Whenever I install an operating system I disconnect all other drives in that PC. This takes out all of the guesswork. One drive - one choice. Keep it simple.
Great advice!!! Although unless you are different from me, i suggest unplugging all the other drives. Last time i re-installed Windows, i accidentally reformatted a 3TB harddrive, LOL! I was able to recover a lot of it, but this left me with a single folder with all the recovered files... Thats a LOT of work looking through and sorting everything in separate folders :S
@@sharktenko267 Yeah, i know there is some boot/startup file that can get either erased or edited on one of the disks, when you install another one. Seem to remember it being caused by some limitations regarding only being able to set one drive as your "primary" boot drive, or something like that. I managed to mess this up some years ago, but luckily a friend is good with computers, and managed to fix it. I did not have any such issues when i recently installed Windows on a new SSD though, and this time i disconnected all other drives to make sure i did not reformat the wrong one...
I believe you can still choose grub as the default bootloader but change the settings so that windows is the default highlighted option. You can also change the countdown timer to something short so that it doesn't unnecessarily add too much to the overall boot time.
recommended multiboot menu editor : Grub-customizer， it's very easy to edit grub. i dualboot win10 and debian 10, but installed on 2 disk drive, not installed on 1disk 2 partition.
Good one, nice and easy. This should get some people to try out the speed and sense of safety Linux has to offer, while not being too far from windows if they need it.
Nice, separation of concerns makes things much simpler. I just switched from the partition method. It’s nice not having to worry that an update will break my setup and having to use gparted to decipher what partition is what. The only thing I miss is grub recognizing windows as using hot keys to access UEFI to switch OSs doesn’t feel quite streamlined enough for my tastes.
You should show how to run a VM that is connected to the windows partition so you can have full windows and still do something quick while it’s virtualized
I used to run dual PC (4960x 650-950W water-cooled beast & 6600k stock 50W productivity silent workstation) with 2 monitors via dual-link DVI and HDMI KVMs. It was the best experience so far. This setup was built initially to conserve power consumption as socket 2011 system pulled 220W at idle... But it proved to be so much more, just because I could switch between systems instantly having separated work flows using sleep mode and synchronizing common files and configs with Syncthing. Now, I merged both systems into 10600k build that has 1.4x performance of 4960x with 60W idle consumption, but I already miss separate systems and being able to switch between work and gaming and not having stuff running in the background and RAM. I am planning to play with KVMs to run high performance and low power GPUs simultaneously in the future. 1050Ti KalmX for now.
This is what I wanted to confirm. Thank you I use windows GPU drives for AI simulations and also use Fedora for other developments. This is important for me.
2:57 I recommend Ventoy, as it allows you to have several iso files on the same pendrive. You don't need "X" amount of pendrives for "X" OSs, because with Ventoy, all "X" can fit on 1 pendrive -- assuming the pendrive has enough space.
Surely separate disks have always been the preferred option? I always considered re-partitioning a windows install as a compromise if you only had one drive.
@@handerly7992 if you attempt to install Ubuntu it will give you the option to install alongside windows which creates another partition on the same drive. Only 1 drive needed. Although I do still prefer installing it on its own dedicated drive. If you only ever use it occasionally it may be worth just running a live environment if you don't care about persistence.
@@Kin2InuYasha it's so much simpler to just have it's own hard drive and provides allot of advantages such as if one hard drive blows you have a back up As well if you need to format ubuntu for some reason you wont format windows
I had two separate PCs, but I wanted to run Win10 and Linux Mint 20 on one PC. It always loaded Mint when both drives were connected, and it was a pain to disconnect the Linux drive when I wanted to run Windows. after watching your tutorial, I can choose what to run using F8. Works like a breeze. Many thanks from Melbourne Australia. I also subscribed so that I can get more goods tips.
You should update this tutorial as Linux has changed a good bit and for me following this tutorial exactly my computer failed to boot into Linux as the nvidia drivers didn’t auto install. Maybe it’s my pc but this is my 3rd time trying to configure dual boot correctly as my last two times my os broke after a few days and some updates. I had to go into advanced Linux options and click the second option and then continue to boot idk why but that always works when I have that issue.
it seems like boot loader for both OS seems to at 960 Pro SSD if you look at 8:25. So the two SSD/OS is not completely decoupled. Maybe use the smth else option to locate the boot loader to secondary ssd as well?
Personally, I use reFind with my Windows/Alpine Linux dual boot. No messing with boot keys/boot loaders, and I can also boot from external devices with it (for example, I have a Ventoy drive with VHDX/VDI/ISO files on it that I can boot directly on 'bare metal' as needed).
Hey man thanks for that. I'll admit I was sweating bullets but everything went fine in the end and I now have the option to boot from both OS. I had Ubuntu VM on my Windows as I am learning to program on C++ but that is really, really slow on my computer. There is simply no comparison between the two. Thanks again!
