Thanks for an excellent tutorial. It got my up and dual booting in next to no time. I just got confused at one point because I'd already created a partition for Linux via Windows disk manager. I also had a second drive, with several partitions, in my computer. As a result, the instraller didn't give me options about where to install Linux, except unsder "other," which confused the heck out of me.. So, I turned off the computer, temporarily disconnected my second drive then used Windows to expand the primary partition to fill the whole remaining drive. I then re-ran the Linux installer and everything went just as you show in your video. Thanks again!
Same here. Creating a partition for Linux is better to avoid bugs since this "side to side" installation could generate GRUB errors occasionally. But I still struggling with the partition 😬😐
Awesome! This is what I call a clear and crisp, up to the point instruction video. No ambiguities whatever. Loved it so much. Many thanks for making it dear friend. Much love. Good luck and cheers! 😊👍
Great clear explanation! I have been using Mint on one of my laptops but am purchasing another and i may do the dual boot giving Windows a small % of space! I find Mint does everything i need and is not sluggish like Windows.
Best video for dual boot installation of windows and mint. I wish I had checked this video first. I used another guide to install and ended up with strange partitions and a boot drive that was way too small. Don't bother with any of that noise on your first linux install, it serves no purpose. This is the way to go and thank-you for making this video. All things considered I could have done this entirely on my own as it is so simple but it was nice to have someone confirm it before taking the plunge.
hi there i have a dell studio 1555 on win 10. do i need to update or change any bios settings to install this. updater says latest bios already installed
Thanks a lot bro I managed to install both windows and linux mint 20 on my portable external hard drive. Now I'm able to dual boot both of my laptop's from my external hard drive after watching your video...
Thank you. Succinct and wonderfully described. I am encouraged to give it a try as abandoned Windows some years ago but have limited need for Windows OS now.
linux mint or any other distro should be installed in a separate ssd along with the boot loader. That way it will be completely independent. Though you will need to either use bios boot device menu, or change the boot device priority to be able to boot in linux mint.
Was having some trouble, saw this video then I realized I downloaded a separate fork, probably university made. Felt stupid, but you made it right lol. Got it installed on my laptop alongside windows and I've been enjoying the lightweight aspect of mint. I know it's not the lightest option but it's way less resource hungry than windows, it really stretches battery life. Very user friendly and would recommend anyone to try mint as a windows alternative to slowly introduce yourself to Linux.
I'm going to try it now. I installed Linux a few years back and I wasn't ready for it. This seems like a great way to become comfortable with Linux while having a bit of a safety net with Windows.
@Hans Hiden In the end I succeeded. I don't fault the video at all. I had to look up how to enter boot mode on my Huawei, I also had to watch another video because my laptop did not create a new partition. Once I learned how to create space on my hard drive, when to insert my USB and the trick of reachicng the boot screen - success. A little extra effort was worth it. Good luck
Holy shit dude thank you I don't normally put comments on videos but yours really deserves it! It really helped me out a whole lot! I was not able to figure this out until I watched your video so thank you so much!
Excellent video, you speak clearly and the content is spot on, I appreciate that you fast forward the downloads and installations, Very well done, Thank You. Now wish me luck :-)
Is there a way to set this dual boot up so that each system can share files? If so could you make a video about it? I've seen it demonstrated using Vertual Box but I haven't seen it done with dual boot.
Linux can see and access the files on the windows partition, whereas Windows won't even realise the Linux partition is there and can't read the Linux Ext4 file system. Thus you can share files if you keep them on the windows partition. A much better alternative is to install linux, and then run windows as a virtual machine inside linux. It may seem intimidating but some good vids here (look up installing Windows 10 on virtualbox). With this method you can actually RUN Linux and windows simultaneously. Also you can easily create shared folders which work bidirectional ly
I'm running Win 10 and Mint 19.3. I always freak out when I upgrade. Tell me, please, how to over-write 19.3 with 20.1. Do I delete the Linux partitions, to make 1 partition to install 20? Thanks! Very good, clear tutorial, except for this one question.
Yes, as i know there is direct over-write function. I think it will keep the files of your previous version, but i'm absolutely not sure about this. But maybe you already done this because your comment is from 8 month, but who knows
I installed Windows10 Home from a 120gb SSD onto a 240gb ssd. This left 120gb unallocated on the 240gb SSD. I then installed LinuxMint 20.3 Cinnamon to the unallocated section. During the installation LinuxMint automatically installed the dual boot. It will automatically boot LinuxMint. If I want Windows 10 Home I just do the switch. Everything works like a charm. I transfer files between both operating systems by using a fat32 flash drive.
...some tutorial was mention to disable "secure boot from UEFI" (BIOS ? Windows ?), this secure prevent some windows cracks in Windows 8.1, Windows 10. Also mess Linux install.
