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    Quick select of hard drive, switching OS.

    I have a desktop with two hard drives and two Operating Systems...Win8.1, and Win10. The OS's are fully installed on both hard drives. Without having to physically unplug one drive, to allow the other OS to boot, how can I quickly switch from one OS and hard drive to the other? Switching the boot order in BIOS does not work...it always boots automatically to Win8.1. Thanks.

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    I use one of these for a multi-boot system:

    https://www.coolgear.com/wp-content/...ser-manual.pdf

    There are other similar switches available.

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    TechMan, so are you saying you want both drives/Operating Systems to boot and the ability to switch back and forth on OS (similar to window accounts)?

    I have done this in the past with two computers and a KVM switch. Or you can use Virtual software. I have also used pullout racks.

    But loading two Operating Systems at the same time, hmmmm.... interesting.... I was researching into something similar to your questions last week.

    https://frameboxxindore.com/other/yo...same-time.html
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