Thank you very much! It worked for me along with Windows 10. I had to make these adjustments: Changed the BIOS from legacy to UEFI and disabled fast boot (before installing Windows and Linux) Also had to install Linux Mint in compatibility mode due to the install freezing apparently caused by the Nvidia graphics card. I updated the Nvidia driver afterwards when prompted after the install. I hope someone else might find this useful if struggling to get it to work.
Thankyou for this technique. I had to use esc key to start grub up on reboot. Now I will use Linux for the AI and windows in the rest of compute world. It was nice to work with command prompt again, back in 1979 that is what was used until Windows came around with the graphical interface and I forgot so many of the scripting and commands. We used to even write routines for multitasking programs until Windows popped up. So much fun to relive the old days of compute. 😅
Thanks! this worked excellently! Clear, no fluff, step by step instructions. After creating the Linux UEFI and installing Linux, remember to CHECK THE BOOT ORDER in BIOS to promote the newly created Linux uefi to boot first.
Mine went into windows directly after installing Linux. Looked at comments and went into bios to change the UEFI HDD priority from windows boot manager to ubuntu
Absolutely fantastic video. Lucky to have come across it right when I was going to install Linux mint using a sub-optimal method.. subscribed .. keep up the fantastic work
Hi KMD Tech, I have a HP Laptop with Windows 11. I used this laptop to install Linux-Mint on a "San Disk USB-drive" (please note I am not installing the Mint on HP laptop but a USB drive). So I got hold of two USB drives (first one is this "San Disk USB-drive" and to start with it is blank (no data on it) and second one is PNY USB-drive), I used Rufus to copy the Linux-Mint on PNY. Now on my switched off Windows laptop I plugged in PNY (it has Mint) and plugged in "San Disk USB-drive" (it is blank). I switched the Windows laptop On, I go into PNY and see the Mint Desktop in "try Linux Mint" mode. I click on install Linux Mint, I chose "San Disk USB-drive" as the target to install Mint. The Linux Mint was installed perfectly on the San Disk USB-drive. But now the problem is I am not able to boot into Windows on this HP laptop and I have to plugin the "San Disk USB-drive" (that has Linux Mint and the Windows Boot files (I hope I am saying it right!)) to choose which of the Linux-Mint or Windows I should boot into. Linux Mint is ok, because I wanted it on San Disk. Now without San Disk USB-drive the Windows is not starting, I have to have San Disk every time to start Windows. Please pardon my limited knowledge of EFI, Boot Mgr, GRUB etc. Can you pls guide me How to rectify this ... that is bring the Windows Boot Information back to it's EFI Partition on Windows. Thank You !
Thanks for clarifying this process. I updated Linux mint from 20.1 to version 22 on a dual boot 1 drive window 10. Linux 22 was fine but lost dual boot startup menu. I just ran a time shift restore to put everything back. I was looking for clear instructions. Strange that Linux mint knows about this does nothing.
Failed trying this on my own. Couldn't get the dual boot to work on this old Win 10 Asus. Followed your instructions carefully. No worries. Worked like a charm. Thanks for the video. BTW, it's a bit difficult trying to read the typing info from a screen while installing. If you could include a script with all the Terminal commands it would be great to print it out and have it ready to go. I was worried I'd mistype and screw things up. Cheers.
Amazing video! thanks for the help, but if I want to completely remove the linux system from my drive how can I delete the EFI partition (created for linux) from windows?
This is such a smart farsighted solution and it worked great. Thank you so much! The only small irritation I encountered was that after rebooting the UEFI MOK management (Secure Boot) popped up. I just ignored it for now.
Does this not work on mbr disks? Everytime I set the boot on at 8:06, the linux efi will automatically be off, seems that i can only make 1 boot drive. I followed everything thoroughly, idk where to go from this..
Thank you for putting this tut together, very helpful and it worked 👍. The real question (as you point out @ 1:08) is why you can be misled into thinking you've done this when creating a second efi partition? That turned this into a multi hour troubleshoot before I arrived here.
I have an issue with an older AMD Gigabyte computer I use to put practice loads on. When I went back in to put a flag on sda1 it did, but it takes off my boot flag off sda 5, if I put it back on 5 it removes it again off 1.
