![]() ![]() Once you have partitions set up, the installation scripts for most popular distributions should detect where things are and set up grub automatically: in the Ubuntu installer, you will need to identify the various partitions you're going to use. You absolutely need to have the windows drive back in before installing linux!!! Do you have to set up grub manually? The Windows install has some limitations as to where it can boot from, so I would not try to move it or re-prioritize the disks. Should you remove the Windows drive during installation? ![]() The Ubuntu site should have recommendations for minimum sizes for each of these partitions. Sdb - Drive 2 with linux and shared drive (Set this one up) sda1: Manufacturer's Recovery Partition.Here's what it might look like when you're done: ![]() You can remove your Windows drive for this step and only partition the empty drive. To do this you'll use something like gparted to manually create your partitions. You should also add a swap partition while you're at it. This also adds the advantage that you'll be able to install a new linux version without losing documents. However I recommend that if you're doing this to add a separate windows readable partition on the empty drive to share documents between the two installs. You just need to make sure the Linux installation script is pointed to the correct drive. If you have two separate drives, then you already have the partitions you'll need. As far as grub is concerned these basically resolve into paths to a location, regardless of whether they are on different partitions on one drive or many. Yes, you can have linux installed on one disk and Windows on another. You might need to do some research on your model to see if you need to change any settings in the UEFI menu (the setup menu when you first boot up the computer). This will also take some work to do the first time to back up everything, learn about and set up partitions, and then optionally reconfigure os and programs to save things on a shared document partition.ĭepending on the brand of machine, there may also be headaches dealing with how they've set up UEFI to 'protect' the windows install. Otherwise you'll be rebooting every time. If you're going to switch between linux and windows often, or will want to access some windows applications while on working linux, you should stick to a virtual machine. It does require some setup though, as you've probably realised, especially if you want to share files between the two. Edit: Or perhaps you're working in Linux and gaming in Windows. The most common scenario for dual booting is when you'll be booting into linux full time and will only need Windows once in a while, but have an OEM windows install that cannot easily be put into a virtual machine on Linux. I know you can find this info on any web, but I’m really nervous for something not to work out, so I want a person to confirm it exactly for me.įirst off, I think some of the comments make a good point: If the virtual machines are working for you, then you're not missing much by sticking to that. I’m also a bit scared to lose windows and all its files during linux installation, so shall I remove first the disk where windows is stored and install linux on the new and empty one, then put the windows hard disk in back? Or that would break something? I can go through the installation without any problem, I just wanna know what do I need to do, to get that menu where I can choose windows or linux, GRUB I think its called. That’s not my case, I have 2 m.2 ssd, and in one, I have windows, but In the other one I want to install linux. Starting, every tutorial that I found told about some disk partition, I assume its to separate a disk in 2 parts: 1 for windows and 1 for linux. And I’m asking for help in here, to remove my insecurities about it. I researched on it but I’m still a bit panicky about it. That’s when I found out about dual booting. I want to change to linux but still have windows in my system, becase I have a lot of things on it and I payed a lot for it. Now even though I’m not an expert on it I can perfectly work on linux and do my things on linux. So I installed a virtual machine, to get used to linux. But after I heard so many people talk about linux and the tools that can be used in there, I decided to also try it. I’ve always have been a windows user, I did everything on windows: gaming, working, programming etc. First I wanna say that I’m new to both linux and dual booting so mistakes can be made while I’m trying to explain this. ![]()
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