Install Windows over existing Linux Mint in dual boot mode using boot repair
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- The process of how to install windows over existing Linux Mint in dual boot mode. You will need to create Windows and Linux Mint bootable Flash Drive, free some space, install Windows and repair boot loader. For Windows, you will need at least 8 GB flash drive, for Linux Mint, you will need at least 2 GB flash drive.
Steps involved:
1. Create Windows bootable USB
2. Create Linux Mint bootable USB
3. Boot from Linux Mint USB
4. Shrink existing partition and un-allocate disk space
5. Boot from Windows Flash Drive
6. Run Windows installation
7. Boot from Linux Mint USB
8. Repair Grub Boot Loader
9. Restart system to load Linux Mint or Windows operating system by choosing from Boot Menu.
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Worked great, thanks. I had a problem where I couldn't get the Windows ISO to load correctly, no matter what I did. So, I went to a Windows machine and used the Media Creation Tool to make the bootable Windows USB drive and it worked fine.
Yes that's the real hack in case of problem in creating Windows bootable USB
Works perfectly! Did this today with Windows 11. Perfekt!
Thenk you :)
You deserve more likes ...
Worked well
Thank you, this is amazing. I succeeded thanks to your tutorial.
Thanks for the appreciation 🙂
that was amazing! thank you so much.
Error: Nvram is locked(linuxmint not found in efibootmgr). In boot repair step
It doesn't show up as bootable on my boot menu with UEFI selected, secure boot ON and TPM on as required by windows. any suggestions
On windows install i get 'we couldn't create or locate an existing partition'
I am stuck on intalling windows till that everything is smooth. I don't have the same boot menu as you what i yave to do
does this delete the current linux mint i have???
I have three questions:
1. When downloading the linux distro iso, shall I download the exact same distro I have (for example linux mint lmde4) ?
2. I have MSI laptop, so where do I get this boot option that easily shows for hp?
3. My usb is recognized as: /dev/sda1 so shall I remove the number 1 just like you did?
1. No, any should do it since gparted is just frontend to parted and fdisk, but some distros include it on the iso.
2. Generally by pressing f2, esc or f12, depends on machine.
3. Why is it sda1 (these are generally your main drive boot partition), but yes
Bro boot repair worked but in the end it's written an error occured during this repair , boot files of linux mint are far from the start of the disk your bios may not detect them , you may want to retry after creating a boot partition ext4 start of the disk this can be performed via tool such as gparted then select this partition via the separate boot partition option of boot repair
It will be better to install OS on your disk from scratch and to keep it clean.
i don't know what's the problem is, but i'm trying to install Windows 7 alongside linux mint cinnamon but i c'ant it just boots from hard drive, i changed the boot order to usb hard drive at first but it just doesn't boot. can you help me?
You need to boot from the flash drive. You need to press a function or other special key (Del, Esc, F10, F2, etc..) to enter bios as soon as systen is power on. Generally the choice is briefly flashed on screen when the computer powers on.
Enter BIOS/ UEFI setup, turn off secure boot, enable boot from usb option, save settings, restart.
Press some function key again to display boot menu (F9, F12, etc...) to display boot menu, boot from usb, install windows and turn on secure boot again. The function keys are different on different make and model of computers, the required key is generally displayed when system boots.
If still not booting then try "Enable legacy boot" option then try again.
Hi , I dont have the root password to do this, can you help me?, is there any ways?
Could I do it for windows 7? I am on mint currently
Yes.
Could this work with ‘Ventoy’?
thank you
Welcome 👍
Can we install 3 windows in a system?? I've windows 8.1 and 7 already so can I install windows 10 on my 3rd partition directly through a bootable pen drive or are there some procedures to follow?
Yes you can install. Free up some space from existing partitions and install.
4:10 what did you type/command here for that? please tell
Nothing, it just updates
Bro another problem have occurred the pendrive which I made bootable USB drive of mint os using that img to something software on linux mint isn't working on windows but it's working fine on linux , it's showing under connected devices and I'm getting attached/deaatached sound on windows too when I put and remove it but it's not showing on my computer
You need to format the flash drive as described in this post www.techsolveprac.com/repair-flash-drive to make it reusable with normal capacity.
I don't get what you did with the first DD command. Looks like you copied the .iso files from sdb1 to sdb. Why?
dd command is used to make bootable flash drive by writing content of iso file to usb drive. Generally, sda is Hard Disk of your PC. sdb is any external disk (usb or second hdd) attache to PC. In our case it is usb. The numbers in the end 1,2,3,etc are the partitions on the USB drive. While making a drive bootable we don't need existing partitions so we ignore the last digits and use complete USB drive upto /dev/sdb only.
@@TechSolvePrac: OK, so that does the same as, say Rufus or UnetBootIn?
Thanks for the quick reply. I'm trying to do this now!
@@KutWrite Yes. You can use Rufus, Balena Etcher, etc. Or can use dd command on terminal.
@@TechSolvePrac: I've gotten as far as the first installation screen (languages, etc). Apparently there's a problem using USB 3.0 devices such as my kbd & trackball, which become dead at that point.
So far the only patch I see is for people who already run Windows (e.g. XP). However, I may be able to twiddle my BIOS to not set up USB3 just during the setup. Or maybe plug a kbd into a USB2 slot?