Thanks, it worked perfectly. But I have a question, please respond. I turned off SecureBoot and disabled Bitlocker on my C Drive(other drives were already off) before performing this since I heard they're a nuisance. So, is it okay if I turn them both back on? Are they even necessary?
Hi, i couldn’t find the windows boot loader after using the commands and I can’t dual boot as linux keeps loading without an option to boot into windows
can you delete the line enabling OS_prober from the etc/default/grub file again after installing? as its flagged as a security risk and is therefore disabled by default? will grub still find both operating systems on boot?
For my Sony Vaio i5 4gbRAM- windows 10 is installed on C drive. Have installed linux mint with additional EFI partition as suggested, however still no grub menu is available.
can the unflagging win-system efi also be done in Gparted app instead of thru terminal ? BTW when installing Windows 11, it makes no new 100MB system efi partition in case there already exists a efi/boot system partition from a linux install - Win11 install will use that and convert it into a Windows system efi/boot partition, that may throw out Linux efi bootloader properties
All good so far but when I restart it just boots in Windows 10. I used the Windows Linux Mint Cinnamon installer. Any ideas what I need to do to get a dual boot ? I tried UEFI and Legacy settings in the BIOS.
Hey bro..i was getting alert to turn off rst while installing mint.. i changed some setting from boot to AHCI and it installed..after that while booting into windows, i got the error bootable device not found..and while fixing that it was showing the disk is not mbr..long story short i had to format everything from the ssd..do you know how to solve this?
Thanks for the video. This bug has been bugging me, but I have a question. When removing the boot flag from the windows efi partiton. If i want to dualboot from a seperate disk, can I just go for the "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" option, and it will make a efi partion on that disk? Or do I have to go for the manual partition for it to work properly?
Yes, as long as you have the boot flag removed then you can use the "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" option and select your separate disk. After it's installed, put back the boot flag and update grub as seen in the video.
Hello Sir and thank you very much for your invaluable video. Is there any use for creating a /boot partition with your partitionning way? And if so, is there any risk making one? I'm sorry i'm a very average user and i need your advice. Thanks in advance, God bless you!
Hi, I installed Linux mint 21.3 MATE Before I saw this video. I CANNOT boot into windows 7 OS. I can boot LM-Mate. The grub menu does come up. It gives option for windows 7, but screen goes black for 2 seconds. Then scrren boots back into grub menu. How do i fix the issue so I can boot into windows 7? 🙃👋
Didn't work. I am on a Lenovo laptop, I followed step by step, with the same results until i rebooted the system. Straight up ignored Linux, went directly to Windows and even when i changed the boot order It went straight to windows. (I did all this process with secure boot disabled, and It still didn't work) I'm really sorry, i've been trying for a week to install Linux Mint. Even this did not work, and gave me the same results as the other metods. It's actually a very well made tutorial, btw
Just in case if someone can't load windows after installing linux with prohibited by safe boot followed by no such device:[your device] and error unknown filesystem. Disable the safe boot in your uefi i install this at 3 am and it gives me heart attack when i can't load my windows :'D
Word of caution doing this, Windows has done updates and wiped my grub menu leaving me to have to figure out how to restore the grub menu to get back into Linux. Forget Windows and just go with Linux!!!! IMO
Yes, Microsoft is known for removing anything not related to Windows in the EFI partition after an update so it's recommended to create and use a separate EFI partition for Linux.
@@Knowlxdqe It's because I was thinking of switching and still considering it. The thing is, it seems that to do ANYTHING on Linux, it's open a terminal and start typing shit. That's what EVERYBODY does in EVERY Linux tutorial I see, they open a terminal and start typing in long verbose lines of script it might just as well be the source code itself! On Windows it's so simple to fix a problem, a couple of clicks here, a couple of clicks there, boom, done. Why can't Linux be that simple?
@@CoolDudeClem oh, same tbf but Linux Mint is the best for beginners but if you play xbox games on windows then you cant play them on linux (i play microsoft flight simulator on windows through xbox app)
@@CoolDudeClemThis video is about solving a problem that wouldn't exist without Microsoft. It is Windows that deletes Linux from the shared boot partition, not the other way around. This behavioral relationship runs like a common thread through everything that concerns Microsoft and its founder, the great philanthropist. Ask large companies why their servers generally run on Linux, even if they serve Windows clients.
you're the best. monkey-level "tutorials" are killing me. sharing internet technology with other countries were a mistake. as well teaching them English language.