I keep coming back to this video to help get me through different parts of this process, each time I do an install. Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful.
I have a recently purchased Core i9-13900KF machine that is used exclusively as a Windows based Blender rendering machine. I installed Ubuntu as Dual boot in it. Amazingly, the performance increase for Blender in Ubuntu is 20%. Thats really good performance gain from just using different OS! If you run processor intensive apps like Blender that could run on Linux based OS like Ubuntu, definitely worth a serious consideration. The time savings is unquestionable. Just that drivers for Linux like new gen AC600/1300 Wi-fi is a bummer to locate , compile & install. But if you have Lan cable, you can ignore wifi.
I have decided that after watching a number of channels now to remove the win disk, setup the Linux disk and have complete separation of the operating systems. Just use the computer boot menu to get where you are going. I see zero issues with that method. They will still see each other but neither will have scripts for the other.
Hello, You installed last Ubuntu...? Because choose OS screen is Black...? Of Ubuntu If installed first Ubuntu and after install Windows 10, the choose OS to boot screen should be the blue of Windows 10 screen...?
My keyboard wouldn't work on boot or on the grub menu after a few reboots. Fast boot on my MSI motherboard was responsible for the keyboard not working. Disable fast boot within your bios people. I couldn't even use the "delete" key to get into the bios after my keyboard went. Had to use this command in the terminal to get back into bios: systemctl reboot --firmware-setup I would recommend disabling fastboot before starting this tutorial. Thank you for your work sir!
I'm pretty well set on using a 1TB M.2 for both boot partitions. I currently have Windows 10 on a 256 GB SATA SSD. I only have one M.2 slot and that will be the fastest and largest by far.
Not a dual boot but I just finished installing Arch on my old MBP. Ran into a problem with WiFi but installing the boradcom-wl-dkms package and rebooting got me up and running just fine!
Very good video and presenter.Comes across as a very nice guy, without being a waffling big head.Very clear and easy to follow instructions.Linux bare metal rocks..A video of how to install Linux dual boot on the same hard drive by Techno Tim would help thousands worldwide.Especially those people with computers featuring secure boot and Nvidia cards which can be tricky with Linux .I have been using exclusively Linux Mint, Mate desktop for 12 years. Well done Techno Tim, you have won an extra subscriber.
Great video! I use to do it this way, but now have opted to now run Mint bare-metal on a NUC 10 FNK1, then use a 2 port dual monitor KVM to switch between the 2 systems on the fly
In my computer, Windows 11 Pro is pre-installled in SSD as Disk 1 and I installed a new SSD as Disk 0. And I installed Ubuntu 20.04 by following your video. But after the installation, I selected restart and then my computer booted Windows. I had to switch Ubuntu to be booted as #1 in UEFI setup and then grub works well. Why did your computer boot and grub worked (07:08) after restarting right after the installation ?
It should work, the thing to worry about is that Windows might overwrite the EFI-boot partition on Linux and install its own. The problem with that is you no longer can boot into Linux. To recover from that problem is to boot Linux from the installation USB again and mount all your partitions into /mnt, chroot into it and reinstall grub to the EFI disks. It is a pain and something you will need a guide for. Installing Windows first and then Linux usually result in a Grub boot menu where you can choose Windows or Linux. This because Windows does not expect anything else on the machine where as Linux always lived under dualbooting so the distributions usually looks for Windows up on installation. If you have Linux and then install Windows, I would recommend that you unplug the Linux disk physically (either remove the SATA or power connector). That way you Linux disk does not work during the Windows installation and Windows will not tamper with the boot loader (it will install its own on its own partition on its own drive).
My Manjaro Linux drive and my Windows drive are fighting over control of the UEFI it seems... Each time I swap, I have to refresh the date and time because the other adjusted it to be right relative to the OS's offset. And WiFi won't work on my Linux boot, and I don't have easy access to an ethernet port for my machine... Pretty unfortunate because the wifi used to work but I don't know what has happened.
Just added a Mint partition for internet access on my old school retro gaming PC (WinXP and Win7) - I'll drop a video showcasing it in the next few weeks
I was struggling for a while with other tutorials getting on one OS or the other. I was able to do dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu Studio 23 the first time. 😊 Thanks ❤.
Interesting option to dual boot separate drives. I have an old HP Pavilion dv9500 laptop. I swapped the AMD Turion 64 X2 1.9Ghz T-58 for a 2.4Ghz T-68 processor, upped the 1GB DDR ram to 8GB, updated the WiFi card and added bluetooth, even a 2.5GBaseT adaptor through a powered USB 3.0 54mm ExpressCard. The laptop will run the two SATA-II HDD bays in RAID 0 or 1, but I've been unable to boot from the second bay... I have Windows 10 running on one drive and Vista Ultimate 64-bit on another drive... and a 32-bit version of Vista on an uninstalled drive. Being locked to a Legacy Bios, I've hesitated to mess with dual booting because I can't get the BIOS to register any drive as bootable in Bay 2, even though it works fine in Bay 1. Thanks for the video... I'll see if I can get Unbuntu to recognize from Bay 2. If so, I'll set up my 3 windows versions to go through the windows boot loader on one drive, and Unbuntu on the second....
