A SMARTER WAY TO DUAL BOOT WINDOWS...
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- In this demo, I show you a cool way to install multiple Windows operating systems on the same PC. No virtualization and No disk partitioning required.
It's simple to add or remove an operating system at any time.
You don't even need a "Main host" OS. Load diskpart from the installer and create and format a partition as NTFS on the physical disk. then use the create vdisk to create the first OS install disk on that ntfs partition.
Really? I totally never know that. But makes sense when you think about it. That's cool, I will definetely being doing that next time I rebuild my PC.
I'm curious, did you already know that or did you try it out after watching this video?
@@ClickNextDemosYou’re replying even after a year Damn
@@ClickNextDemos watched just enough of thr video to hear you mention booting from VHDs and then fired up a virtual machine with the win10 install iso and loaded diskpart.
Just tried it out, works great. I may do an updated video on this, I think it's worth knowing. I will give you a shout out on the video, unless you tell me not to.
@@ClickNextDemos you can also setup the image inside vmware (which is free now) then convert the image to vhd/vhdx using starwind v2v converter ^^
i did this to have multiple os's on my laptop (it was quicker to build them all on my desktop where i could use shared folders to the host os to quickly share files etc)
this is an excellent video man. im very impressed. this is the perfect solution for my line of work.
Glad it helped
@@ClickNextDemosokay so after having used it for a few months. This is excellent but I found one very major disadvantage of this which is that you cannot hibernate your device on the virtual windows. Would you know any way to bypass this issue?
@@muhammadahmar389 do you seriously need to hibernate? Isn't putting your computer to sleep enough?
@@julioau no not for me because I need to work on my virtual secondary windows and keep the programs open and running so that I can hibernate it and take it with me otherwise I have to spend 30 minutes just to get the programs back up and running, not just that it eats through my laptops battery to not hibernate it and I can loose all of my work if the battery dies whilst the laptop is put to sleep.
this man spoke in no english, no spanish or latin, not technical yet still precise, brother spoke in nothing but facts and did it natively
english or spanish
English > Technical. Done.
@@vi23a He sounded to me like he was speaking Australian English.
@@rayzorite im gonna touch youy ☺
@@amogus875remember
Daaam! This is the best information ever.
Thanks
Really enjoyed this new tactic for dual booting multiple OS...Please make more videos like this I would love to see this done to a NAS Western Digital external drive.
I'm amazed that you don't need external programs for this.
This is incredible.
One downside of this is that unless the host windows drive is protected the other OS can access the files. Say you downloaded a malware’virus that compromise those files. This should be used with care if intent is to protect your host OS. If direct hardware access isn’t needed then any Hypervisor to run a VM would be better.
Good point. I wonder if you could disable host OS from the Disk Management Utility so it's not accessible when booted into the other OS, I'll try it and let you know.
@@ClickNextDemos Can you dual boot to an external HD/SSD and not have access to the host OS disk?
you can unmount the partitions / drives that you do not want in diskmgr. but a clever attacker could easily re-mount them if he knew that there were other partitions that are hidden...
What I did was to enable bitlocker on the host PC disk, files can't be accessed from the VHD windows now. Because I have the VHD on a slave disk, I removed the letter from it, working still and not visible from the host
@@meddle68what is VHD?
Superb video. I run 3 OS's (11, 10 and a release preview of 11_24H2) on one HDD and have sucessfully re-edited the "descriptions" on the boot menu as per your CMD commands. Thanks, and thumbs up.
Awesome. Glad you could make use of this method, it's pretty cool.
why you need 3 os but all is windows?
@@shiftto It was just a demo how it can be done, but here are a few examples of why you might want to run multiple versions of a Windows OS.
A separate OS for work or business
A separate OS for personal stuff
A separate OS for gaming (where OS is optimised for gaming)
A separate OS for running release previews of upcoming versions of Windows
A separate OS for experimenting with software
@@ClickNextDemos This is so sick.
I really wanted yo try Ameliorated Windows for gaming but It wrecks stuff I need for university(Crappy Autodesk BS).
This is awesome!
