Software to boot from different M2 Drives? -No not BIOS

[Adrian86]

Hello!

So as the title suggests, I'm wondering if there is some form of software that will allow me to boot from 1 of 2 M2 drives at startup and separate them from each other.

Purpose:

I run my own design/marketing agency and Ive been consulting for a US based agency in the evenings. I use my Macbook for this, but its getting annoying and i work 10x quicker on windows. SO instead of building a micro atx pc (as i dont need major hardware to do the US job) I was wondering if there is a way i can achieve booting from 1 of my 2x M2 drives and separate them from each other?

The US firm installs a bunch of monitoring software etc and for security reasons etc want us to work from a separate solution.

Failing this, anyone got some good pointers or deals/costs on building a Micro ATX - 16gb Ram, maybe a small GPU for basic Ps/Ai stuff.

Ps. My Mrs works for the US agency and there was a great position available for me. So we are pushing for this to be our ticket outta here (Not that the US much better but hey!), We've already planted the seed and they very keen. My SA agency is doing just fine

Muchos Appreciated!

Edit: Spacewalker solved this in 1 second. Thank you!!

 

[SpaceWalker]

You aren't specifying much.

Are both drives running Windows?
One drive running Linux?

Either way: https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

 

[Adrian86]

Sorry! Should have given more context:

1 M2 is running win11. The other is just a normal drive at the moment. I'd set up the 2nd smaller one if this is possible.

Thanks gona check out that link now!

 

[Adrian86]

You aren't specifying much.

Are both drives running Windows?
One drive running Linux?

Either way: https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

Amazing! This is exactly what I'm after! Now I can have 1 pc with everything! Only 40usd is also a win.

Much appreciated!

 

[mradovan]

Another suggestion - for free

Every mobo should have a boot menu key, which when pressed lets you boot from any detected drive.

So, step 1 - find out what is that key.
Step 2 - take the existing boot drive out, and leave only "the other one" (safer that way - just in case)
Step 2 - install the OS on the other drive.
Step 3 - return the original boot drive.

Going forward, every time you boot, you just hit the said key and select the drive.

 

[Adrian86]

Yup! This is what I know to do, but I was looking for the above software where I didn't need to enter the bios each time.

1. I'm lazy
2. The software works quicker. Going to test it out asap

 

[matrixkid]

You can also use bootcamp to have windows and mac. You can then switch os at start up.

 

[Adrian86]

You can also use bootcamp to have windows and mac. You can then switch os at start up.

Yeah, im over Mac. I tried it to see if it would improve my workflow but nope.

So windows windows windows for me

 

[JollyJamma]

Clover boot loader might work?