A question for Win10 dualbooters

[jefboyardee]

Currently, I have Windows on my hard drive and Linux Mint on a USB flash. Normal booting goes straight to Windows with no BIOS popup, because I have grub saved on the USB drive.

To load Linux: with Win7 on the HD, on my HP, I hold ESC down until the boot menu pops up, choose the USB, then choose Linux on the grub popup. To reload Win7, all I have to is reboot and it goes straight there.

With Win10 on the HD, I can boot Linux as described. But when I reboot, the Win10 splash comes up but the loading twirly never appears, so Win10 never boots. The only way to get it back is to restore a backup I keep handy.

That alone is enough to keep me from switching to 10 permanently, unless one of you knows a trick. And by the way, it's a ten year old HP with BIOS and no UEFI.

 

[Father Guido]

Did you fully shutdown Win10 prior to booting into Mint? Just clicking "shutdown" doesn't really do so. As a thought, try to fully shutdown Win10 prior to booting into your Mint, and see if that makes any difference. To do so, click "Restart" (instead of shutdown) while holding the shift key. In short order, you will be presented with the option to truly turn off computer.

I made a shortcut on my desktop to make this happen without going through all of that: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

 

[jefboyardee]

I have no problem booting Linux, just booting Win10 after booting Linux.

I've been clicking Start>Restart for all these boots. But once I reinstall Win10, I will try power off instead of restart.

 

[Father Guido]

I have no problem booting Linux, just booting Win10 after booting Linux.

I've been clicking Start>Restart for all these boots. But once I reinstall Win10, I will try power off instead of restart.

That's kinda what I'm getting at. Win10 isn't totally un-mounting, but rather "hibernating." Worth a shot.

Good luck!

 

[palmtree5]

Yeah, I'd recommend turning off Fast Startup

 

[Xyro]

That's kinda what I'm getting at. Win10 isn't totally un-mounting, but rather "hibernating." Worth a shot.

Good luck!

I have read that fastbook applies to restarts, only shutdowns -> boots. Presumably the idea being that it leaves you (and windows update) some way to alter the system files that fastboot uses.