But I’ve got two doubts remaining.

Currently, I’m running Windows 11, but I’d still like the ability to dual boot for certain games which don’t necessarily work with Linux for various reasons. Is it possible to move a windows install to a different drive and then install Linux on the main drive instead?

If yes, how do I do it?

Second doubt is if I’ll have many issues daily driving Linux if I have an Nvidia card

  • Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I cloned my Windows 10 install from one SSD to a bigger one. I left both drives in, told the BIOS to boot from the new one, and everything worked fine…until I wiped the old one. The next time I restarted my PC it wouldn’t boot anymore. Windows must’ve been looking for something on that drive that wasn’t there anymore. Luckily I had made a backup, so I popped in a USB with Windows 10, went into recovery mode, and told it to restore from backup. After that everything works fine again, even with the old drive being empty.

    Looking back on it I may have been able to fix it with a bootrec.exe/fixmbr command, but it didn’t occur to me at the time.