Re: Is it possible to dual-boot both MBR & GPT without changing BIOS settings on laptop
Java Jive <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.os.linux,uk.comp.os.linux,alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 2025-11-11 03:45, Paul wrote: > > On Mon, 11/10/2025 7:27 PM, Java Jive wrote: >> >> Then reboot, and it all works. Except, I've discovered, OSs won't hibernate, all that happens is that the screen locks, the PC doesn't even sleep, let alone hibernate. >> It's annoying about the 32-Bit problem, though of course I can still boot it via MBR - I need to use that for one particular old scanner for which I cannot get 64-bit drivers; it's useful to keep it going because it's quite suited to old gritty material which might scratch the glass of the new one, and also it's the only one I have with an Automatic Document Feeder. >> >> Perhaps next I might try seeing if I can boot W11P from the original MBR menu, which would achieve the desired state of only needing one boot menu. Had a go at that meantime, couldn't get it to work. >> But for the others I had to wing it, using little clues from various researches online, >> none of which gave a complete template or revealed a crucial extra step to get >> Windows 7 & 10 to boot, which is that you need to load the module 'ntfscomp' > > "ntfscomp - GRUB is able to support the compression commonly used in NTFS with this module" Ah! So 'comp' is 'compression', not 'compatibility'. > That could be Old Compression (an ATTRIB applied to a file), versus New Compression > (a custom Reparse Point invented by Microsoft to annoy Linux users). Some folders are compressed in my setups - Recycle Bins, foreign language subdirs ar-SA to zh-TW, etc. > Regarding scanners, there is the commercial scanner driver package for old scanners. > That could allow you to access the old scanner from a 64-bit OS, for a price. > (hamrick.com VueScan). The main concern for old scanner users, is whether all > the capabilities of the scanner are available, when a novel driver is used. Yes, I've heard that mentioned before. Tx. -- Fake news kills! I may be contacted via the contact address given on my website: www.macfh.co.uk