After dozens of attempts to follow tutorials that never worked, yours worked perfectly, thank you !!!!
Glad it helped!
@@KMDTechA problem occurred here while creating partition after giving 512 mb for efi it shows other unallocated space unusable
Thank you very much! It worked for me along with Windows 10. I had to make these adjustments: Changed the BIOS from legacy to UEFI and disabled fast boot (before installing Windows and Linux) Also had to install Linux Mint in compatibility mode due to the install freezing apparently caused by the Nvidia graphics card. I updated the Nvidia driver afterwards when prompted after the install. I hope someone else might find this useful if struggling to get it to work.
Thankyou for this technique. I had to use esc key to start grub up on reboot. Now I will use Linux for the AI and windows in the rest of compute world. It was nice to work with command prompt again, back in 1979 that is what was used until Windows came around with the graphical interface and I forgot so many of the scripting and commands. We used to even write routines for multitasking programs until Windows popped up. So much fun to relive the old days of compute. 😅
You’re an absolute life saver. Couldn’t get a Linux OS to dual boot until I used your recommendation of turn off the boot flag for the windows UEFI. 🎉
Thanks! this worked excellently! Clear, no fluff, step by step instructions. After creating the Linux UEFI and installing Linux, remember to CHECK THE BOOT ORDER in BIOS to promote the newly created Linux uefi to boot first.
Mine went into windows directly after installing Linux. Looked at comments and went into bios to change the UEFI HDD priority from windows boot manager to ubuntu
Do I still need to do this is I use a 2nd SSD drive ? I rather not take out my windows m2 drive due to the very tight space it is wedged in .
Really helpful video. Everything works as was described. Thank you very much!
Great to hear!
When formatting the USB, (in Rufus) is it mandatory to have the "filesystem," as "NTFS?"
Absolutely fantastic video. Lucky to have come across it right when I was going to install Linux mint using a sub-optimal method.. subscribed .. keep up the fantastic work
Great to hear! Thank you for watching!
Thank you. Had some issues along the way but managed to get it working with windows 10
Hi KMD Tech, I have a HP Laptop with Windows 11. I used this laptop to install Linux-Mint on a "San Disk USB-drive" (please note I am not installing the Mint on HP laptop but a USB drive). So I got hold of two USB drives (first one is this "San Disk USB-drive" and to start with it is blank (no data on it) and second one is PNY USB-drive), I used Rufus to copy the Linux-Mint on PNY. Now on my switched off Windows laptop I plugged in PNY (it has Mint) and plugged in "San Disk USB-drive" (it is blank). I switched the Windows laptop On, I go into PNY and see the Mint Desktop in "try Linux Mint" mode. I click on install Linux Mint, I chose "San Disk USB-drive" as the target to install Mint. The Linux Mint was installed perfectly on the San Disk USB-drive. But now the problem is I am not able to boot into Windows on this HP laptop and I have to plugin the "San Disk USB-drive" (that has Linux Mint and the Windows Boot files (I hope I am saying it right!)) to choose which of the Linux-Mint or Windows I should boot into. Linux Mint is ok, because I wanted it on San Disk. Now without San Disk USB-drive the Windows is not starting, I have to have San Disk every time to start Windows. Please pardon my limited knowledge of EFI, Boot Mgr, GRUB etc.
Can you pls guide me How to rectify this ... that is bring the Windows Boot Information back to it's EFI Partition on Windows. Thank You !
I have 32 gb SanDisk USB ....is it enough ?
Do I need two usbs to install Mint XFCE on my SanDisk USB ?
Thanks for clarifying this process. I updated Linux mint from 20.1 to version 22 on a dual boot 1 drive window 10. Linux 22 was fine but lost dual boot startup menu. I just ran a time shift restore to put everything back. I was looking for clear instructions. Strange that Linux mint knows about this does nothing.
Failed trying this on my own. Couldn't get the dual boot to work on this old Win 10 Asus. Followed your instructions carefully. No worries. Worked like a charm. Thanks for the video. BTW, it's a bit difficult trying to read the typing info from a screen while installing. If you could include a script with all the Terminal commands it would be great to print it out and have it ready to go. I was worried I'd mistype and screw things up. Cheers.