Interesting video 👍 we've done dual boot using Ubuntu and windows 10 in college, using VM ware Pro 17. Love your method & differs a bit from one we use & looks easier too. Thanks 👍
Just wow! Thank you bro I have a few customers where my peoduct does not work on there windows version I always told them to use dual boot but they just don’t get it to work with this it will be 100% easier video is so easy and just such a smart and nice way todo it Thank you!
Awesome, glad it can help.
Great video! This method is simpler than resizing the hard drive and allows multiple systems to run. Thanks!
Why did i not find this a year ago - lol - Truly amazing video - thank you very much for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Remeber to use previous version of setup (option available on screen when you choose whether to repair your pc or install windows 11) when installing Win11 on vhdx otherwise it might give you "Windows 11 installation has failed".
Great comment. There is a bug with the Windows 11 - 24H2 installer which causes the install of Windows 11 to fail when installing to a VHD or VHDX file. But choosing the option to "Use previous verison of setup" works fine so you will need to ensure you choose this option when installing 24H2, otherwise the install will fail at the end
@ClickNextDemos
I want yo install it debloated using autonatted.xml
What do to in such case because it doesn't ask for that option if using this xml
may i ask that you write all the commands on a notepad file and share in comments as many of us are not so use to dos and you covered way more than I can remember. When I started doing the work, I didn't have youtube available to refer back to, thus a notepad file that I could have printed would have been helpful, thank you. Very good work.
Wow totally didn't expect to learn something new. Great info, nicely told. Thank you!!
Concise and to the point 👏👏 thank you❤️
So cool. I have seen this for the first time. Excellent job mate.
Thanks a lot!
For me, it doesn’t work anymore starting from the point with CMD. Nothing works after that. I can still access C:, but when I try cd vhdx, it says something like its not existing . I’ve redone everything several times and have no idea what else to do. When I Go in Windows and try the command its finding it
Thru grub it lets me choose Windows or what Linux, upon Windows ut takes me to versions of Windows to choose from.
Just use Separate drives for separate OS, VHDX slows the performance
it doesn’t
A compact solution and fully packed tutorial for windows 10 lovers but wanna give the 11 a try , too.
Thanks
my system doesn't even support 11, it was made a month before 7 came out.
06NinjaKid06 Don't worry, 11 is bad and has windows recall
@@n646n ik
Wow! Just found this, pretty much by accicent! I'm amazed, how come I've never come across this before! Very well explained, thanks! 😀
This does add a higher cpu load when doing any disc access but it is very handy
Haven't noticed this but also never measured it before.
If you boot between two different hard drives you can use a tool called Reboot from Neo Smart Technologies. It lets you fast boot into the other drive right from your windows notification area. No longer have to choose to shut down then choose an os to boot into.
That sounds cool, I'll take a look. Thanks.
@@ClickNextDemos Sorry, typo above. The tool is called iReboot.
Marvelous🙂 things to try ==> install vhdx files on a secondary disc, install a Linux distro on a suitably formatted vhdx file 🙂🧐🙂
Did you try it out? :)
This was a very well produced video. However, you never mentioned about the recovery partition that was created after installing Windows 11 as a secondary OS. I had to figure out how to delete that first before I could increase the capacity of the virtual disk. It took me forever to figure out how to do that. Once I did everything was fine.
Good point, that would have been useful to include in the video. That was an oversight on my part. Glad you worked it out though.
This is incredible. Thanks a lot for sharing this!
Hello. Very very interesting method ! Thx !
Can you answer me these two questions ?
1) Is there a significant perfomance impact, when running windows from a vhd ?
2) Is there any program or method on the planet to HIDE the "Parent OS drives", perceived from each respective Sub-OS ? I mean on a very early, low-level layer.
I would even buy a specific mainboard for just that
There is no noticeable difference in performance when running on a VHD. Regarding hiding the parent OS drive, I think you could remove the drive letter assigned to it in the disk management utility which would prevent the drive from showing up in file explorer. I’ll test it and let you know.
@@ClickNextDemos Aww, nice of you, but don't bother. I think of viruses. Imagine one "dirty" OS for gaming and risky stuff, and one "clean" OS for your business/work needs. I would not trust the "shallow" hiding via disk management utility. I think real Gurus could do some magic on an EFI console, on very specific mainboards....
