Grub4Dos 64 How To Add Windows

In addition to installing the latest features of the tool, it also provides you with various operations to manage Grub2 File Manager, Secure Boot and Grub4Dos.

In addition, the app downloads the current Grub4Dos files to the existing system used and makes them ready to use.

On a side note, the aforementioned files are signed by Microsoft, according to the developer.

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It came with Windows 8.1 installed.

I then installed another copy of Windows 8.1 (so it would use the built-in Windows Pro license) and upgraded it to Windows 10.

However, if I select the Windows 8 option, I then get sent to the Windows bootloader, where it then gives me options to boot either Windows 8 or Windows 10.

Apparently Microsoft misunderstood the concept of a boot loader and decided that that meant boot practically the entire system before actually showing the bootloader.

Grub4Dos 64 How To Add Windows

However, I still do not know how to add Windows to the GRUB OS list.

However, I then later deleted Windows 10 from the list of OSes in msconfig, and it seems to have stayed deleted.

Once youve saved the edit, run sudo update-grub to generate the bootgrubmenu.cfg file and then restart to test.

I remember that it was possible on legacy setups to directly boot the Windows kernel from Grub (I may be wrong here) but I havent been able to do this on UEFI setups.

Having two independent Windows bootloader configurations that can be called from Grub independently should be very close to what you are looking for.

You can use Windows dism to backup and restore partitions to a new partition table layout and use the command prompt from latest Windows installation media to reinstall the bootloader, more details on this in the next point.

You will need to do this for every Windows installation, so that every Windows installation has its own and will only boot itself (clean the individual Windows boot menus from other entries).

UEFI allows coexistence of several bootloaders on the ESP and you can choose which one to boot (if they have been registered in the UEFI firmware and the manufacturers firmware doesnt do out of spec patronizing like only booting Windows).

The sad thing here is that only very few people can think about installing more than one (independent) version of Windows, Linux or one release of Ubuntu onto one computer (or a harddrive that is used with several computers and boots a different installation of the same OS release on each computer).

Most of this is already possible, but mechanisms in Windows and Ubuntu (Fedora,) plainly choose to overwrite what is in their namespace under the false assumption that there can only be one.

The system I have available is Ubuntu 14.04, which is the same machine Im trying to install Windows 10 to.

If you have the Windows 10 Setup ISO, extract all its contents to a separate partition, and then add a grub boot entry to boot from there.

Remember dont extract it into a Folder, just put all in the root of the drive(like D: or E:).

Windows can not see ext34 filesystem, so put it either in a NTFS or Fat1632 partition.

Now restart your computer and select Windows 10 from boot menu to continue installation.