This was great up to the installation type page. My mint 20 install only gave 2 choices--erase disk and install linux mint and Something Else...nothing about dual boot.
If you have windows installed only on one partition, then go to diskmgmt and create another partition. Also before installation, select the non-uefi version of the usb drive in the boot menu.
@@MdHaroonAhmedKhan I think you may have just answered my question! So I shrink the existing partition to make room for linux. Do I have to make another partition in that free space or will linux install in the free space without making another partition?
Many thanks! One question. I have my Windows installed on the HDD and want to install linux mint on SDD. Will the process be the same as shown in the video?
Thank you Jay! However, I'm concerned with the "Something Else" option, because I'd like to know if the partition is a Primary or a Logical! Anyhow, your explanation is excellent, but would like you to make one with the Something Else" option please?
@@budexlexxy9319 It will only brick your machine if you don't understand how partitions work. That options requires a bit of technical knowledge, which is quite risky.
Did this for a dual boot of Win7 and Mint 19.2, but messed with the partions and messed up Windows, so I had to wipe and install Mint. Don't really regret it, but there were a couple windows programs I wished I still had access to. Just watched your Mint 20 update for doing mine later this week.
Thx for the video. Does this dual boot method slow down the processor - or would my windows sessions run almost as quickly after installing Linux mint as dual boot?
Hi. Thanks for this video. I have no doubt it will work, but I yet have some questions before I dig in. 1). Where is the OS options menu stored? Maybe HDD or BIOS/UEFI? 2). What if I change my mind about Linux Mint? Can I remove just it and go full back to Windows? 3). What if I want to remove Windows and keep Linux? How? 4). What if I need to reinstall Linux after I butcher trying to learn? I am not asking for easy answer, because while I am very new to Linux (only USB Boot once), I have installed Windows 10 many times on many different systems. So Pulling the HDD, Format, reinstall, rebuild Windows is no biggie to me. Just like to know up front. Thanks for taking question. Thanks for sharing. Good day.
thank you for an excellent overview of how to install linux mint. i just purchased a usb with it on it. my intention is to see if i can revive both my old laptops. if that goes well, i want to dual boot with windows on my desktop to test out and then if i like that, get rid of windows 10 WHICH I HATE1 It is always so slow, seems like it is endlessly updating and probably stealing my data. in my early computer career in the early 80s i worked on unix and so i realized that this could be an elegant answer to dump windows once and for all1 thank you so much1
What's missing is how to UNinstall Linux and restore the system to the pre-Linux condition if you decide you don't want to run Linux. I suppose one option would be to just nuke the internal drive by reformatting it, then using the backup made before installing Linux (we DID make the backup, right?), but is there an easier/faster way?
My computer has two hard disks one with Windows10 installed and the other pre-installed with Linux mint, I use the "F8" key for the boot menu every time if I need to switch to Linux otherwise it will boot to wind10 but I want Linux or Windows 10 to be my primary syatem, I don't want to use the P8 key every time.
Hey, Thank you for this, sure looks doable. One thing that I felt like I didn't understand - can you access all the files from both Linux and Windows? If not, would that be possible in any other way?
You can access your Windows files from Linux Mint, but you can't access your Linux files from Windows 10. I save downloads to my windows downloads, video and picture files all the time. But it can't be done the other way.
@@terryh9721 It can. You will need a separate partition formatted as FAT32. Both operating systems can access FAT32. I have a 500G drive that stores all my files that I need to share between both, like documents, music, videos and pictures
Just wanted to let folks know that I got NoMachine working on my MacBook Air and remoting into Mint machine just fine! It was suggested by someone on the chat service that’s installed by default in Mint. I’ve been playing with mint for about 6 months on and off.. I just recently swapped in a different spinner drive and installed Ubuntu to get familiar with it, but I like Mint better!
Windows user trying something new here. Just installed to A SD card to try. Thank you. Quick question when I download packages and applications does it install them also on the SD card?
Hey man, I recently found myself in a predicament. So, I finished installing Linux like you said but when I want to load linux it goes straight directly to windows! I didn't even show the grub
It is because your default os boot manager is set to "windows boot manager" in bios settings 1) go to bios settings> system configuration> boot options > go to uefi boot order ( if installed through uefi) then by default it will be "OS Boot manager" just press " ENTER" on OS Boot manager , then you will see 2 options i.e windows boot manager and Ubuntu, " just press "F5" or" F6" and bring Ubuntu on First and windows below it then press F10 to " save" and exit from bios then after boot you will see grub menu as shown in video. It worked for me hope will work on your pc too :)
@@saberkouki5760 If you installed Windows after LM it will wipe out grub. Reinstall grub from a Live Mint CD and it will detect both. Windows won't detect Linux if you do that second. If you install Linux second over Windows it will set up the dual boot menu in the bootloader.