Great Video. I am trying to figure out how to create a screen with the boot option so you can click on which one you want? Have you made a video on doing that? Thanks for the GREAT content!
I have a similar setup but different way I work. After transitioning everything to Arch Linux , I found two things never working in Linux are UEFI and Zoom. Partitioning with GPT and EFI on Linux didn't help. My MB is 9 years old. UEFI works fine with Windows though. With Zoom I never able to work my onboard microphone working. So when I zoom whatever playing on my PC can't broadcast. This works on Windows Perfectly. On Linux I can record anything playing using SimpleScreenRecorder but not zoom. There are certain things I learnt to live with by compromising. Then When I use zoom or bigger than 2GB HD I connect to Windows . I don't keep both SSD powered at a same time. I just connect/disconnect based on what I need .
I installed the MX 21 on a 128Gb SSD, and my home partition (250GB) is on a 1Tb HDD where Windows is (the HDD is divided into 3 parts, 500Gb for Windows, 250Gb for what I will store and 250Gb for Linux home). So when I change Windows I only format C, when I change Linux then I format the SSD. Everything works flawlessly.
in this case, i changed to linux one week ago, but i am having so much trouble having some stuff to work, and i know nothing and i cant find some things on google, so i just want to have dual so when i have things i dont know on linux
I recently set mine up like this. 2tb NVMe in a external enclosure ran through usb c. Took windows NVMe internal out put in the new one and installed via usb iso image on boot up.
I followed this guide. And thanks for the "push" to do something. I wanted to get Ubuntu running in parallel, because I was getting sick and tired of WSL's GUI support crapping out all the time and the sharing of CPU resources seems janky and gets slow way too often (and I couldn't figure out why it was happening. Anyone else have issues with WSL?). However, Ubuntu feels....well....how can I describe it.....immature? For instance, I had to go search the depths of the Internet for a driver for my wlan adapter. I got it working, much to my surprise, but now I'm annoyed by my computer fans. In Windows, I have MSI's Dragon Center, but of course, it doesn't have a Linux version and it seems fan control isn't a widely spread need. At any rate, I'm going to stick with it and continue setting up my development environment in Ubuntu, just to see if I can be a bit more productive. Oh, and I pronounce it ooo BOON too, as it should be pronounced.
I'm I the only one who is having issue with this, when I select Etcher it says it has selected would not let me change and does not go to next step which is "flash the usp driver" I download the Etcher for windows. Please let me know what I'm missing
1 safe way is to disconnect all other hard drives when installing and connect them all back once done. just to avoid messing up the wrong one. i installed debian 12 kde and windows this way on 2 seperate ssd.
So I clicked the Erase Disk & Install Ubuntu option that was suggested at 6:15, and It skipped the option to select any of my drives. It went straight to choosing my time zones, and I couldn’t go back. What did I do wrong here? For reference, 1. I was installing Ubuntu 18.04 2. On an Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 laptop 3. I was using an internal drive (Windows 10 drive) and an external SSD plugged in via USB C. I also made the mistake of turning off my computer while installing Ubuntu via this method in the hopes that I could stop the deletion of Windows 10, and I was wrong. Any pointers to fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Techno Tim & Community.
I got a 2013 Hp Envy and it just seems to generate too much heat so I was looking for a light weight OS to install but I just wanted to keep windows 10 incase.
I have a laptop with an existing 1tb ssd that has windows 10. I want to install ubuntu. I also have an empty ssd slot. I see that even though your video uses a desktop, you say it is the same process for laptops. Should I then go ahead and install a new ssd card and proceed to install ubuntu on that in my laptop?? Thank you, and loved your video!
I had installed Ubuntu and was restarting my system and took out my flash drive... But now I'm not getting the normal grub menu, instead I'm getting minimal-BASH like line editing error what do I do 😥
Hi I'm installing Ubuntu onto my Asus rog ,have to drives goining to try to re allocate space on my one tryabit dive to use with Linux,I alsohave a win.surface pro x i wanted to use for Linux but it's just not working out it's like they have it locked tight can't get Linux to boot completely
I had one issue. I installed Ubuntu 22.04, but never got the option to erase and install on the new drive. Through I selected the new drive, but ended up with a Linux partition on my Windows drive together with the new drive. Recommendations?
Hello, thanks for this video, Crystal clear. but have 1 question, I planning to install ubuntu on a Laptop with just one 512GB SD. Can I create a partition there instead use external HDD? Should work right? Thank you!