Thank you for watching!
Worked like a charm. Thank you so much ^^
Amazing video! thanks for the help, but if I want to completely remove the linux system from my drive how can I delete the EFI partition (created for linux) from windows?
This is such a smart farsighted solution and it worked great. Thank you so much! The only small irritation I encountered was that after rebooting the UEFI MOK management (Secure Boot) popped up. I just ignored it for now.
You're welcome!
Does this not work on mbr disks?
Everytime I set the boot on at 8:06, the linux efi will automatically be off, seems that i can only make 1 boot drive.
I followed everything thoroughly, idk where to go from this..
Use gpt instead of mbr
Thank you for putting this tut together, very helpful and it worked 👍. The real question (as you point out @ 1:08) is why you can be misled into thinking you've done this when creating a second efi partition? That turned this into a multi hour troubleshoot before I arrived here.
THANK YOU BRO! This is an easy method and it worked! just follow the instructions correctly.
I have an issue with an older AMD Gigabyte computer I use to put practice loads on. When I went back in to put a flag on sda1 it did, but it takes off my boot flag off sda 5, if I put it back on 5 it removes it again off 1.
Hello, this might be a stupid question. Since im new to this, do i really need to shrink from the C drive ? Or i can use another like F drive ?
Yep, you can use another drive that is fine. I just had the C: drive so I shrunk it from there.
I am going direclty to windows after mint installation when restarting. Secure boot is disabled
Thanks, it worked perfectly.
But I have a question, please respond.
I turned off SecureBoot and disabled Bitlocker on my C Drive(other drives were already off) before performing this since I heard they're a nuisance. So, is it okay if I turn them both back on? Are they even necessary?
Hi, i couldn’t find the windows boot loader after using the commands and I can’t dual boot as linux keeps loading without an option to boot into windows
can you delete the line enabling OS_prober from the etc/default/grub file again after installing? as its flagged as a security risk and is therefore disabled by default? will grub still find both operating systems on boot?
Hey, one question, does it really matter to make boot and boot efi partitions to install linux?
For my Sony Vaio i5 4gbRAM- windows 10 is installed on C drive. Have installed linux mint with additional EFI partition as suggested, however still no grub menu is available.
Hi, I have followed all the steps but still after restarting, windows is opening by default. I cant boot into my linux system without bootmanager
can the unflagging win-system efi also be done in Gparted app instead of thru terminal ?
BTW when installing Windows 11, it makes no new 100MB system efi partition in case there already exists a efi/boot system partition from a linux install - Win11 install will use that and convert it into a Windows system efi/boot partition, that may throw out Linux efi bootloader properties
Yep, you can use gparted as well.
All good so far but when I restart it just boots in Windows 10. I used the Windows Linux Mint Cinnamon installer. Any ideas what I need to do to get a dual boot ? I tried UEFI and Legacy settings in the BIOS.
Hey bro..i was getting alert to turn off rst while installing mint.. i changed some setting from boot to AHCI and it installed..after that while booting into windows, i got the error bootable device not found..and while fixing that it was showing the disk is not mbr..long story short i had to format everything from the ssd..do you know how to solve this?
Thanks for the video. This bug has been bugging me, but I have a question. When removing the boot flag from the windows efi partiton. If i want to dualboot from a seperate disk, can I just go for the "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" option, and it will make a efi partion on that disk? Or do I have to go for the manual partition for it to work properly?
Yes, as long as you have the boot flag removed then you can use the "Erase disk and install Linux Mint" option and select your separate disk. After it's installed, put back the boot flag and update grub as seen in the video.
Hello Sir and thank you very much for your invaluable video. Is there any use for creating a /boot partition with your partitionning way? And if so, is there any risk making one? I'm sorry i'm a very average user and i need your advice. Thanks in advance, God bless you!
Magic ! Many thanks!
Hello mister, i have dual boot but audio only works in windows and not in mint, do you know why can this be happening?
You probably need to install the audio driver manually
Whenever I load up Linux Mint no matter if I am on Legacy or UEFI mode, no EFI partition shows up for whatever reason. Can someone help with this?