I'm just looking into "OcuLink" right now, maybe one can easily swap around NVMEs like Cartridges :)
Good video, though I found it a bit odd to boot into the Windows setup and attach the VHD from there to install to it, my preferred method is initializing the disk and creating the partition from inside of Windows itself, then using the DISM tool to deploy the OS image to the VHD, then using BCDBoot to create the boot configuration data (though I'm not sure if you need to install the Assessment and Deployment Kit for BCDBoot)
Thanks - I'll take a look a that approach.
How come this is 1 year old and i'm just getting it on my feed? this looks sick, really might do it.
UA-cam algorithm. The video did ok for about a year, then I changed the Thumbnail and title and it doubled in views.
This is pretty helpful, i was always using the partiton method which can be a pain to get rid of, Keep upthe good work!
Same! OMG where has this been all my life 😂
Wow, never thought about this way of dual booting before. Thank you very much!
Could you also explain how to decrease the size of the virtual disk? You said it is harder, but what if i need to?
And can virtual disks be used for linux too and how?
Not that I know of. You need to be able to mount the VHDX file during the Linux setup and I don't it's possible to do this with Linux installers. So Windows OS only I'm afriad.
I wish I knew about this years ago. Thank you ❤🎉😊
Awesome video. I’ve done a win 10 > 11 upgrade and it works but BSOD’s under certain circumstances. So I’ll restore w10 and do a separate virtual drive like you. One concern if henceforth I only use the win11 install because w10 is soon dying will there be a security concern since w10 was the parent installation host ??
Never knew you could do this.. Thanks for the tutorial
Nice trick! I like it a lot, I'm gonna start doing this. Thanks!
Nice and clear - worked a treat for me updating from 10 to 11 !
Not just enjoyed it, but love your work....keep it up mate!!
Thanks. This is one of the best video I've ever seen because I never knew this things.
Thanks, glad you liked it.
This is brilliant! Thank you for this walkthrough and tutorial. Subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
Very awesome video. Saving this for future reference.
very slick, had no idea this was an option
And what will happen if i installed windows 7. Please answer
Windows not likely to work due to lack of full support for UEFI parition layouts.
If you use an old MBR style partition, it "might" work.
However, I would not recommend using Windows 7 due to it being a discontinued Operating System and no longer receiving security updates from Microsoft which means it's no longer a safe Operating System to use.
What an informative, educational and interesting video, liked and subscribed
Thanks
Wow! So useful, love your informative way of explaining everything here. Not too useful to me now, but definitely may be in teh future!
Thanks for the comment.
Followed your footsteps and encountered a weird problem. My dual boot GUI will have inverted color and stretched out screen after few of the updates. Only way to resolve it was clean uninstall the gpu driver and the problem would still come back. Also the windows loading of the child system is much slower than having it clean installed to a separate ssd storage. This so far is definitely a form of simulated environment of experiencing win11 or 8 for instance and will have a lot of unseen issues and instabilities. Definitely not recommended unless you got all the time in the world to tinker the virtual drive dual boot issues time to time.
I've been running Windows 11 as a gaming setup with an nVidia graphics card installed to a VHD for last two years and haven't seen any issues at all. It may be limited to your particular hardware or configutation. It's running natively on the hardware (so there is no simulation), the only difference is that the files are stored on a virtual disk instead of a physical disk.
Using it, Works Beautifully, but you cannot attach vdisk in windows setup if the bitlocker is enabled, so disable bitlocker before you try to install, How do you record while the pc is turned off are you doing everything in a virtual machine??
I think it may be possible to do on Bitlocker disk if you unlock the drive before mounting the VHDX file. You can use the "Manage-BDE" command to unlock the drive, then mount the VHDX file and install Windows to it.
Although, decrypting the disk, installing the additional OS, then re-encrypting afterwards would also work.
Regarding the recording, in this video, yes I used a Virtual Machine (Hyper-V). But I also often use an Elgato capture device as well some times if I need to properly record a pc rebooting.
I'm stuck in the windows setup I keep getting error says "we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one"
Since windows 10 and 11 if you put 2 windows ssd in same pc last installed windows makes corrupted lastest installed first one , for example i have windows 11 ssd for main , then insert external windows 11 or 10 ssd to pc , in this case main ssd is bootmgr files corrupted , why and how? , I want to use same ssd in all pcs like a brain
@ClickNextDemos Thanks for the video! Is it possible to clone my current operating system and mount it as a dual boot?