@@tails_the_god Again me. heres the thing even if I made partition the SSD, and created "NTFS as OS X LINUX, the "Balena" targeting both at the same time, the partition C and X. so there's another software beside Balena for make this? Thanks!
I have 2 SSDs on my laptop, I do use the second drive to store games and files, but can I partition that second drive (not the main OS C: drive) and install Ubuntu there? Will it cause any conflict?
No , its work ,i have ssd (windows) disk C , and HDD ( to store my data) disk D I make partition 150gb from the hdd and install linux there , when ever I want to format the C drive or D drive its not effecting the other OS , its work fine just like this video
When you install ubuntu on a laptop, how would we know that it will discover and configure bluetooth and wifi adapters for ubuntu? The other option would be to use external adapters, which is clunky pieces of USB hardware, attached to your laptop
Hi, I just installed Ubunto on a second SSD, however when I boot it up it will freeze after a minute and then my computer will continuously restart. Would you know if I did something wrong?
Can I use a usb drive 3.2 (128gb) for installing Ubuntu instead of the ssd/hdd? I just need to do simple tasks for college, and I already have two USB pendrives. So, can I do it??
Having to hit F8 or f10 to or the bios in order to get to the drive boot selector is a bit of an annoyance. Doesn't linux has a setup that automatically brings up a OS boot screen?
Well with this set of instructions. My desktop is getting another M2 drive for Ubuntu instead of Virtualizing it. But I will continue to virtualize it on my Laptop since I can not really "upgrade" or add to my laptop. This was so simple to follow and I can not wait to spend more money!
For me this works at first....but after using linux for sometimes....windows doesn't boots up....windows shows "system thread exception not handled" i have tried everything but nothing worked for me....Any suggestions would be pretty helpful
After booting USB drive when I am doing first restart nothing is showing for Ubuntu setup although I am pressing the boot menu key..please help what to do it's very urgent
I was on dual boot for last 1 year, but recently my system started showing probems. Win 10 blue screen crash. Service center upgarded my bios and asked never to dual boot. Any comments ??
After completing installation and restarting. My pc just shows a black screen with a blinking white bar. What could be the problem? (I am also using a nvidia graphics card). Any suggestions would help, thanks
Make sure you know the Recovery Key for Bitlocker on your Windows drive. But wait you say, I never turned Bitlocker on! Ships on as default for many and all Windows 11 installs and once you mess with the Secure Boot it won't be happy...
I have UEFI with secure boot. I'm booting from Ubuntu USB and I can't install it. Do I have to switch off secure boot? What happens when I do it? Will my Windows 10 still be able to boot?
I have two drives on my laptop C drive i use m.2 is store the window file system and D drive i use HDD so now i want to install ubuntu in my D drive how can i do
Planning on buying a new computer with windows for gaming but my preferred os is arch so I'll be dual booting. Just wanted to see another distribution. Good video
What do you think about making a dual booth using Easy BCD, is that better? To avoid to get into the bios each time. Thanks in advance for any answer.👍
Do you pronounce it "ooo BOON too" OR "ooo BUN too" ?
I mean, it's gotta be "YOU bun too". 😛
ooo BOON ut
Lol the second one (?) now u got me thinking 🤔
I've heard other youtubers say oom-bun-too. Idk. Currently I prefer to call it pop OS. 😜
oobunto
as you need to open the case to add the new drive, i suggest to unplug the windows one during install, so no need to cross fingers after :)
Whenever I install an operating system I disconnect all other drives in that PC. This takes out all of the guesswork. One drive - one choice. Keep it simple.
Great advice!!! Although unless you are different from me, i suggest unplugging all the other drives. Last time i re-installed Windows, i accidentally reformatted a 3TB harddrive, LOL! I was able to recover a lot of it, but this left me with a single folder with all the recovered files... Thats a LOT of work looking through and sorting everything in separate folders :S
Every time I did that either one of the os's got borked
@@sharktenko267 then you're doing it wrong...
@@sharktenko267 Yeah, i know there is some boot/startup file that can get either erased or edited on one of the disks, when you install another one. Seem to remember it being caused by some limitations regarding only being able to set one drive as your "primary" boot drive, or something like that. I managed to mess this up some years ago, but luckily a friend is good with computers, and managed to fix it. I did not have any such issues when i recently installed Windows on a new SSD though, and this time i disconnected all other drives to make sure i did not reformat the wrong one...
I believe you can still choose grub as the default bootloader but change the settings so that windows is the default highlighted option. You can also change the countdown timer to something short so that it doesn't unnecessarily add too much to the overall boot time.
recommended multiboot menu editor : Grub-customizer，
it's very easy to edit grub.
i dualboot win10 and debian 10,
but installed on 2 disk drive,
not installed on 1disk 2 partition.
I want to install kali in different ssd which image should I get the live image or installer img ?
does it automatically come up without having to hit F8 or F10?
