- Jul 25, 2006
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I would like to resolve the issue(s) I am having; but, am at least interested if it would be consistent amongst current Windows 10 compliant/certified/approved laptop systems, or a quirk of the model I use:
An ASUS N550, of which I removed the ODD and installed a second SSD. I presently have Win10x64 independently installed on each drive (though the current working boot state require some redoing and ordering of installs). *The primary is GPT and the secondary ended up being MBR, so I think the issues may stem from one drive having a dependency on the utility/boot partition on the other shared by both.
The primary drive receives preferential boot-ordering from the mainboard, such that cold boots and otherwise non-restarts end with the bootloader disregarding my button mashing for bootable device selection. I have to let Windows on the primary SSD boot, and restart the machine to then select the secondary drive. Even hibernation states on the secondary SSD are ignored/lost/discarded on the next boot. Similarly, I cannot hibernate and persist the working state of the primary SSD to boot the secondary... Unless I intend on booting from a hibernated primary SSD OS state back into the same, the functionality and (my expectation of the) flexibility are lost.
I haven't been able run the secondary drive, a Samsung 840 EVO, with BitLocker.
The largest potential risk I have already experienced is a Cumulative Windows Update to the one disk + OS causing the other to unbootable or inoperable. This happened in Nov. with the 1511 update. I installed on the secondary, and couldn't boot the primary. I had to reinstall both OS instances, and humpty-dumpty two bricked file systems back together.
Has anyone else experienced similar difficulties in a dual-disk, dual-boot (laptop) situation?
Seems that this will need to be addressed by manufacturers soon, as generic consumer models of 5th-gen Intel Core systems and higher are shipping with an empty ODD bay and a blank cover.
Maybe the solution is waiting for multi-TB SSDs to swap in as a primary, dual-boot from, and any remaining SATA or similar bays/slots set as backup storage?
An ASUS N550, of which I removed the ODD and installed a second SSD. I presently have Win10x64 independently installed on each drive (though the current working boot state require some redoing and ordering of installs). *The primary is GPT and the secondary ended up being MBR, so I think the issues may stem from one drive having a dependency on the utility/boot partition on the other shared by both.
The primary drive receives preferential boot-ordering from the mainboard, such that cold boots and otherwise non-restarts end with the bootloader disregarding my button mashing for bootable device selection. I have to let Windows on the primary SSD boot, and restart the machine to then select the secondary drive. Even hibernation states on the secondary SSD are ignored/lost/discarded on the next boot. Similarly, I cannot hibernate and persist the working state of the primary SSD to boot the secondary... Unless I intend on booting from a hibernated primary SSD OS state back into the same, the functionality and (my expectation of the) flexibility are lost.
I haven't been able run the secondary drive, a Samsung 840 EVO, with BitLocker.
The largest potential risk I have already experienced is a Cumulative Windows Update to the one disk + OS causing the other to unbootable or inoperable. This happened in Nov. with the 1511 update. I installed on the secondary, and couldn't boot the primary. I had to reinstall both OS instances, and humpty-dumpty two bricked file systems back together.
Has anyone else experienced similar difficulties in a dual-disk, dual-boot (laptop) situation?
Seems that this will need to be addressed by manufacturers soon, as generic consumer models of 5th-gen Intel Core systems and higher are shipping with an empty ODD bay and a blank cover.
Maybe the solution is waiting for multi-TB SSDs to swap in as a primary, dual-boot from, and any remaining SATA or similar bays/slots set as backup storage?
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