I would say yes but it's not easy to explain in a UA-cam comment. Perhaps will do that in a future video if there is demand for it.
What about Bitlocker ? How to encrypt the work station ? How to prevent the gaming station to write/read the other?
Yes, the way to stop access to one of the other OS is to enable Bitlocker on the OS you don't want to be available (Don't enable Bitlocker on the host OS).
Be aware that once Bitlocker is enabled on the OS, you will need to make a change in the registry relating to the Windows Page File, otherwise no page file will be used.
New video coming soon.
Wow this is amazing!
I wonder if I need a new product key for the Windows installed on VHD.
If your PC was activated with Windows 10 or Windows 11 previously, as long as you installed the same "edition" eg. Home or Pro, then it should automatically activate.
Welp, this is the "same" system used for running the kernel and all other stuff in the xbox, just to show how reliable and secure it is.
2:39 how did you show only the year in the clock?
Go into Control Panel, Region Settings, additional Settings, Date tab. Change "Short date" to YYY. Go back to Time tab and change "Short time" to SS.
As far as I know, Windows only.
this is very good idea. however, If i would try to create a vhd disk on an external "nvme enclosure disk", usb key or an SD card... i cant later on point this wirtyal disk for installation. I also tried to first install and later copy this vhd disk to external drive but then I have no idea how to point bootloader to read from this external drive. is there a way to do that?
Just a note
If you delete the virtual drive you may get a BSOD that says you need to repair you PC but press F9 and select another OS
If you are going to delete a virtual drive, I would recommend removing the boot entry from the Boot menu at the same time.
Small question, does linux work instead of windows? would be great to know (my parent PC is windows 11. and i would want to boot into Linux/ubuntu)
Not that I know of. You need to be able to mount the VHDX file during the Linux setup and I don't it's possible to do this with Linux installers. So Windows OS only I'm afriad.
@@ClickNextDemos thanks for letting me know! great video!
does this work if the virtual disk is on a different drive like the d drive?
Yes, as long as the host can see the physical disk, it can be on any disk. I would only recommend using fixed disks though, and not USB external drives.
Great video! Thanks! Can you also install in the virtual disk a linux distribution? Or does this only work for windows distributions?
not sure, but he did mention that windows os with no uefi support won't work. so, maybe something similar in case of a linux distro? i can't tell, need to test. for now i'm going with virtualbox.
I've just had a go installing Mint with WIn11 as the Host OS. I hit a roadblock attaching the vhdx disk during install. Install happens in a linux live environment instead of Windows live environment so the commands shown in this video didn't work. Attempt aborted, more research needed...
I wonder if you had a way to just expand the Linux ISO onto the VMDK under Windows and then reboot. Not sure if that would work. Probably have to do some bcdedit work 🤔
@@DoctorWossname thanks a lot for informing us this.
It may be possible, but not without a lot of work.
My educated guess would be to do this you'd need to create a very small Linux partition that would be able to mount Windows drives and mount a VHDX and use that as a rootfs.
Great video !
I was immediately thinking that now I could install XP and Win7.
But you explained why not - as it is not possible to mix UEFI and MBR.
Unless you do some fancy stuff in your BIOS setup when booting up.
But it should work with Linux multiboot as well ?
probably? but you would have to play arround with grub after installing windows or modify your windows boot manager and add an option for linux
Is there a way to prevent the guest OS from having access to the host OS? Or other guests?
How is this different than making a VM on VMWare workstation? I want the other OS to not have access to the parent OS
It’s very different. Installing in VMware means the OS is running in virtualisation. Installing to a VHDX means the OS is running on the physical hardware (Bare metal). I haven’t found a reliable method to restrict access to the other OS unfortunately.
Can I have on the one atlasOS and on the other „parantos“ normal my win11 with out any problems?
Yes you can. In fact that is a great example of why someone may want to dual boot this way.
@ ah okay thank you so much
6:05 it's giving me a error message saying, "The arguments specified for this command are not valid." Please help
Check you are entering the command correctly and also ensure you are using the correct drive letter, path and filename for your virtual disk file.
@@ClickNextDemos i did, I triple checked
Can the child/guest OS be Ubuntu? with bitlocker on in windows?