@@human7253 this is what I need to do. Not partition cuz I cant
The type of installation I was looking for, extremely happy with this!
Good one, nice and easy. This should get some people to try out the speed and sense of safety Linux has to offer, while not being too far from windows if they need it.
actually love your camera. Looks so clean
My tip is to use Grub to boot either Ubuntu or Windows. Some limitations may apply
Nice, separation of concerns makes things much simpler. I just switched from the partition method. It’s nice not having to worry that an update will break my setup and having to use gparted to decipher what partition is what. The only thing I miss is grub recognizing windows as using hot keys to access UEFI to switch OSs doesn’t feel quite streamlined enough for my tastes.
How's it going, any problems since? Is this still your current setup?
You should show how to run a VM that is connected to the windows partition so you can have full windows and still do something quick while it’s virtualized
I used to run dual PC (4960x 650-950W water-cooled beast & 6600k stock 50W productivity silent workstation) with 2 monitors via dual-link DVI and HDMI KVMs. It was the best experience so far.
This setup was built initially to conserve power consumption as socket 2011 system pulled 220W at idle...
But it proved to be so much more, just because I could switch between systems instantly having separated work flows using sleep mode and synchronizing common files and configs with Syncthing.
Now, I merged both systems into 10600k build that has 1.4x performance of 4960x with 60W idle consumption, but I already miss separate systems and being able to switch between work and gaming and not having stuff running in the background and RAM.
I am planning to play with KVMs to run high performance and low power GPUs simultaneously in the future. 1050Ti KalmX for now.
This is what I wanted to confirm. Thank you
I use windows GPU drives for AI simulations and also use Fedora for other developments. This is important for me.
2:57 I recommend Ventoy, as it allows you to have several iso files on the same pendrive. You don't need "X" amount of pendrives for "X" OSs, because with Ventoy, all "X" can fit on 1 pendrive -- assuming the pendrive has enough space.
Surely separate disks have always been the preferred option?
I always considered re-partitioning a windows install as a compromise if you only had one drive.
You can do that but that method is known to cause problems
@@acanthoscurriageniculata7141 what problems lol, I dualboot win10 and Ubuntu 21.04 and everything works as normal as my life
@@robloxboxertblocked9636 can u link me a link or explain me how to do it i only have 1 drive that is 1tb and i want to use it for both os
@@handerly7992 if you attempt to install Ubuntu it will give you the option to install alongside windows which creates another partition on the same drive. Only 1 drive needed. Although I do still prefer installing it on its own dedicated drive. If you only ever use it occasionally it may be worth just running a live environment if you don't care about persistence.
@@Kin2InuYasha it's so much simpler to just have it's own hard drive and provides allot of advantages such as if one hard drive blows you have a back up
As well if you need to format ubuntu for some reason you wont format windows
I had two separate PCs, but I wanted to run Win10 and Linux Mint 20 on one PC. It always loaded Mint when both drives were connected, and it was a pain to disconnect the Linux drive when I wanted to run Windows. after watching your tutorial, I can choose what to run using F8. Works like a breeze. Many thanks from Melbourne Australia. I also subscribed so that I can get more goods tips.
Part of me was hoping somehow a Docker container or Rancher would be involved. Love the UEFI tip though :)
Soon!
This guy deserves more than 97902 views. His way of delivering content is pretty neat and realistic.
Thank you!
Hi I'm from 5 months in the future, and boy do I have good news for you
You should update this tutorial as Linux has changed a good bit and for me following this tutorial exactly my computer failed to boot into Linux as the nvidia drivers didn’t auto install. Maybe it’s my pc but this is my 3rd time trying to configure dual boot correctly as my last two times my os broke after a few days and some updates. I had to go into advanced Linux options and click the second option and then continue to boot idk why but that always works when I have that issue.
good stuff!
I admire your light and background setup!
Thank you! You can control it during my live stream :)
I install windows on a removable ssd via hyper-v and boot it directly from the UEFI boot menu when required. Best method I've ever found.
Thanks for the info!
My pleasure.
it seems like boot loader for both OS seems to at 960 Pro SSD if you look at 8:25.
So the two SSD/OS is not completely decoupled.
Maybe use the smth else option to locate the boot loader to secondary ssd as well?
Personally, I use reFind with my Windows/Alpine Linux dual boot. No messing with boot keys/boot loaders, and I can also boot from external devices with it (for example, I have a Ventoy drive with VHDX/VDI/ISO files on it that I can boot directly on 'bare metal' as needed).
Hey man thanks for that. I'll admit I was sweating bullets but everything went fine in the end and I now have the option to boot from both OS. I had Ubuntu VM on my Windows as I am learning to program on C++ but that is really, really slow on my computer. There is simply no comparison between the two. Thanks again!
If i have a 3rd drive can i transfer files between operating systems?
I keep coming back to this video to help get me through different parts of this process, each time I do an install. Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful.
