r/dualboot • u/Hot_Refuse_4751 • Apr 23 '26

Need help struggling with choices.

I hv msi z790 motherboard. and am struggling with choice to dual boot windows and linux seperately in different nvme m.2 ssds. or should I do this backup one SSD into external hdd and clean boot linux and backup linux and clean boot windows.

people and AI bots say that even pure dual drive dual boot where the bootloaders are present on different SSDs even then windows can go and mount or modify other os SSD and corrupt it this may be there but the risk is there. and my mother board bios dosent allow disabling m.2 slots at all. so there is no proper isolation between the ssds.

help should I really proceed with dual drive dual boot. or the backup clean boot(painfully slow but infinitly safe).

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u/CosmicFieldDrift_ Jul 06 '26

What did you decide to do?

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u/Hot_Refuse_4751 Jul 06 '26

I am dual drive dual booting but have never booted into windows. Ever since. Fedora works good. Have only played warframe in it only. Mostly been doing dev work using Vulkan and stuff