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Will installing Windows to an external USB HDD screw with my main drive? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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I have a USB HDD that I'm hoping to install Windows on for a few games and other pieces of software. I know my load times will be miserable, but how poorly will things run once on ram? Lastly, Windows does like to screw with other operating systems on the same drive, will it play nice with my main drive as long as it's on the HDD?

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[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not worth it if you have a single GPU (at that point just dual boot like you're planning to now), but if you have a second GPU then it's a very powerful option.

You can always bite the bullet and have Windows and Linux be neighbors on the same drive though only Linux is chad enough to read from both OS's partitions. If your concern is with performance then I don't think Windows would be good at all on an external HDD.

[–] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Also I've heard that Windows likes monopolizing your boot partition

Yep, seen this happen a couple of times with friends. Their boot loaders just randomly get nuked from their EFI partition after a Windows update,

It's not worth it if you have a single GPU

You can pass through a single GPU, it's just kind of a pain to get working so I wouldn't really recommend you bother with it unless you really want to go this route. Another option is to pick up some ancient very cheap graphics card up off Ebay or something to use for the host machine then pass through your more powerful GPU to the guest machine.

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[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is a laptop so could I use the igpu for the host that already runs the UI and pass the GPU through to the VM?

[–] Gorb@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Looking it up supposedly theoretically possible but I think the CPU has to support it https://www.reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/xpjihb/guide_gpu_passthrough_for_laptops_in_fedora/

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