Thank you!
I have a recently purchased Core i9-13900KF machine that is used exclusively as a Windows based Blender rendering machine. I installed Ubuntu as Dual boot in it. Amazingly, the performance increase for Blender in Ubuntu is 20%. Thats really good performance gain from just using different OS!
If you run processor intensive apps like Blender that could run on Linux based OS like Ubuntu, definitely worth a serious consideration. The time savings is unquestionable. Just that drivers for Linux like new gen AC600/1300 Wi-fi is a bummer to locate , compile & install. But if you have Lan cable, you can ignore wifi.
I have decided that after watching a number of channels now to remove the win disk, setup the Linux disk and have complete separation of the operating systems. Just use the computer boot menu to get where you are going. I see zero issues with that method. They will still see each other but neither will have scripts for the other.
What should i download betcween Etcher for windows "installer" or "portable" pls ?
Hello,
You installed last Ubuntu...? Because choose OS screen is Black...? Of Ubuntu
If installed first Ubuntu and after install Windows 10, the choose OS to boot screen should be the blue of Windows 10 screen...?
My keyboard wouldn't work on boot or on the grub menu after a few reboots. Fast boot on my MSI motherboard was responsible for the keyboard not working. Disable fast boot within your bios people. I couldn't even use the "delete" key to get into the bios after my keyboard went. Had to use this command in the terminal to get back into bios: systemctl reboot --firmware-setup I would recommend disabling fastboot before starting this tutorial. Thank you for your work sir!
I'm pretty well set on using a 1TB M.2 for both boot partitions. I currently have Windows 10 on a 256 GB SATA SSD. I only have one M.2 slot and that will be the fastest and largest by far.
Excellent realtime installation!!
Not a dual boot but I just finished installing Arch on my old MBP. Ran into a problem with WiFi but installing the boradcom-wl-dkms package and rebooting got me up and running just fine!
Now I can breath new life in an old machine that doesn't get security updates anymore!
Very good video and presenter.Comes across as a very nice guy, without being a waffling big head.Very clear and easy to follow instructions.Linux bare metal rocks..A video of how to install Linux dual boot on the same hard drive by Techno Tim would help thousands worldwide.Especially those people with computers featuring secure boot and Nvidia cards which can be tricky with Linux .I have been using exclusively Linux Mint, Mate desktop for 12 years. Well done Techno Tim, you have won an extra subscriber.
Great video! I use to do it this way, but now have opted to now run Mint bare-metal on a NUC 10 FNK1, then use a 2 port dual monitor KVM to switch between the 2 systems on the fly
In my computer, Windows 11 Pro is pre-installled in SSD as Disk 1 and I installed a new SSD as Disk 0. And I installed Ubuntu 20.04 by following your video. But after the installation, I selected restart and then my computer booted Windows. I had to switch Ubuntu to be booted as #1 in UEFI setup and then grub works well. Why did your computer boot and grub worked (07:08) after restarting right after the installation ?
5:02 i think there is audio mistake where there is audio source from both cameras
Thank you for an excellent tutorial! I was able to successfully load Ubuntu onto my Windows server using your instructions.
So I can do this in reverse, and install Windows on another drive and have no problems?
It should work, the thing to worry about is that Windows might overwrite the EFI-boot partition on Linux and install its own. The problem with that is you no longer can boot into Linux. To recover from that problem is to boot Linux from the installation USB again and mount all your partitions into /mnt, chroot into it and reinstall grub to the EFI disks. It is a pain and something you will need a guide for. Installing Windows first and then Linux usually result in a Grub boot menu where you can choose Windows or Linux. This because Windows does not expect anything else on the machine where as Linux always lived under dualbooting so the distributions usually looks for Windows up on installation. If you have Linux and then install Windows, I would recommend that you unplug the Linux disk physically (either remove the SATA or power connector). That way you Linux disk does not work during the Windows installation and Windows will not tamper with the boot loader (it will install its own on its own partition on its own drive).
Thanks so much for this, Tim. Also, I am glad you pointed out that install option, it's really easy to make that install alongside Windows mistake
Thanks! It for sure is easy to clobber the wrong drive!
My Manjaro Linux drive and my Windows drive are fighting over control of the UEFI it seems... Each time I swap, I have to refresh the date and time because the other adjusted it to be right relative to the OS's offset. And WiFi won't work on my Linux boot, and I don't have easy access to an ethernet port for my machine... Pretty unfortunate because the wifi used to work but I don't know what has happened.
Just added a Mint partition for internet access on my old school retro gaming PC (WinXP and Win7) - I'll drop a video showcasing it in the next few weeks
I was struggling for a while with other tutorials getting on one OS or the other. I was able to do dual boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu Studio 23 the first time. 😊 Thanks ❤.
Thanks! Nice tutoriral. Had no problems following!
Interesting option to dual boot separate drives.