Hi, I installed Linux mint 21.3 MATE Before I saw this video. I CANNOT boot into windows 7 OS. I can boot LM-Mate. The grub menu does come up. It gives option for windows 7, but screen goes black for 2 seconds. Then scrren boots back into grub menu. How do i fix the issue so I can boot into windows 7? 🙃👋
Windows is unbootable, you need to reinstall winrows
Thanks so much you save my day!!!
You're welcome!
Great video thank you!!
Thanks for the video. Unfortunately GRUB enter fine on the first boot, after it just go directly to Windows 11
In case you haven't figured it out yet, go into your BIOS and set the linux bootloader to be prioritized over windows, that should fix it!
Thanks 🙏 Unfortunately the linux bootloader is not available in the boot menu
Thank for every thing ❤
It just boots me back into windows no matter if I choose the optical,USB or hard drive
Thanks 🎉😊
You're welcome!
can i do this on lmde?
Please do a tutorial on MBR disk
thanks. this helps a lof :)
You're welcome!
Oh my god youre a lifesaver
No problem, thanks for watching!
Didn't work. I am on a Lenovo laptop, I followed step by step, with the same results until i rebooted the system. Straight up ignored Linux, went directly to Windows and even when i changed the boot order It went straight to windows.
(I did all this process with secure boot disabled, and It still didn't work)
I'm really sorry, i've been trying for a week to install Linux Mint. Even this did not work, and gave me the same results as the other metods. It's actually a very well made tutorial, btw
Do not install grub on sda1, always install it on sda, wtf
Why no swap, pls?
This was a simple install with /, swap can still be added after the installation. Thanks for watching!
Also make video on clean uninstall
So thanks
When i reboot the windows boot manager comes up
did you even watch the video? thats supposed to happen
@@Knowlxdqe bruh he directly boots into linux mint after installation
Just in case if someone can't load windows after installing linux with prohibited by safe boot followed by no such device:[your device] and error unknown filesystem.
Disable the safe boot in your uefi
i install this at 3 am and it gives me heart attack when i can't load my windows :'D
Word of caution doing this, Windows has done updates and wiped my grub menu leaving me to have to figure out how to restore the grub menu to get back into Linux. Forget Windows and just go with Linux!!!! IMO
Yes, Microsoft is known for removing anything not related to Windows in the EFI partition after an update so it's recommended to create and use a separate EFI partition for Linux.
@@KMDTech I just got rid of Windows and only boot to Linux now. Much better solution for everyone now. 😄
You lost me after you opened up a terminal and started typing things. Unless I can SEE a GRAPHCAL representation of what's going on, I have no clue.
why you even on a linux video?
@@Knowlxdqe It's because I was thinking of switching and still considering it. The thing is, it seems that to do ANYTHING on Linux, it's open a terminal and start typing shit. That's what EVERYBODY does in EVERY Linux tutorial I see, they open a terminal and start typing in long verbose lines of script it might just as well be the source code itself! On Windows it's so simple to fix a problem, a couple of clicks here, a couple of clicks there, boom, done. Why can't Linux be that simple?
@@CoolDudeClem oh, same tbf but Linux Mint is the best for beginners but if you play xbox games on windows then you cant play them on linux (i play microsoft flight simulator on windows through xbox app)
@@CoolDudeClemThis video is about solving a problem that wouldn't exist without Microsoft. It is Windows that deletes Linux from the shared boot partition, not the other way around. This behavioral relationship runs like a common thread through everything that concerns Microsoft and its founder, the great philanthropist.
Ask large companies why their servers generally run on Linux, even if they serve Windows clients.
Thanks for helping me delete Windows 11 and EVERYTHING ON IT..
So I might have accidentally deleted my windows
That was easier in good old days: BIOS, MBR times i mean
Maybe we got older 😂
you're the best.
monkey-level "tutorials" are killing me. sharing internet technology with other countries were a mistake. as well teaching them English language.
Being an indian i feel so, authentic guide tutorial is hard to get. Most of them are made with partial or half knowledge.
@@AjayPatel-jz1ym >poo
@@better_dead_than_red >POOO IN THE LOOOOOOO
@@team_k00pkiddd so much this.
do a tutorial on how to remove it now
am just gonna stick to f windows before I accidentally delete my system and my personal files
HELP😢: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg .
Sourcing file '/ect/default/grub'
/usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig: 42: /ect/default/grub: D: not found😢
it's /etc/