Trying to accomplish this as we speak. I have a a Lenovo P300 desktop. It has 2x 2 TB (Total 4 TB) hard drives. I want to be able to run Google Pro and 1 or 2 games that are Windows reliant so I will need to keep Windows 10. At this time, one of the two hard drives is completely empty. I never used it. Am I looking at the same procedures you used in this video ? OR ? Thanks for the video and any information for my situation.
That was excellent. Professionally done. I look forward to doing it. You have assumed that we all know how to make an image of Windows. I looked that up and will find a spare drive to hold the backup. I have a spare drive within my desktop computer set aside for Linux OS, so I should be able to install it on to that drive. Can the GRUB menu be edited? I would like to put Windows at the top and Linux as no 2. I will be using Linux just to play around with.
Thank you very much for your guide. Is there a way to take a backup image of the ssd with the 2 operating systems for later restoring? is there a freeware software to do it?
I'm a Linux Power User for many years now and I'm having a hard time installing dual boot (W10 | LM21) in an external USB (NVMe). I have UEFI and Legacy's Grub2. The laptop I'm using as host for the first install recognizes the paths, but other computers don't. I can't find anywhere on the web a solution for this. Do you accept the challenge? I can also support for beta testing and providing more specific details. Thanks a lot for your videos! Cheers!
Sir i haven't show the 1st option " install linux mint alongside windows10" in installation type... Only shown other options.... Please fix my problem...
Jay thank you for a very well tutorial on this. I have 4 questions for you: #1: I have two drives in my windows 11 system. I would like to keep the entire C drive for windows and then put Linux Mint on the D drive. It can have all of it. #2: Can I or would you recommend running a webserver from this system? #3: I don't know if they are part of your group but the person's name is Don Pezet. He had a video on "How To Secure A Raspberry Pi". Can I also do what he does? #4: Can I put Webmin on this system as well? Thanks Dan
very good ,BUT what about a duel drive system? with linux on one and windows on the second. I am in the process of building a new computer, it will have 2 m.2 drives, one will be dedicated for my main daily needs(linux) and the other (windows) for the games I have that will not easily run under linux. NO preexisting OS on anything. again a very good video.
Hi what if I want to install mint linux on a separate drive?is it possible? I already installed win10 on one ssd 240g.i have a 128g ssd for linux..but not showing 128 GB disk when I try to install linux...can you help?
So with mint 20 you don't have to free up space beforehand since mint 20 will do that for you? Same with Cinnamon or Mate versions? No problems with UEFI? I'm getting a refurb Dell and I want to make it a dual boot. I've had problems doing that with my Dell laptop. It would run the live usb but failed to install, it just wouldn't let me!
is it possible to install, e.g., five different Linux distros to compare/try them out - with any sharing of resources/drive space, or would each distro require quite a bit of disk space/resources, thereby limiting the practicality to only 2 or 3?
I have installed Linux Mint and I would like to have a dual boot with Windows 10. So how do I do the opposite of what you shown? Thank you and awesome video!
Great tutorial 🔥🔥tho I'd recommend Ventoy to make Bootable flash drives, since it's as easy as copy pasting the iso file into the flash drive 👌🏾.You can have multiple isos on the same flash drive which I think is really cool 🔥🔥🔥oh and it's open source too🔥
Excellent video. The Linux Mint install is perfect. Trying to download a Microsoft Windows that is not corrupted by the time you start Etcher is seemingly impossible! Do they (Microsoft) prefer that we purchase Windows 10 from Amazon or some other vendor?
Can you make a video how to install windows 10, if you already have Linux Mint installed on your drive and then dual boot them? It is possible? Thank you
Are you saying that your installation didn't go like the one in this video? Were you able to go into Windows Disk Management (or whatever it's called) and set the partitions or did you have to use a third party partition manager? And ultimately, did you get the installation done so that you could boot to either Windows or Linux Mint?
So the installer resizes existing partitions itself to match whatever is written? Can I not delete a windows partition of appropriate size, like E:\ where I keep odds and ends, and then install Mint there? How would the screen look then? Assuming I deleted a 100GB partition, and set the Linux space to 90GB just to be sure, would the Windows partitions remain untouched and unresized and the installation will go in the unallocated space? Yes, backup first :D...
would this be the same process if I want to install linux on one hard drive and keep windows on my other hard drive and choose which one boots up upon power up of my desktop
Thanks for the awesome video. I am not seeing an option to do a dual boot when asking to install Linux, as it is in your video - only "erase everything". Could there be something wrong with my original windows partition systems etc? Says it hasn’t detected Windows as the existing OS. thank you.
