hi! okay so ive been running linux mint for a few months now (with issues) (many issues) (solved mostly by asking my friend for help and then she finds a solution for me and i go okay yay) so ive moved to endeavor! (which so far has been doing a lot less breaking down on me) (yay!) (also its really pretty) which is awesome and like no issues there. For Now
BUT i bought an SSD (to plug in) (its external) so i can hopefully put windows10 in there and dual boot them. however!!! i dont know what im doing. do i install windows the same way i installed linux? will it just. be there in my grub menu and go Hey You Wanna Windows Or Linux? is it going to save everything i put in there? would it be dangerous to unplug the SSD when im not using windows? is there any differences in setting it up? do i even need a partition if its on another disk? do i just like, put it in the disk and run the disk when i need it? how does That work? ?
which is all to say i dont know what im doing and everywhere i look i see head-spinning jargon because i am not technically inclined in the slightest. any kind of explanation to anything ever would mean the world to me and i would frolick with you endlessly. in an awesome meadow. please save me
If memory serves me correct and they haven’t changed I don’t think Windows will install on an External Device. Linux will with no issue. I think Windows requires itself to be installed internally. However this could have changed you will want to verify.
If you want to put windows on this, this will be hard. It probably can be done with Rufus, as long nothing has changed, but I am not shure.
If correctly configured, yes.
Yes.
I don’t thing so, no (unless something has changed in the last 2 years I did it)
Should be answered here, read, and scroll to the part of your setup. Also I think there are videos on YouTube, which might be easier for you.
Also, note: Windows REQUIRES secure boot. Secure boot does not like endeavouros. So… This is tricky. You would always have to disable it in the bios when you want to run endeavour, and enable it when you run windows.
There are ways to run endeavouros with secure boot though… If you want to go this way
Note, in my opinion you probably should just try a VM with windows if you need it… Or if it’s just for certain programs, maybe try something like winboat. I think it would be easier for you, then trying to force windows on an external disk, and add it to grub + the secure boot thing… But this is just my opinion
ok yay!! thank you that helps a lot do you think i should instead put windows in my laptop and run endeavor in the external drive? only thing is i wont use windows nearly as often
No. I don’t think you should run windows at all.
Honestly if I had to run that OS for some reason I would give it its own computer. I would not want M$ to have any access to any of my information what so ever. I never recommend dual booting with Winblowz.
Ah. That’s a bummer. In that case, I agree with @thefrog, give it it’s own machine and don’t dual boot at all. If that’s not an option, back in the day when I used to dual boot, you always had to install Windows first.
Though, should it not, there technically is still another way, one that I used when starting out with Linux.
I just cloned the windows drive I had and put it on the external drive. Though this requires that both drives are the same size (or that the external one is bigger). Also after that, booting on the external drive with windows, windows bluescreened at the start and required a repair (guess it didn’t expect to be somewhere else) but after that it was fine. But that was with windows 10 should work with 11 but you never know..
I don’t use my windows install anymore, but if you really need it one or the other method should work.
Also should you struggle with adding windows to grub, you still can use the boot menu from the bios, and just choose the drive to boot from.
So first disable/enable secure boot, then boot from drive.
The rest I wrote above is just making life easier, and once you gained some experience, as adding entry to grub, and adding eos to secure boot is a bit difficult (I myself didn’t do it, as I didn’t have a need for it)
know what im doing and everywhere i look i see head-spinning jargon because i am not technically inclined in the slightest. any kind of explanation to anything ever would mean the world to me and i would frolick with you endlessly. in an awesome meadow. please save me