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Help Dual Booting Win 10 on Notebook With 500GB HDD and 256GB SSD PCIe
I'm getting my first new notebook computer in 7 years. I have been told that the OS will come installed on the faster SSD drive. I want to install fresh copy of win 10 on to the 500GB HD just in case the SSD should crap out or just to use for troubleshooting. After installing a fresh copy of win 10 using the media creation tool I want to be presented with a boot screen at boot up allowing me to choose which hard drive I want to boot from. Tech support in so many words told me this. Any help or clarification or insight is greatly appreciated. Again, I have not as yet received the notebook. Thank you.
Speaking with tech support without the aforementioned serial number was a chore and a half since the rep I got INSISTED that he could not answer my tech question without first knowing the serial number blah, blah, blah but I was pretty insistent and he let me go ahead and ask. I posted this here last week and got some help but I wanted to dig deeper:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/co..._p51_this_way/
When I get the machine I want to dual boot in case the primary OS craps out. Box will come with a 500GB 7200rpm HDD as well as one 256GB SSD PCIe MLC OPAL2. I am assuming that the OS is installed on faster SSD. I want to image the SSD using either Acronis True Image or the free maximum reflect or Clonezilla either one I believe will accomplish the task and write that image to an external disk. Then I want to write the image back to the 500GB 7200rpm HDD ( I know I need to make the Hdd active so that it will boot before writing the image.) I believe I know I can just get a clean win 10 OS and install it on the 500GB but I would like to see if I can do it this way first. After I write the image I should be able to shut down and then restart and windows will present me with a boot sequence where I can choose which drive I wand to boot, right? Do I need to do anything in the bios to make this work or is this method as I have described it good to go? TIA
P.S. Now, instead of cloning the SSD I am just going to go with a fresh copy of win 10 for the HDD.
Tech support was difficult to understand but this is what he said I should do before going ahead with the install of the fresh copy of win 10 on the HDD so that I could dual boot. Any comments and clarification appreciated.
- Before install go into the bios (F1) and go to security and select disable secure boot.
- X - out of security and I should see an option for "Restart."
- I asked him if I am exiting out of the bios should I save the change he just suggested and he said no. After exiting security I should see "option restart" at lease that is what I think he said.
- I should then see something and I really could not understand him at this point "load setup default" and _OS option default and I should DISABLE that. And then save and exit out of bios. And then proceed with the fresh install of win 10 on to the HDD and after that has completed I could then restart and I should be presented upon boot up with a boot screen asking me which hard drive I want to boot from.
Soooo. Does any of this sound familiar and do you all agree with these steps? As I said he was difficult to understand so I may have mangled the instructions but nonetheless guidance would be appreciated particularity regarding the steps he gave me. Thanks