Etcher is my favourite, its the best, plus it works on linux. Plus rufus is just so ugly, and a bit complicated and only on windows, but etcher is very straightforward
Question : the dual partition will not corrupt windows 10 right . In the past i installed Linux on a same hard drive and I let the linux create the dual boot. Problems would happen when i would do a windows update then the master boot record get corrupted and then I cant boot into windows at all. I once found a video where i followed the indian person youtube which i cant findanymore. i er i installed win 10 and linux on separate partions so far no problems and when either operating system updates there is no issue GRUB works wonderful. ANY thoughts?
amazing tutorial sir, I respect, but sir at 9:06 I forgot to select the drive option C and installed in wrong drive D so, It does not prompt me to choose OS it directly starting Windows 10.....Plz help me to fix it sir,
I'm thinking of moving to linux I have a question about this live boot thing If I keep it on the USB drive can I keep using it as is? Is there any limitations? I mean is it like when you want to try a game and get the demo version so you can try it but it's not actually the full game Is this the case here? Thank you again for the wonderful explaining in the video
Most of the time, you have to format your USB drive to use it like normal, because when you create a bootable USB, it creates some partitions, and this won't allow you to use it as normal, so you have to format it. And no, with a live session, you don't have any limitations (or maybe just the size of your USB drive obviously), you can even install new programs to it and will work, and when you are done, testing it only or installing, you just reboot and everything gets reset, so anything you install or save during the live session gets erased, so make sure to save the things that you want to keep in another location. And if you boot again into the USB, you get a new, clean live session, hope this answers your questions ;) welcome to the Linux world!
@@robertobautista2171 thank you But if I may ask another question I actually have 2 usb drive one of them is 64gb and the other is 16 So can I flash the OS image on the 16 gb then run the installation and choose the 64gb drive as my install destination Will this be a normal installation and my (word files - new programs etc) will stay no matter if I reboot or not? Is it possible?
@@feras5017 I'm not quite sure if that would work, honestly I never tried to do that, neither searched it, but I wouldn't recommend it anyway, the experience in a USB drive, will never be the same as in a hard drive or SSD, and it can even mess with your system, because it will create a boot entry in your BIOS (or UEFI), and your system won't boot up unless you have the USB plugged in (and even like that, it might not boot) or you change your boot order in the settings of your BIOS (or UEFI), and if you have another OS like WIndows, it might break it too. So... my suggestion here is that, if you wanna try linux, you could try it in a Virtual Machine (with programs like VirtualBox), install it on another laptop or pc, that you don't use or something, if you have another one of course, or directly installing on your device along with your existing OS. Hope this info helps! :)
Just what I would love to see, you post it! Why didn't I discover this channel earlier. Best host i've seen so far, not exaggerating
@bruNO well said.
Wow! This is amazing, I just followed the steps and it was as easy as you explained. Thank you, sir.
Many thanks, bro.
I was facing serious problems to keep both and your step-by-step helped me a lot.
Thanks for an excellent tutorial. It got my up and dual booting in next to no time.
I just got confused at one point because I'd already created a partition for Linux via Windows disk manager. I also had a second drive, with several partitions, in my computer. As a result, the instraller didn't give me options about where to install Linux, except unsder "other," which confused the heck out of me..
So, I turned off the computer, temporarily disconnected my second drive then used Windows to expand the primary partition to fill the whole remaining drive. I then re-ran the Linux installer and everything went just as you show in your video.
Thanks again!
Same here. Creating a partition for Linux is better to avoid bugs since this "side to side" installation could generate GRUB errors occasionally. But I still struggling with the partition 😬😐
Awesome! This is what I call a clear and crisp, up to the point instruction video. No ambiguities whatever. Loved it so much. Many thanks for making it dear friend. Much love. Good luck and cheers! 😊👍
Did Linux mint booted with this cause other videos are saying to shrink and all please tell me I'm new here, should I follow this guide?
@@kartikkhandelwal1367 if you have an external hard disk u can choose ur hard disk but in windows 10 u wont see ur hard disk
Great clear explanation! I have been using Mint on one of my laptops but am purchasing another and i may do the dual boot giving Windows a small % of space! I find Mint does everything i need and is not sluggish like Windows.
Best video for dual boot installation of windows and mint. I wish I had checked this video first. I used another guide to install and ended up with strange partitions and a boot drive that was way too small. Don't bother with any of that noise on your first linux install, it serves no purpose. This is the way to go and thank-you for making this video. All things considered I could have done this entirely on my own as it is so simple but it was nice to have someone confirm it before taking the plunge.
Great! It's years since I dual booted Windows with Linux. This was a great refresher for me, many thanks 👍👍👍☮☮☮
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Straight to the point. Thank you so much for making this video!!
Very good and simple... will do it on a 240gb ssd. Thanks for keeping it simple!
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Thank you for skipping to the useful lart
Thanks.
I did this on Windows 11 right now, still works!
Thanks for this tutorial, I subscribed(:
I had to learn to update my old Dell's bios and then this worked perfectly, my first dip into the Linux pool, thanks!
hi there i have a dell studio 1555 on win 10. do i need to update or change any bios settings to install this. updater says latest bios already installed
Exceptional explanation for any level of intuition, thank you very much for this good contribution!