This is so much work at this point I may soon give up, or maybe Win10 is less hassle after all, though it has stuff I don't want cluttering my system. All this hassle reminds me why I dumped MS products to begin with!
Stay tuned!
@@KutWrite You have crossed most hurdles if windows setup has begun. It's a major problem with users to boot from USB and start Installation of windows. Please try your options to complete the setup.
how did you create that "MY DRIVE" folder on the desktop in the start?
It got mounted when he plugged the usb
@@rpxdytx yeah but how tf do you mount ur usb to the desktop
Some oses make a shortcut to the mount point automatically, or an option can make they do so
My drive is not a director or folder it's the volume name of the pendrive.
why do you even need 2 usb drives, just format you drive using gparted, and insert a windows bootable usb
One can use a single USB also, but he will need to make it bootable for Windows and Linux alternatively.
@@TechSolvePrac you can just disable booting for linux in bios
Good video I am having no strugle
Thanks 😊
What if a don't want to dual boot and just want windows and already recovered my data
Then you can check out how to remove linux mint and install Windows ruclips.net/video/r7uRk0Fi-Vc/видео.html
After I followed those steps I've stocked my Linux won't open contact me plz I'm about to lose my data
Were you able to install windows successfully?
Hello,does this still work? I just had a really bad experience trying to dual boot from windows to windows and linux now my whole system is linux
Yes it works
@@TechSolvePrac ok will try
@@hwhat ok
@@hwhat did it work
@@fluffsi this was 4 months ago so from what I remembered ,this didnt work because the usb that i was using for windows was having trouble , I couldnt get into the windows installation media. But now knowing how it works this video is a good solution to try,but if you have another laptop with windows in it its easier to make a bootable windows drive from that.
Bro i format the flash to ntfs and the hard disk ntfs but not booting to windows and i tried to format flash to fat32 and same formatt to hard disk but still not booting to windows whats problem and flash showing 6.4gb
Did you setup USB as the first boot device?
yes bro + my hard disk its MBR and i think fat32 not working whith mbr so fo you know how i convert my hard disk so GPT on linuxmint?
Which method did you use to create windows usb?
check later thanx
When I type in the command it says invalid number 4H
It's 4M
Bro windows bootable pen drive isn't working but Linux one is working , in windows one it's directly opening linux , I installed linux first , what should I do now???
First you need to ensure that your flash drive is made Bootable properly. Check if windows installation files are written on it and size of the flash drive is around 6.2 GB.
Second, you need to ensure that you are able to boot from flash drive. Enter BIOS, Turn off secure boot, Enable boot from USB option, Save settings, Restart, Display boot menu, boot from USB, Install Windows and turn On secure boot again.
Yes it's showing 6gb only and all steps in this video were successfully completed
@@oracle4127 it should be 6.2 GB. Will suggest you to retry creating windows USB again.
Second, this issue Mostly occurs due to secure boot setting. Turn off secure boot then try. If there is an option to switch to "Legacy boot". Then try that also.
@@TechSolvePrac yes 6.2 and there's no option of secure boot on my pc it's only fast boot option which I've disabled , I did it again and still same issue
We need to display (by pressing some special key as per your computer model) boot menu to choose boot device exclusively even after selecting them in BIOS setup. Try pressing some key to display list of booting device while restarting.
I used ventoy software and successfully created a bootable pen drive from linux mint , other methods didn't worked and the drive wasn't booting 👍
Ultimately your issue is resolved 👍
So here's my problem I was having win 7 & 8.1 and phoenix os installed on my pc and I opened disk partition on win 8.1 and shrunked one of my drives where win 7 was installed and then there was free space and in that free space I created a new partition using gparted in Linux and installed linux there now there's no option to boot into win 7 but only linux and win 8.1 is showing , what has happened to my win 7?
Are windows folders such as Program files, users, Windows, etc. still available in C: drive of that Windows 7 partition? Check on that partition from existing operating systems?
@@TechSolvePrac yes they're present there and I've successfully copied important files from there
Then you can try boot repair. It may repair Grub Boot Loader and the windows entry may appear back.
@@TechSolvePrac at the end of boot repair a page is coming in which after clicking forward it's showing grub hasn't been removed yet click again and all , do you have whatsapp or any other messaging app through which I can send you pics?
@@cashmoney2159 no issues. Once boot repair is completed restart PC and check.
brother the error says "unable to locate package dd"
That's weird, which distro?
Can't I use mintstick to make my USB bootable ?
Whats a mintstick?
@@TechSolvePrac an improved version of USB-ImageWriter, which is based on dd utility and came from OpenSUSE
make chrome os installation videos , on flash drives too
Ok. Will work on it and upload. Keep subscribed to know when it is published.
can we upgrade linux mint to windows with 8gb pendrive?
Yes
@@TechSolvePrac but in mine it says no bootable device please restart system even when i write iso file in my flash drive
It says that I can't write windows on gpt partition.
You need to install windows on unallocated space
@@TechSolvePrac And that's what I did. It still says it's impossible.
Try turning off secure boot and retry .
@@TechSolvePrac It's turned off in BIOS by default. I cannot turn it on even if I want to.
@@ivioca try to turn on legacy boot then try
Hi, can this mode (app) be used with all Linux distributions? (Mint in my case). Thanks ;)
Yes . It will work
@@TechSolvePrac Thank you very much and congratulations for the channel;)
Most welcome 🙂
windows...YUCK!!