I have some questions, could you install linux or is this limited to windows only? what about secure boot? considering most linux distros aren't signed would this mean that they wouldn't work?
this would be great for linux considering if you want to dual boot, windows tends to delete grub or any boot manager from the drive if there is an update...
Not that I know of. You need to be able to mount the VHD file during the setup process so you can tell the Setup program where to install Linux to. I'm not aware of this being possible with Linux, but I'm not to up on Linux. It's a popular request though, so I will look into to see if it can be done. If there any Linux experts out there, I would love to know if this is possible as there are a lot of people requesting this.
Amazing technique , Bravo
thanks
edit: fixed by simply assigning a letter to the partition
When I try this method, using Ventoy as you did, the partition that has the VHDX file doesn't have a letter in disk part, therefore I can't mount the vhdx file since I can't CD to that drive, why is that?
Hi @stearless
I didn't use Ventoy to create this dual method.
The only reason you see any mention of Ventoy is becuase my Windows 11 installation media is on a Ventoy USB. I should have used a regular USB drive with Windows 11 installation media to avoid any confusion. Hope that makes sense. I'm glad you fixed it.
@@ClickNextDemos Not sure though if Ventoy is causing partitions not to have letters or it's a problem with my main system
@@stearless I re-read your original comment and understand what you mean now. Yes, you can simply assign a drive letter the partition that has the VHDX file if it doesn't already have a drive letter assigned. You can use this command from within the Diskpart utility
assign letter=
For example, to assign the letter D: to the partition, from within the diskpart utility, you would use the following-:
assign letter=D
Thanks for sharing that, it will help others who want to try this out.
@@ClickNextDemos edit: again answering my own question, I just booted into the virtual system and expanded to the available unallocated space within disk management, cheers
Could you explain how to expand the vhdx file afterwards, I set it to 30GB but it became full very quickly, expanded it via disk part from main OS to 50, but when I boot into it it's still 30GB, what am I doing wrong?
Windows 11 24H2 doesn't work with it ... the label c: is suppressed ... you just have volumes and partitions ... i don't know if it will work with the next Servicepack ...
Windows 11 24H2 does indeed work. Your issue is nothing to do 24H2. Your main host disk is not assigning a drive letter to it, when you boot from the Win11 media.
When you boot from the Windows 11 installation media and press SHIFT F10 to open a command prompt, run diskpart then once you are in the diskpart prompt, type "Assign" without the quotes.
This will then assign the next available drive letter which in your case should be C:\
because you don't currently have any drive letter assigned. C:\ is the first one that will get assigned.
By the way, once you get past that, 24H2 does have a big in the setup application where the install fails at near the end when installing to a VHDX instead of a real disk.
Easy way to resolve is to click on "Use previous version of setup"
It's in the bottom left corner of the screen during installation.
@ClickNextDemos Thank You for Your Advices The Installation with SP 23H2 Win11 works fine but failed with 24H2 Win 11 as you said. The Drivers i took from c:\windows\system32\driverstore and copied to the Win 11 Installations USB-Stick. But withe Drivers-update its difficult. It fails.
Great and concise tutorial!
thanks
This did not work for me. It refused to allow the installation, and I can't find anything online that would indicate why. The logs aren't much help either.
Hello, if the Host OS is encrypted using bitlocker, will the guest OS be automatically bitlocked since it's on the same drive? I want to make each OS to be isolated through different bitlocker keys, is that possible on the same real drive?
Yes, if your host drive is encrypted with bitlocker then the vhd files would be encrypted. You would need to mount the bitlocker drive during the setup process. Ive never tested it so not sure how well that would work. In your scenario it may be better to install a second drive and put your vhds on that then enable bitlocker on the individual vhds. Again I’ve never tried but would be interested to see if it would work.
I am new to this stuff how do I get it to run the windows boot for the new drive on restart mine just restarts into the current OS and don't get an option to install windows 10 to the new drive before I boot
you don't need virtual disk file
if your disk has a gpt partition table (mbr has a limitation of 4 partitios),you can just install it on a different partition on the windows setup usb
Virtual disks help improve the management - you don’t see all partitions from all OSes, and that can reduce confusion. But yes it’s up to you pretty much.
On legacy boot you can have Windows itself live on a logical volume in the extended partition so not that much of a concern with partition counts either.