Hola pudiste instalar win7 en uefi gpt??
Thanks a lot bro I managed to install both windows and linux mint 20 on my portable external hard drive. Now I'm able to dual boot both of my laptop's from my external hard drive after watching your video...
Thank you. Succinct and wonderfully described. I am encouraged to give it a try as abandoned Windows some years ago but have limited need for Windows OS now.
linux mint or any other distro should be installed in a separate ssd along with the boot loader. That way it will be completely independent. Though you will need to either use bios boot device menu, or change the boot device priority to be able to boot in linux mint.
I agree with that, but then you need two SSD drives in your laptop. In most consumer laptops you can install only one drive.
Best video I've found on LM/Win10 dual-boot! Thanks for making it.
Nicely Explained process Automatically picked the hard disk unformatted part 50GB I had left on SSD. for Linux mint after installing windows.
Was having some trouble, saw this video then I realized I downloaded a separate fork, probably university made. Felt stupid, but you made it right lol. Got it installed on my laptop alongside windows and I've been enjoying the lightweight aspect of mint. I know it's not the lightest option but it's way less resource hungry than windows, it really stretches battery life.
Very user friendly and would recommend anyone to try mint as a windows alternative to slowly introduce yourself to Linux.
Process is explained in intelligible ,clear unaccented English ,thank you so much!
As an Aerospace engineer, I cannot thank you enough, Your video's helped me a lot throughout my job
Wow! This is amazing, I just followed the steps and it was as easy as you explained. Thank you, Jay.
My pleasure!
I'm going to try it now. I installed Linux a few years back and I wasn't ready for it. This seems like a great way to become comfortable with Linux while having a bit of a safety net with Windows.
@Hans Hiden In the end I succeeded. I don't fault the video at all. I had to look up how to enter boot mode on my Huawei, I also had to watch another video because my laptop did not create a new partition. Once I learned how to create space on my hard drive, when to insert my USB and the trick of reachicng the boot screen - success. A little extra effort was worth it. Good luck
Holy shit dude thank you I don't normally put comments on videos but yours really deserves it! It really helped me out a whole lot! I was not able to figure this out until I watched your video so thank you so much!
Great video. Straight to the point. Just wondering how you are doing your video capture? Especially when rebooting? Thanks!
I would assume he's using a capture card
Great job. I setting my windows laptop to do the same and just wanted to be sure I didn't mess it up. Thank you,
Perfect. I struggled for an hour before finding your video. Thank you.
This is the most comprehensive tutorial I've ever seen.
Excellent video, you speak clearly and the content is spot on, I appreciate that you fast forward the downloads and installations, Very well done, Thank You. Now wish me luck :-)
Is there a way to set this dual boot up so that each system can share files? If so could you make a video about it? I've seen it demonstrated using Vertual Box but I haven't seen it done with dual boot.
Linux can see and access the files on the windows partition, whereas Windows won't even realise the Linux partition is there and can't read the Linux Ext4 file system.
Thus you can share files if you keep them on the windows partition. A much better alternative is to install linux, and then run windows as a virtual machine inside linux. It may seem intimidating but some good vids here (look up installing Windows 10 on virtualbox).
With this method you can actually RUN Linux and windows simultaneously. Also you can easily create shared folders which work bidirectional ly
Clear and very easy! Thank you very much for this video!
I'm running Win 10 and Mint 19.3. I always freak out when I upgrade. Tell me, please, how to over-write 19.3 with 20.1. Do I delete the Linux partitions, to make 1 partition to install 20? Thanks! Very good, clear tutorial, except for this one question.
Yes, as i know there is direct over-write function. I think it will keep the files of your previous version, but i'm absolutely not sure about this. But maybe you already done this because your comment is from 8 month, but who knows
I installed Windows10 Home from a 120gb SSD onto a 240gb ssd. This left 120gb unallocated on the 240gb SSD. I then installed LinuxMint 20.3 Cinnamon to the unallocated section. During the installation LinuxMint automatically installed the dual boot. It will automatically boot LinuxMint. If I want Windows 10 Home I just do the switch. Everything works like a charm. I transfer files between both operating systems by using a fat32 flash drive.
Super instructional video - thank you. Also, would like to see Pi-Hole used on this Linux Mint OS,
Thanks so much! Trying out linux for the first to see if i like it and if i dont i still got windows
When I get to the page to install, it doesn't say, install along side of Windows 10. Do you know what this would be?
Did you find anything?
make sure in boot menu in bios u select uefi sd drive boot
Are you installing it on a separate drive?
...some tutorial was mention to disable "secure boot from UEFI" (BIOS ? Windows ?), this secure prevent some windows cracks in Windows 8.1, Windows 10. Also mess Linux install.
