If you are dual-booting Windows 11 with Windows 10 or Windows 8/7, you might find entering Safe Mode a bit tricky with Shift+F8. You have to Run msconfig.exe, tick the Safe Boot option, and then restart to get the Safe boot along with your Dual boot options. But you don’t need to do this. The Safe Mode option is already present inside various other options. Let us see where it is!
Boot in Safe mode while dual-booting Windows 11/10 with Windows 8/7
When you start your Dual boot system with Windows 10 (or Windows 11) as default, dual booting with Windows 8/7 (or Windows 10), you get this choice screen. As you can see, all these boot options screens are graphical in Windows 10 – but the same procedure applies in the case of Windows 11 too.
Click on “Change defaults or choose other options’ to get other options screen.
Click on ‘Choose other options’ to get this screen.
Next click on ‘Troubleshoot’ to get this screen.
Now, click on ‘Advanced options’ to get this screen showing Windows Startup Settings with a ‘Restart’ button. Along with other options, you also have the ‘Enable Safe Mode’ as one of the option.-
Click on the ‘Restart’ button (as marked by the Red arrow in the above image) to restart and get various options including various modes of ‘Safe mode’.
Now you can choose – Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking or Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Using any of these Safe Mode options will boot the Windows 11/10 operating system in Safe mode.
So you can see, that although the Safe Mode option is hidden deep inside, it can be accessed easily in this manner, in dual-boot systems, without tweaking msconfig.exe.
How do I boot Windows 11 in Safe Mode?
To boot Windows 11 in Safe Mode, you need to open the Windows Settings panel first by pressing the Win+I key. Then, go to System > Recovery. Find the Advanced start option and click the Restart now button. Alternatively, you can utilize the System Configuration panel to boot your PC in Safe Mode. No matter whether you use Windows 11 or Windows 10, the process is the same.
Can we Dual Boot Windows 10 and Windows 11?
Yes, you can dual boot Windows 11 and Windows 10. No matter whether you want to have Windows 11 or Windows 10 first, you can go through both and set any one of them as the default OS. A detailed guide to dual boot Windows 11 and Windows 10 is already available, and it is recommended to follow that guide minutely.
You can also Enable F8 key & boot into Safe Mode in Windows.