Yes, but when you create a partition you have to first shrink your main partition (this is slow and requires specialised software) and create a new partition. This dedicates, say 100GB to the new OS and can't easily be expanded.
With a VHD you can set it to automatically expand and it'll start out only using the disk space it actually needs
I think you've missed the point of the video. I was trying to show the simplicity and convenience of adding and removing OS at any time. I would say this method is easier than creating separate partitions for each OS, then repartitioning the disk again later if you want to remove an old OS.
@@u1f98a If only Windows dynamic disks were as flexible as Linux LVM…
the system cannot find the part specified. when i type in cmd.
very neat baretemetal multi os
Do you really need to go into command prompt at boot time, to attach the VHD? I believe you can attach the VHD after creation, within the Disk Management program in the host Windows.
But it won't be attached after you reboot.
entering the command "c:" it responds with access denied I made sure all users and groups had permission over the drive but nothing changes any ideas?
It may be that your main hard drive is encrypted with bitlocker. If so you either need to use the manage-bde command to mount the encrypted volume which would then let you access the encrypted drive, or turn off bitlocker completely
When I load into windows 10 from windows 11, my windows 10 does not have wifi. Any idea how I can fix this? My lan cable doesn’t work so I can’t use lan
I suspect you need to install a driver for the Wi-Fi adapter. Check Device Manager in your Windows 11 system to see what your Wi-Fi adapter is called. Then download the driver (use google to search for the download). Save the driver software somewhere, then boot into Windows 10 and install the driver.
Very cool... but only for Windoze versions... not Linux (?)
Not that I know of. You need to be able to mount the VHD file during the setup process so you can tell the Setup program where to install Linux to. I'm not aware of this being possible with Linux, but I'm not to up on Linux. It's a popular request though, so I will look into to see if it can be done. If there any Linux experts out there, I would love to know if this is possible as there are a lot of people requesting this.
Very nice, thanks for the info.
Question: Can you install other OSs besides Windows with this method?
Not as far as I know. You need to be able to mount the Virtual disk during the installation of the new OS, and I'm only aware of Windows being able to do this.
@@ClickNextDemos so no cachyos + win10 :(
can you mover all your data from one OS system to another and then delete the first OS system?
I followed and did the same as you, but i have win11 and wish to download win10, after booting into wins 10 install and opening cmd, i type c: then cd vhdx but i get “the system cannot find the path specified”.
I even went back to main drive and confirmed the path specified, tried renaming it and still nothing. Can anyone please help
That's interesting, was aware of multi boot by partition but not using virtual disk files. Have you run a disk performance test to see if there's any notable performance impact?
I haven't run any disk benchmarks but as far as I know, performance is barely any different than running directly on the physical disk. And in real world useage, I use a VHD for my gaming setup and do not notice any loss of performance.
@ClickNextDemos My triple boot currently uses dedicated partitions. I'm thinking I'll change this in the future. What's also interesting is the ability to copy these files between disks or systems without the need for specialized tools.
Super star, exactly wat I was looking for. Great demo. Tar very much
Thanks - Glad you liked it!
I tried creating a Windows 10 install and when I get to the installer, select the vhd, and select next, it says "Se couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one."
Edit: I figured it out, i didn't properly reformat my old SSD that used to be my boot drive in my old PC, found this out after seeing 2 boot managers in BIOS, after properly formatting it, this tutorial works flawlessly!
Wow that's a good 15 minutes of my life
Thanks for the video, very useful. Question: can you dual boot Windows and Linux using this method?
Not that I know of. You need to be able to mount the VHD file during the setup process so you can tell the Setup program where to install Linux to. I'm not aware of this being possible with Linux, but I'm not to up on Linux. It's a popular request though, so I will look into to see if it can be done. If there any Linux experts out there, I would love to know if this is possible as there are a lot of people requesting this.
Can you do this with linux distros as well?
I have an old PC with Windows 8...and just purchased a new Windows 11 machine. If I move the old hard drive to the new computer, how can I set this up? I dont need to install windows as I am moving over the entire hard drive.
It's possible to do, but I'm not sure why anyone would want to do this.
You could just move the drive to the new pc, and it should boot ok but you will likely need to install some drivers for the hardware in the new pc.
