Emperor And by simply choosing to boot the secound HDD from BIOS I will automatically have a choice to boot W10 or Solus?

  • Yes. Because Grub detect automatically it. Windows by other hand don't do that and don't care if you have installed Linux.

Be careful during installatin where you choose to install grub bootloader, because you have to select the Linux HDD.

      algent Well let the games begin 🙂
      I will keep in touch to post about eventual problems.

        algent Oh I forgot...while installing Windows there was a problem with the motherboard-when you install the drivers for usb 3.0 the system would crash and not boot...do you think the same problem will occur when installing Solus and how can I stop it from installing that driver?
        Because if it crash I honestly don't know how I will manage it 🙂
        The secound professional that tried to install me that driver ended up saving the system via back up...but now we are talking Linux xD

            Emperor I don't think so. I also use a USB 3.0 type. If you can enter in Live Environment then you can install without any problem.

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                Emperor No, the drivers are a completely different deal in Windows than Linux

                algent On EFI you don't install GRUB though

                      If you have 2 harddisk, I think it's better if you unplug the harddisk with Windows 10 before installing Solus.

                      algent [deleted] Well that happened before but let's try to solve it:

                      Basically I returned the empty space from HDD 1 to where it was before.
                      On the HDD 2 I created an empty space for the installation.
                      But when I opened GParted it couldn't recognize the partition or the HDD 2...

                          On the top right corner there is /dev/sda (1.82TiB) That is HDD1
                          If you click there is any /dev/sdb option? (HDD2)

                            algent This is HDD 2-the 2TB. The HDD 1 with W10 is 1TB...the HDD 1 is sdb.
                            And there is also the USB live boot.
                            P.S when I go into BIOS and change the 1-st bootalbe thing to be the USB the 1 TB HDD go to the bottom(3rd place) while 2TB HDD is 2nd place. Is changing the boot order going to help?

                              I am not sure, this is new to me.
                              Are you going to format it entirely? Find the option "Create a new partition table", and then create partitions as you want.

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                                You sure you've booted Solus in EFI mode?

                                  [deleted] algent Is there I way to upload a video here or somewhere else and add a link to it?
                                  P.S I think I found the way.

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                                      Try shutting the Windows down completely. Hold SHIFT key while powering off (not rebooting) and see if the partitions still look the same in Gparted.

                                        Emperor It is strange why GParted don't recognise that HDD. If you proceed in that situation you will lose your data there.

                                            Your video shows you are in a vbox. You have to shut down not reboot to switch from windows.

                                              CraigMatze algent Well I powered off the PC, un-plug it, then removed the sata and power cabels from HDD1(W10 disk) and then booted. The result was the same-exept this time there wasn't a W10 drive xD only 2TB unknown space 🙁
                                              I can pottentially copy all the files from that drive and move them to HDD1, but even if I do that I think I will lose some dependancies like Lightroom catalogs, previews etc.
                                              Isn't there something I can do?! The 2 HDD's are from the same brand-just one is 1TB and the other 2TB.

                                                  [deleted] When I had to do that on windows I had to remove all dynamic partitions from that drive to create a new normal one. So it is not that easy.