With this new ideology of installing an Android image(OS) along side the original Windows OS, things could never have been better. Here rather than just installing an emulator, you will have a fress and gorgeous looking Android OS running in your Computer along side your Windows OS, just like the case of installing two different Windows OS in your Computer in two different partitions.
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With this new ideology of installing an Android image(OS) alongside the original Windows OS, things could never have been better. Here rather than just installing an emulator, you will have a fresh and gorgeous looking Android OS running in your Computer alongside your Windows OS, just like the case of installing two different Windows OS in your Computer in two different partitions.
How does this dual boot works??
Dual-booting your PC as earlier mentioned is just like say; installing Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 on the same computer but in different partitions so much such that you have the possibility of choosing the operating system to use at boot. But in this case of dual booting, we are installing two different operating systems;- Windows OS and Android OS.
Why dual boot when we have Android emulators???
To my own opinion, just installing an Android emulator offers limited possibilities of experiencing many Apps and games as opposed to a fully installed OS, since not all apps and games can be run on an emulator.
How to get Android OS running in my Computer??
Two Android OS that you can dual boot on your Computer; - Remix OS and Phoenix OS.
The installation of Android OS on your computer is a little more difficult than just installing an emulator. In this case, you are installing another OS on your computer with Windows already installed. Here you will have to have Windows OS in one of your hard drives(primary) and then boot Android OS(Remix or Phoenix) on a different hard drive on your computer(you can equally boot in a removable hard drive). As such when starting your computer, you will have to select the system to use in the boot menu.
Remix OS.
System requirements:
- 2 GHz dual-core processor or better
- 2 GB system memory
- Minimum 8 GB of free hard drive space
- Internet access is helpful
Phoenix OS
Phoenix OS only requires an Intel or AMD x86 processor (Intel Atom recommended) and internal storage with at least 2GB of space. It is recommended ed using at least 16GB drives. To install Phoenix OS, you will need a USB drive with at least 8GB of storage.
Requirements:
- 2GB storage drive
- Intel or AMD processor made around 2012 or later, preferably an Intel Atom processor
- An 8GB or larger USB flash drive (for Phoenix OS)
- A 512MB or larger USB flash drive (for GParted)
- A separate computer to prepare the USB flash drives
How to install Remis/Phoenix OS
Install Remix OS to dual boot Windows OS and Android 6.0 (Marshmallow)
It is advisable to have a 3.0 USB flash drive with 8GB storage and FAT32 support. Also, the writing speed should be above 20MB/s.
- Enable Secure Boot if you haven’t already.
- Download Remix OS from the official site.
- Launch the Remix OS and start the installer.
- The app will let you install the Remix OS to the hard drive.
- Reboot your PC and it will install the OS.
- Now when you will turn on the PC, you will see two options; Windows 10 and Remix OS in the boot menu.
Installing Phoenix OS.
For the guide on how to install Phoenix OS to dual boot with your Windows OS, please visit Phoenix OS help page →
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