Trouble dual booting Windows 10 ... PC keeps restarting.

Le_Kirk

JustAnotherSaver said:

see @L@Le_Kirk ...another reason this forum isn't so great. It randomly just started putting text in bold when i stop typing for too long. And the bit i did put in bold, originally when i highlighted it it made all the stuff before that bold too for some reason even though that wasn't highlighted. And when i @ your name it puts in a double @ for some reason, but on other occasions it'll leave it at one @. Very inconsistent.

Don't know about the bold; not had that one.  I agree about the @, it is very inconsistent.  Maybe send an e-mail to the forums team, I expect (hope) they are still working their way through the list of problems that were reported when they went live on this new platform.

JustAnotherSaver

We can only hope. It's seemed to be very buggy. I thought it would've had more testing before going live but it is what it is. It seems to have stopped having a hissy fit when i scroll on my iPhone which is a relief.

debitcardmayhem

JustAnotherSaver said:

@esuhl I don't know if this is the correct one but from https://gparted.org/download.php i downloaded Download gparted-live-1.1.0-1-amd64.iso.

Thing is, how do i actually make that bootable? As it's only 300mb or so it can go to a disc if needs be as my USBs are getting taken up. Do i just left

see @L@Le_Kirk ...another reason this forum isn't so great. It randomly just started putting text in bold when i stop typing for too long. And the bit i did put in bold, originally when i highlighted it it made all the stuff before that bold too for some reason even though that wasn't highlighted. And when i @ your name it puts in a double @ for some reason, but on other occasions it'll leave it at one @. Very inconsistent.

Anyway  esuhl ... Do i just left click the gparted .iso in Windows 7 and then at the top click to burn and then it will automatically be bootable, or do i need to do anything else?

Nope you need to use something like rufus https://rufus.ie/

esuhl

JustAnotherSaver said:

@esuhl I don't know if this is the correct one but from https://gparted.org/download.php i downloaded Download gparted-live-1.1.0-1-amd64.iso.

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Yes -- that's the right one (assuming you have a 64-bit CPU).

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Thing is, how do i actually make that bootable? As it's only 300mb or so it can go to a disc...

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Yes -- it can go on a CD/DVD or a USB.  Either way, you'll need software to burn the disc or write the USB.

For CD/DVDs, DeepBurner Free is dead easy and should be self-explanatory.

https://www.deepburner.com/?r=download

For USBs, I use Balena Etcher -- again it's ridiculously simple and reliable.  As mentioned above, Rufus does the same thing.  Take your pick.

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

JustAnotherSaver

debitcardmayhem said:

Nope you need to use something like rufus https://rufus.ie/

I got it in the end. Something i've done a fair few times and i must've just had a brain fart. I right clicked the iso and went to send to > drive with blank disc in.

It then burned all the files to the disc rather than the .iso file itself which is what happened with my post you quoted.

esuhl

I'm also wondering if the problem might be related to the "active" partition attribute.

Which partition is labelled "active" after you've installed the first copy of Win10?  I believe it should be the "system reserved" partition at the start of the disk?  Is that same partition still flagged "active" after installing the second copy of Win10?

I doubt it's the cause of the problem, but maybe the second Win10 installation is incorrectly changing the active partition, resulting in one OS not booting.

(You can see the "active" flags in either Windows Disk Management Tool or GParted.)

More info if you're interested:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-biosmbr-based-hard-drive-partitions

JustAnotherSaver

Just a post to say that i'm not ignoring you. I've read the above and given thanks, just that i can't actually answer it.

The hard drive currently has Win7 and Win10 on it. I'm about to be back at work in the morning so for now i'm knocking this on the head after getting something that could work (the black screen boot mentioned earlier).

I'm going to go through all my files and have a proper sort out rather than just a quick shimmy around. With the space i might free up it might even mean that what i do changes. I don't know yet. I've been needing to have a sort out for years. I've got old statements, old draft documents, 100s of. So many audio files and various iPhone backup files, iphone photos backed up to god knows how many folders for 'just in case' it's just daft and taking up a ton of space.

Thanks to everyone who's offered help Very much appreciated.

As a side note, i should carry a link to this thread around with me. People say i'm a bad egg, bad attitude etc but this thread is proof enough. Everyone has been pleasant, patient and very helpful. It makes all the difference