I have an old HP Pavilion dv9500 laptop. I swapped the AMD Turion 64 X2 1.9Ghz T-58 for a 2.4Ghz T-68 processor, upped the 1GB DDR ram to 8GB, updated the WiFi card and added bluetooth, even a 2.5GBaseT adaptor through a powered USB 3.0 54mm ExpressCard.
The laptop will run the two SATA-II HDD bays in RAID 0 or 1, but I've been unable to boot from the second bay... I have Windows 10 running on one drive and Vista Ultimate 64-bit on another drive... and a 32-bit version of Vista on an uninstalled drive.
Being locked to a Legacy Bios, I've hesitated to mess with dual booting because I can't get the BIOS to register any drive as bootable in Bay 2, even though it works fine in Bay 1. Thanks for the video... I'll see if I can get Unbuntu to recognize from Bay 2. If so, I'll set up my 3 windows versions to go through the windows boot loader on one drive, and Unbuntu on the second....
Great Video. I am trying to figure out how to create a screen with the boot option so you can click on which one you want? Have you made a video on doing that? Thanks for the GREAT content!
What do i do if im doing this the other way around like linux then windows
Very entertaining and informative. Good job.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have a similar setup but different way I work. After transitioning everything to Arch Linux , I found two things never working in Linux are UEFI and Zoom. Partitioning with GPT and EFI on Linux didn't help. My MB is 9 years old. UEFI works fine with Windows though. With Zoom I never able to work my onboard microphone working. So when I zoom whatever playing on my PC can't broadcast. This works on Windows Perfectly. On Linux I can record anything playing using SimpleScreenRecorder but not zoom. There are certain things I learnt to live with by compromising. Then When I use zoom or bigger than 2GB HD I connect to Windows . I don't keep both SSD powered at a same time. I just connect/disconnect based on what I need .
Hard drive switches using separate hard drives are the easiest for me. Press button for os you want to use before power up.
I installed the MX 21 on a 128Gb SSD, and my home partition (250GB) is on a 1Tb HDD where Windows is (the HDD is divided into 3 parts, 500Gb for Windows, 250Gb for what I will store and 250Gb for Linux home). So when I change Windows I only format C, when I change Linux then I format the SSD. Everything works flawlessly.
7:09 instead of changing boot priority, can i access windows through grub?
I KNEW you would need another drive. Thanks for confirming this for me.
No problem 👍
Thanks for the great tips on Dual Boot Wins and Ubuntu
I used it yesterday, great tutorial!
in this case, i changed to linux one week ago, but i am having so much trouble having some stuff to work, and i know nothing and i cant find some things on google, so i just want to have dual so when i have things i dont know on linux
Hi thank you so much for this video and since now im gonna start learning the world of Linux OS and at the same time English,cheers from Italy
Can I connect the ssd via usb cable instead of sata? What are eventual disadvatages?
Cab the 2nd HDD be just a USB connected one? Thanks.
I recently set mine up like this. 2tb NVMe in a external enclosure ran through usb c. Took windows NVMe internal out put in the new one and installed via usb iso image on boot up.
After installing Ubuntu and restarting, my PC boots directly to windows, no grub. what have I missed?
I followed this guide. And thanks for the "push" to do something. I wanted to get Ubuntu running in parallel, because I was getting sick and tired of WSL's GUI support crapping out all the time and the sharing of CPU resources seems janky and gets slow way too often (and I couldn't figure out why it was happening. Anyone else have issues with WSL?). However, Ubuntu feels....well....how can I describe it.....immature? For instance, I had to go search the depths of the Internet for a driver for my wlan adapter. I got it working, much to my surprise, but now I'm annoyed by my computer fans. In Windows, I have MSI's Dragon Center, but of course, it doesn't have a Linux version and it seems fan control isn't a widely spread need. At any rate, I'm going to stick with it and continue setting up my development environment in Ubuntu, just to see if I can be a bit more productive. Oh, and I pronounce it ooo BOON too, as it should be pronounced.
You can try Kali Linux in wsl with kex, which has good gui support
I'm I the only one who is having issue with this, when I select Etcher it says it has selected would not let me change and does not go to next step which is "flash the usp driver" I download the Etcher for windows. Please let me know what I'm missing
1 safe way is to disconnect all other hard drives when installing and connect them all back once done. just to avoid messing up the wrong one. i installed debian 12 kde and windows this way on 2 seperate ssd.
True, but becomes a pita if you have an NVMe drive installed under a heatsink blocked by your 3-slot GPU.
So I clicked the Erase Disk & Install Ubuntu option that was suggested at 6:15, and It skipped the option to select any of my drives. It went straight to choosing my time zones, and I couldn’t go back.
