# Device ID questions
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/device-id-questions/22005
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 24, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/device-id-questions/22005 "2024-04-24T17:24:27Z")
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### Author:  [@birv2](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/birv2)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/device-id-questions/22005/1 "2024-04-24T17:24:27Z")
Hello all. New to ST and trying to get it working. How do I set it up if I’m working on a dual boot machine? I’m going from Linux Mint to Windows 10, so setting it up from the Linux side.
Wouldn’t both “machines” have the same device ID? Then what?
Also, I was trying to set up my iPhone and cannot seem to find a 52 or 54 character device ID.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/device-id-questions/22005/2 "2024-04-24T18:02:24Z")
Here are a few starting points
[https://forum.syncthing.net/search?q=dual%20boot](https://forum.syncthing.net/search?q=dual%20boot)
> [@Syncthing on dual boot system](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-on-dual-boot-system/18484):
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> I’m using Syncthing since some years to synchronize folders between several linux machines without any problems. Thanks for your great work! Now I want to install Syncthing on a dual boot machine (Win10 + Linux) to synchronize a folder f between the dual boot PC and some other PCs. An instance of folder f will exist on the windows partition and one instance of folder f will exist on the linux partition (It will not be one shared folder accessed from both operating systems). After reading the de…
> [@Dual boot NTFS](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/dual-boot-ntfs/16683):
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> Hello, everybody. First of all, I want to be clear saying that I have already searched for this and tryed the solutions, but didn’t worked for me (I’m not a very advanced computer user, so, maybe I did it wrong). There’s this thing I want to do: I have two computers, both of them with Gnu/Linux and Windows 10 dual boot. In both of them I have a shared NTFS partition, so I can access it with any OS at any time and have all of my documents. But I want to enable Syncthing for both NTFS partitions…
> [@Dual boot and sync same files](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/dual-boot-and-sync-same-files/5658):
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> I have a laptop which can boot Windows 10 or Ubuntu 15.04. I have syncthing installed under Windows but not under Ubuntu. I also have a Raspberry Pi running syncthing using the debian package, so I shouldn’t find it too hard to install syncthing under Ubuntu. The folders I am syncing under Windows are on a separate data partition (NTFS). I’m thinking of installing syncthing under Ubuntu to sync the same folders on the data partition. I’m not planning sharing any of the configuration or any …
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/device-id-questions/22005/3 "2024-05-24T18:02:27Z")
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