WWindows OS.

    After detection, booting into Windows and change its boot name
    That's generally what I've done. For some reason my drive image is not restoring to the additional partition, and I've tried it a few times.
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    reidthaler said:
    That's generally what I've done. For some reason my drive image is not restoring to the additional partition, and I've tried it a few times.
    Do you have enough free space? Is the new partition big enough?

    Or even better: post a picture of Disk management. Make sure that any critical info is shown

    Possible culprits (beside partition size):
    -non GPT disk, and too many partitions (probably not)
    -you didn't disable secure boot in BIOS
    -you have some kind of other disk protection
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    AndreTen said:
    Do you have enough free space? Is the new partition big enough?

    Or even better: post a picture of Disk management. Make sure that any critical info is shown

    Possible culprits (beside partition size):
    -non GPT disk, and too many partitions (probably not)
    -you didn't disable secure boot in BIOS
    -you have some kind of other disk protection
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    I'll need to pick this up later as I have errands to run

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    trying another version of the image now

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    restored partition is still empty
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    Delete existing partition (target one)
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    I deleted the partition, but then I can't selected for restore. I created another volume, and again try to restore it, and when I reboot, there's nothing in that new drive.
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    Did you delete it in Macrium?

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    I'll try that. I have to include the 2 partitions before the OS, right?
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