This was great up to the installation type page. My mint 20 install only gave 2 choices--erase disk and install linux mint and Something Else...nothing about dual boot.
Even mine!
My probelm is that the option for dual installation doesn't even exist for me, only erasing everything, or doing something else
Same here...
Same
Same here. It is precisely because of such problems that linux is not popular...
If you have windows installed only on one partition, then go to diskmgmt and create another partition.
Also before installation, select the non-uefi version of the usb drive in the boot menu.
@@MdHaroonAhmedKhan I think you may have just answered my question! So I shrink the existing partition to make room for linux. Do I have to make another partition in that free space or will linux install in the free space without making another partition?
Many thanks!
One question.
I have my Windows installed on the HDD and want to install linux mint on SDD.
Will the process be the same as shown in the video?
Thank you Jay! However, I'm concerned with the "Something Else" option, because I'd like to know if the partition is a Primary or a Logical! Anyhow, your explanation is excellent, but would like you to make one with the Something Else" option please?
Mine isn't showing me the boot alonside windows option. I can't figure out how to resize the partition using the something else option.
@@VentrueMonarch DOT NOT FOLLOW THIS METHOD, IT WILL BRICK YOUR MACHINE. IT JUST DID TO MINE
@@budexlexxy9319 It will only brick your machine if you don't understand how partitions work. That options requires a bit of technical knowledge, which is quite risky.
Did this for a dual boot of Win7 and Mint 19.2, but messed with the partions and messed up Windows, so I had to wipe and install Mint. Don't really regret it, but there were a couple windows programs I wished I still had access to. Just watched your Mint 20 update for doing mine later this week.
Thx for the video. Does this dual boot method slow down the processor - or would my windows sessions run almost as quickly after installing Linux mint as dual boot?
thanks for your guide, really helped, I liked your talking style/accent, good luck :)
Hola pudiste instalar win7 en uefi gpt??
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Thanks a bunch. Very helpful. No hassle!
Thanks Man, this was clearly explained, and it worked!
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Hi. Thanks for this video. I have no doubt it will work, but I yet have some questions before I dig in. 1). Where is the OS options menu stored? Maybe HDD or BIOS/UEFI? 2). What if I change my mind about Linux Mint? Can I remove just it and go full back to Windows? 3). What if I want to remove Windows and keep Linux? How? 4). What if I need to reinstall Linux after I butcher trying to learn? I am not asking for easy answer, because while I am very new to Linux (only USB Boot once), I have installed Windows 10 many times on many different systems. So Pulling the HDD, Format, reinstall, rebuild Windows is no biggie to me. Just like to know up front. Thanks for taking question. Thanks for sharing. Good day.
thank you for an excellent overview of how to install linux mint. i just purchased a usb with it on it. my intention is to see if i can revive both my old laptops. if that goes well, i want to dual boot with windows on my desktop to test out and then if i like that, get rid of windows 10 WHICH I HATE1 It is always so slow, seems like it is endlessly updating and probably stealing my data. in my early computer career in the early 80s i worked on unix and so i realized that this could be an elegant answer to dump windows once and for all1 thank you so much1
What's missing is how to UNinstall Linux and restore the system to the pre-Linux condition if you decide you don't want to run Linux. I suppose one option would be to just nuke the internal drive by reformatting it, then using the backup made before installing Linux (we DID make the backup, right?), but is there an easier/faster way?
Excellent video, thank you. This is exactly what I am trying to do.
My computer has two hard disks one with Windows10 installed and the other pre-installed with Linux mint, I use the "F8" key for the boot menu every time if I need to switch to Linux otherwise it will boot to wind10 but I want Linux or Windows 10 to be my primary syatem, I don't want to use the P8 key every time.
Exactly what I was looking for - Excellent
best linux tutor ,you made it so easy for me
Very well explained. Thanks
Hey, Thank you for this, sure looks doable.
One thing that I felt like I didn't understand - can you access all the files from both Linux and Windows?
If not, would that be possible in any other way?
As far as I know the systems can't access eachother's files
You can access your Windows files from Linux Mint, but you can't access your Linux files from Windows 10. I save downloads to my windows downloads, video and picture files all the time. But it can't be done the other way.
@@terryh9721 It can. You will need a separate partition formatted as FAT32. Both operating systems can access FAT32. I have a 500G drive that stores all my files that I need to share between both, like documents, music, videos and pictures
worked like a charm! ty for the tutorial !
Just wanted to let folks know that I got NoMachine working on my MacBook Air and remoting into Mint machine just fine! It was suggested by someone on the chat service that’s installed by default in Mint. I’ve been playing with mint for about 6 months on and off.. I just recently swapped in a different spinner drive and installed Ubuntu to get familiar with it, but I like Mint better!
Windows user trying something new here. Just installed to A SD card to try. Thank you. Quick question when I download packages and applications does it install them also on the SD card?
