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Dual-Boot in Dual-Disk Laptop

Hello everyone, i need some advice on how i should manage a dual boot (Debain13-Windows11) on a laptop with two disks.

The machine currently has Windows11 installed on a 250Gb SSD, and a 500Gb HDD that is used for data only. Since i’m going to use linux much more than windows from now on, i was thinking of partitioning the SSD to run both windows and debian, while keeping the HDD for debian’s /home only. In particular, i was thinking of allocating 200Gb for windows, and 50Gb for everything debian needs, except /home. The easy alternative would be to simply put windows on the SSD, while debian on the HDD, but i’m afraid this would make the linux experience a pain because, you know, it would be running on a HDD.

What would you do? Any suggestion is welcome. I’ve even been thinking of half-splitting both drives and give each OS a portion of it, but i don’t even know whether that makes any sense or not.

Thank you in advance.

Posted Oct 2, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

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