Also, it depends on why you want to do this as there may be a better way.
If you just want to access some of the applications and data from your Windows 8 PC, you could consider converting that Windows 8 Phyiscal disk to a virtual disk. You can convert the Windows 8 disk to a virtual disk, then use Virtualisation software on your new Windows 11 PC and create a virtual machine and attach the virtual disk to this virtual machine.
You could then run your Windows 8 OS inside your Windows 11 machine.
You could use Hyper-V, Oracle Virtual Box, or VMWare Workstation to run the Windows 8 VM.
These are all free virtualisation apps.
@@ClickNextDemos thank you for the response. I will look into this.
Can I use this method to ad a virtual drive of the Haiku OS to the boot menu?
Very cool! Thanks a bunch. Are you able to do major/feature updates like 24H2 with the VHDX installs? When I tried native boot like this several years ago, I would get error messages that updates could not be install on VHD(X?) files.
yes, updates should work fine.
Thank you buddy, this peace of information was very much needed. using this I can setup multiple os windows and linux both and also can setup different one or gaming and light work differently and for my data science.
would love to collaborate with you.
Great video
Thanks!
This is brilliant
Thank you
Very good. Thank you.
I run into some error when locating the vhdx file, saying I should turn off bitlocker. If I decide to turn it on again would i still be able to boot from the vhdx drive?
You don’t need to turn off bitlocker but you will need to mount the encrypted drive after you boot from the USB media and open the command prompt.
You need to use a command called manage-bde to mount the encrypted drive. You will need your bitlocker recovery key for this.
Google manage-bde for how to use it
I'm currently using Windows 10 at the moment but I want to install Linux Mint 22. So is it possible that you could do a video tutorial on dual boot for Linux Mint 22 on Windows 10.
Not as far as I know. You need to be able to mount the VHD file during the Linux Setup and I don't think it's possible to do with Linux.
I have a AOMEI Backupper backup of my current windows and i want to restore that image to a virtual drive how can i do this?
Follow the same process but boot up with the aomei boot media instead of windows boot media. There is an option to open a command prompt where you can then mount your vhdx file. Then restore your image from the aomei restore wizard.
@@ClickNextDemos I have save my current os backup but that backup contain three partition 1st one is EFI System partition 100MB 2nd is Recovery partition 641mb and the last main os drive is 300 gb now i have tried to install the os only and its not working it require other two partitions to boot
Many thanks - great tutorial, but I have a problem. When I get to the command prompt window (Shift+F10) it's not finding my C: drive - i.e. I have 3 seperate disks in my machine, when I type in C: it's showing my D: I've tried E: F: G: etc and no joy - How can I find my C: drive? Thanks in advance
It may be that your C: drive is appearing as a different drive letter which sometimes happens if you have multiple disks in a system. Try looking at D: to see if it shows the contents from your C: drive.
If still no joy then it may be that your C: drive does not have a drive letter assigned at all, so in that case you can assign a drive letter to it.
During Windows Setup, press Shift and F10 to get to a command prompt and type Diskpart to go into the Diskpart tool.
You can use the following commands to select a disk, select a volume and assign a drive letter.
List Disk
Select Disk x (where x is the number of the disk you want to select)
List volume
Select volume x (where x is the volume you want to select)
Assign (which will assign the next available drive letter to the volume)
It doesn't matter what drive letter gets assigned at this point.
You can usually identify which is volume for your "C:\" drive by looking at the size of the volume. That will usually give you an idea of which one to select.
@@ClickNextDemos Perfect, Many Thanks but I've npw ran into another problem. I'm trying to install another instamnce of Windows 11 24H2 and it fails every time. It gets to about 77% and then just thrpwa up am error of Windows 11 failed to install. I'm going to try with Windows 10 and then will upgrade (if it works)mbut that's a job for tomorrow
@@ady199 Windows 11 24H2 has a new installation routine which had a bug in the installer causing the installation to VHDX to fail.
During the setup, look for an option called “Use previous version of setup”
Choose this and windows 11 will then install correctly.
@@sfernleyFinally got it to work - Thanks for all your help with this.
I’m following this tutorial word for word, and when I’m installing windows 11, it just fails and takes me back to the installation media again? Any tips?
Fixed my own problem, picked the wrong install menu