Great video, worked like a charm.
Thank you.
Hey man, I recently found myself in a predicament. So, I finished installing Linux like you said but when I want to load linux it goes straight directly to windows! I didn't even show the grub
It is because your default os boot manager is set to "windows boot manager" in bios settings
1) go to bios settings> system configuration> boot options > go to uefi boot order ( if installed through uefi) then by default it will be "OS Boot manager" just press " ENTER" on OS Boot manager , then you will see 2 options i.e windows boot manager and Ubuntu, " just press "F5" or" F6" and bring Ubuntu on First and windows below it then press F10 to " save" and exit from bios then after boot you will see grub menu as shown in video. It worked for me hope will work on your pc too :)
@@kishorenikam9919 I did what you just said till "os boot manager" but there is only one option which is the windows boot manager and no Linux one
@@saberkouki5760 If you installed Windows after LM it will wipe out grub. Reinstall grub from a Live Mint CD and it will detect both. Windows won't detect Linux if you do that second. If you install Linux second over Windows it will set up the dual boot menu in the bootloader.
Trying to accomplish this as we speak. I have a a Lenovo P300 desktop. It has 2x 2 TB (Total 4 TB) hard drives. I want to be able to run Google Pro and 1 or 2 games that are Windows reliant so I will need to keep Windows 10. At this time, one of the two hard drives is completely empty. I never used it. Am I looking at the same procedures you used in this video ? OR ? Thanks for the video and any information for my situation.
That was excellent. Professionally done. I look forward to doing it. You have assumed that we all know how to make an image of Windows. I looked that up and will find a spare drive to hold the backup. I have a spare drive within my desktop computer set aside for Linux OS, so I should be able to install it on to that drive. Can the GRUB menu be edited? I would like to put Windows at the top and Linux as no 2. I will be using Linux just to play around with.
Thank you very much for your guide. Is there a way to take a backup image of the ssd with the 2 operating systems for later restoring? is there a freeware software to do it?
Thank you for the simple video explanation.
I'm a Linux Power User for many years now and I'm having a hard time installing dual boot (W10 | LM21) in an external USB (NVMe). I have UEFI and Legacy's Grub2. The laptop I'm using as host for the first install recognizes the paths, but other computers don't.
I can't find anywhere on the web a solution for this. Do you accept the challenge?
I can also support for beta testing and providing more specific details.
Thanks a lot for your videos!
Cheers!
Sir i haven't show the 1st option " install linux mint alongside windows10" in installation type...
Only shown other options....
Please fix my problem...
Ur drive needs to be formatted in gpt
Jay thank you for a very well tutorial on this. I have 4 questions for you: #1: I have two drives in my windows 11 system. I would like to keep the entire C drive for windows and then put Linux Mint on the D drive. It can have all of it. #2: Can I or would you recommend running a webserver from this system? #3: I don't know if they are part of your group but the person's name is Don Pezet. He had a video on "How To Secure A Raspberry Pi". Can I also do what he does? #4: Can I put Webmin on this system as well?
Thanks
Dan
Hi, not really a question on dual booting, but rather how does one remove Linux mint system from laptop/(mini)notebook and install windows 10 instead?
very good ,BUT what about a duel drive system? with linux on one and windows on the second. I am in the process of building a new computer, it will have 2 m.2 drives, one will be dedicated for my main daily needs(linux) and the other (windows) for the games I have that will not easily run under linux. NO preexisting OS on anything. again a very good video.
I'm getting a new computer soon, should dual booting be the first thing i do when i get it?
Thank you, just the video I needed to see.
Hi what if I want to install mint linux on a separate drive?is it possible? I already installed win10 on one ssd 240g.i have a 128g ssd for linux..but not showing 128 GB disk when I try to install linux...can you help?
So with mint 20 you don't have to free up space beforehand since mint 20 will do that for you? Same with Cinnamon or Mate versions? No problems with UEFI? I'm getting a refurb Dell and I want to make it a dual boot. I've had problems doing that with my Dell laptop. It would run the live usb but failed to install, it just wouldn't let me!
is it possible to install, e.g., five different Linux distros to compare/try them out - with any sharing of resources/drive space, or would each distro require quite a bit of disk space/resources, thereby limiting the practicality to only 2 or 3?
I have installed Linux Mint and I would like to have a dual boot with Windows 10. So how do I do the opposite of what you shown? Thank you and awesome video!
No , create a separate partition and install windows 10.
superb..great video , thanks
Great tutorial 🔥🔥tho I'd recommend Ventoy to make Bootable flash drives, since it's as easy as copy pasting the iso file into the flash drive 👌🏾.You can have multiple isos on the same flash drive which I think is really cool 🔥🔥🔥oh and it's open source too🔥
Thanks for this video, it is very simple. My wifi seems not to be working with Linux, what could have gone wrong?
