I was planning on installing windows to my new ssd for a dualboot, but I noticed that windows installer didn’t allow me to select the disk. I learned that it just installs to the drive that is marked as M2_1 in the bios. I thought that had something to do with boot order initially, but I’m not sure about that now. If it is boot order, my second ssd doesn’t even show up in the boot order menu So:
- Does windows install to whatever is second in boot order or whatever is marked as M2_1 in the bios, and
- How can I edit this to prevent windows from nuking my main linux partition and using the empty ssd, and after the install, how should I make sure both drives are available to boot into?
Motherboard is MSI MS - 7E10
Swap em around if they’re the same interface.
What do you mean by swap them around, and what do you mean by interface?
by swap them around i mean physically take the two drives out and put them in each others connectors. by interface i mean physical interface, like the plug or socket or slot they connect to the motherboard with.
the bios usually enumerates drives based on their position on the bus, so switching the connector they’re plugged into would fix the problem.
linux usually handles drives based on uuid, a unique identifier per device, so it wouldn’t mess up linux.
you didn’t specify if one was like a sata or esata or nvme and the other was different so i had to qualify “if theyre the same interface”.