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Software Support => GroovyMAME => Topic started by: kendjet on February 28, 2022, 05:18:18 am

Title: dual-booting Groovyarcade and Windows 10; any caveats?
Post by: kendjet on February 28, 2022, 05:18:18 am

Hi all,


I'm planning on buying a 2nd SSD drive to install Groovyarcade, as I read that it needs its own drive (since it destroys the existing partitions).
Is anyone running a dual-boot with Windows 10? So right now I already have Windows 10 running, but I'm not sure if Groovyarcade will adjust the bootloader properly.
I should be using the BIOS in Legacy mode right? Are there any other things I should be aware of?

Thanks!

Title: Re: dual-booting Groovyarcade and Windows 10; any caveats?
Post by: Calamity on February 28, 2022, 05:24:47 am

I have Win 8.1 (sic) + GA, on 2 different SSD drives, no problems.

Just be careful during installation to point to the correct drive, you know what I mean.

Use UEFI installation if your BIOS supports it, it works great. You won't see a boot menu after installation (grub, etc.) if that's what you expect. You'll have to manually press F8 or whatever key your BIOS uses to bring its built in boot drive menu, and pick the one you want. If nothing is pressed, it'll boot from the default drive (by BIOS selection).

Title: Re: dual-booting Groovyarcade and Windows 10; any caveats?
Post by: kendjet on March 03, 2022, 03:05:40 am

Thank you Calamity!

Once GA is installed to the new SSD I bought, can I just leave the VGA cable connected to my Radeon HD4650 and the HDMI cable to the other graphics card permanently? Won't that cause any issues when I start Windows or GA?

Thanks ;-)