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Ultrabook Envy6-1100sl
Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi, i upgraded my envy6 with 16GB Crucial RAM and 500GB samsung evo SSD. After upgrade i made a clean installation of windows 10 and stopped to use the itegrated ssd on msata. My question is:
Can i install a second OS on the msata ssd? Can this bios read the second OS on the msata?? Are there any procedure to follow ??
Thanks

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Thanks for the suggest, but I founded a simple way.. I just installed the second os on the msata. At the boot the sistem start automatically on my primary drive (500gb win10) but if i push F9 while booting i can see my linux on second drive (32gb msata) and just select it for boot when i need.
Don't need any grub or similar just manual choice, and it is what I wanted!!!

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Hi,

 

Should be another way around I think. You can make mSATA SSD as disk 0 and normal SSD as disk 1. Install the second OS to mSATA SSD your machine would boot from the second OS first. I would install a larger (capacity) to the mSASA slot and use it as primary disk.

 

The following article tells you how to make mSASA SSD as boot disk

 

          http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/install-msata-ssd-tutorial

 

Regards.

BH
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HP Recommended
Thanks for the suggest, but I founded a simple way.. I just installed the second os on the msata. At the boot the sistem start automatically on my primary drive (500gb win10) but if i push F9 while booting i can see my linux on second drive (32gb msata) and just select it for boot when i need.
Don't need any grub or similar just manual choice, and it is what I wanted!!!
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