Excellent video. The Linux Mint install is perfect. Trying to download a Microsoft Windows that is not corrupted by the time you start Etcher is seemingly impossible! Do they (Microsoft) prefer that we purchase Windows 10 from Amazon or some other vendor?
Excellent video! Thank you!
Excellent tutorial!
Thank you from France
great tutorial, very good explanation
Can you make a video how to install windows 10, if you already have Linux Mint installed on your drive and then dual boot them? It is possible? Thank you
Great, helpful video!!! Thanks!
Very hepful !! Thank you very much for sharing this for us
Perfect. Thank you.
You make it look so easy. Too bad mint refuses to let me install it along a fresh install of win 10 without a complicated partition.
Are you saying that your installation didn't go like the one in this video? Were you able to go into Windows Disk Management (or whatever it's called) and set the partitions or did you have to use a third party partition manager? And ultimately, did you get the installation done so that you could boot to either Windows or Linux Mint?
Ubuntu Linux? I have already done that and I am watching on the dual booted device.
Linux Mint? hell yes
my usb flash drive got filled up
for some reason i saw my comment below my original comment?
So the installer resizes existing partitions itself to match whatever is written? Can I not delete a windows partition of appropriate size, like E:\ where I keep odds and ends, and then install Mint there? How would the screen look then? Assuming I deleted a 100GB partition, and set the Linux space to 90GB just to be sure, would the Windows partitions remain untouched and unresized and the installation will go in the unallocated space? Yes, backup first :D...
Thank you so much!
Really good tech!!
Thanks man this was to the point and efficient, best
would this be the same process if I want to install linux on one hard drive and keep windows on my other hard drive and choose which one boots up upon power up of my desktop
Yes, Dual Boot is to have two OSs on a machine
Thanks for the awesome video. I am not seeing an option to do a dual boot when asking to install Linux, as it is in your video - only "erase everything". Could there be something wrong with my original windows partition systems etc? Says it hasn’t detected Windows as the existing OS. thank you.
ethcher is more bloated than pretty much anything else. Rufus is much smaller. Or you can use ventoy!!
Etcher is my favourite, its the best, plus it works on linux. Plus rufus is just so ugly, and a bit complicated and only on windows, but etcher is very straightforward
Hey! I have the same exact lamp you have!
Question : the dual partition will not corrupt windows 10 right . In the past i installed Linux on a same hard drive and I let the linux create the dual boot. Problems would happen when i would do a windows update then the master boot record get corrupted and then I cant boot into windows at all. I once found a video where i followed the indian person youtube which i cant findanymore. i er i installed win 10 and linux on separate partions so far no problems and when either operating system updates there is no issue GRUB works wonderful. ANY thoughts?
amazing tutorial sir, I respect, but sir at 9:06 I forgot to select the drive option C and installed in wrong drive D so, It does not prompt me to choose OS it directly starting Windows 10.....Plz help me to fix it sir,
Works like a charm!
I'm thinking of moving to linux
I have a question about this live boot thing
If I keep it on the USB drive can I keep using it as is?
Is there any limitations?
I mean is it like when you want to try a game and get the demo version so you can try it but it's not actually the full game
Is this the case here?
Thank you again for the wonderful explaining in the video
Most of the time, you have to format your USB drive to use it like normal, because when you create a bootable USB, it creates some partitions, and this won't allow you to use it as normal, so you have to format it.
And no, with a live session, you don't have any limitations (or maybe just the size of your USB drive obviously), you can even install new programs to it and will work, and when you are done, testing it only or installing, you just reboot and everything gets reset, so anything you install or save during the live session gets erased, so make sure to save the things that you want to keep in another location. And if you boot again into the USB, you get a new, clean live session, hope this answers your questions ;) welcome to the Linux world!
@@wj8419 thank you
@@robertobautista2171 thank you
But if I may ask another question I actually have 2 usb drive one of them is 64gb and the other is 16
So can I flash the OS image on the 16 gb then run the installation and choose the 64gb drive as my install destination
Will this be a normal installation and my (word files - new programs etc) will stay no matter if I reboot or not?
Is it possible?
@@feras5017 I'm not quite sure if that would work, honestly I never tried to do that, neither searched it, but I wouldn't recommend it anyway, the experience in a USB drive, will never be the same as in a hard drive or SSD, and it can even mess with your system, because it will create a boot entry in your BIOS (or UEFI), and your system won't boot up unless you have the USB plugged in (and even like that, it might not boot) or you change your boot order in the settings of your BIOS (or UEFI), and if you have another OS like WIndows, it might break it too. So... my suggestion here is that, if you wanna try linux, you could try it in a Virtual Machine (with programs like VirtualBox), install it on another laptop or pc, that you don't use or something, if you have another one of course, or directly installing on your device along with your existing OS. Hope this info helps! :)
@@robertobautista2171 thank you so much for taking the time to explain.