What did I do wrong here? For reference,
1. I was installing Ubuntu 18.04
2. On an Asus Rog Zephyrus G14 laptop
3. I was using an internal drive (Windows 10 drive) and an external SSD plugged in via USB C.
I also made the mistake of turning off my computer while installing Ubuntu via this method in the hopes that I could stop the deletion of Windows 10, and I was wrong. Any pointers to fixing this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Techno Tim & Community.
reinstall the app, or wait for balenaetcher to update.
Can you provide a back-out tutorial? If you decide to remove it all and get rid of Ubuntu, how should you do that?
Well explained. Very clean video
If you have a fast external SSD such as the Samsung T7... Could you follow these same steps to install ubuntu onto the external SSD? Thanks!
I got a 2013 Hp Envy and it just seems to generate too much heat so I was looking for a light weight OS to install but I just wanted to keep windows 10 incase.
I have a laptop with an existing 1tb ssd that has windows 10. I want to install ubuntu. I also have an empty ssd slot.
I see that even though your video uses a desktop, you say it is the same process for laptops.
Should I then go ahead and install a new ssd card and proceed to install ubuntu on that in my laptop??
Thank you, and loved your video!
Thank you! That’s what I would do!
I had installed Ubuntu and was restarting my system and took out my flash drive... But now I'm not getting the normal grub menu, instead I'm getting minimal-BASH like line editing error what do I do 😥
Thats helpful. Thanks, Tim.
Hi I'm installing Ubuntu onto my Asus rog ,have to drives goining to try to re allocate space on my one tryabit dive to use with Linux,I alsohave a win.surface pro x i wanted to use for Linux but it's just not working out it's like they have it locked tight can't get Linux to boot completely
I had one issue. I installed Ubuntu 22.04, but never got the option to erase and install on the new drive. Through I selected the new drive, but ended up with a Linux partition on my Windows drive together with the new drive. Recommendations?
Very good guide
I actually did this on my laptop, I have Kali linux
Hello, thanks for this video, Crystal clear. but have 1 question, I planning to install ubuntu on a Laptop with just one 512GB SD. Can I create a partition there instead use external HDD? Should work right? Thank you!
Yeah that could work
@@tails_the_god Thank you man.. have nice week!!
@@cheargentino I'm doing that you too and have a happy holiday!
@@tails_the_god Again me. heres the thing even if I made partition the SSD, and created "NTFS as OS X LINUX, the "Balena" targeting both at the same time, the partition C and X. so there's another software beside Balena for make this? Thanks!
I have 2 SSDs on my laptop, I do use the second drive to store games and files, but can I partition that second drive (not the main OS C: drive) and install Ubuntu there? Will it cause any conflict?
No , its work ,i have ssd (windows) disk C , and HDD ( to store my data) disk D
I make partition 150gb from the hdd and install linux there , when ever I want to format the C drive or D drive its not effecting the other OS , its work fine just like this video
can i just create a new partition and still follow your guide instead of getting another drive?
When you install ubuntu on a laptop, how would we know that it will discover and configure bluetooth and wifi adapters for ubuntu? The other option would be to use external adapters, which is clunky pieces of USB hardware, attached to your laptop
You'd have to check in the system information to see if it's installed. It most likely will be and you can toggle it on and off in settings
Hi, I just installed Ubunto on a second SSD, however when I boot it up it will freeze after a minute and then my computer will continuously restart. Would you know if I did something wrong?
Ty I don’t know why but ur the only one who help me install ubuntu
Can I use a usb drive 3.2 (128gb) for installing Ubuntu instead of the ssd/hdd? I just need to do simple tasks for college, and I already have two USB pendrives. So, can I do it??
Having to hit F8 or f10 to or the bios in order to get to the drive boot selector is a bit of an annoyance. Doesn't linux has a setup that automatically brings up a OS boot screen?
Well with this set of instructions. My desktop is getting another M2 drive for Ubuntu instead of Virtualizing it. But I will continue to virtualize it on my Laptop since I can not really "upgrade" or add to my laptop. This was so simple to follow and I can not wait to spend more money!
Run it off an external drive for your laptop? sorry if this does not actually work. new to this. Just a suggestion.
For me this works at first....but after using linux for sometimes....windows doesn't boots up....windows shows "system thread exception not handled" i have tried everything but nothing worked for me....Any suggestions would be pretty helpful
After booting USB drive when I am doing first restart nothing is showing for Ubuntu setup although I am pressing the boot menu key..please help what to do it's very urgent
I was on dual boot for last 1 year, but recently my system started showing probems. Win 10 blue screen crash. Service center upgarded my bios and asked never to dual boot. Any comments ??
After completing installation and restarting. My pc just shows a black screen with a blinking white bar. What could be the problem? (I am also using a nvidia graphics card). Any suggestions would help, thanks
Make sure you know the Recovery Key for Bitlocker on your Windows drive. But wait you say, I never turned Bitlocker on! Ships on as default for many and all Windows 11 installs and once you mess with the Secure Boot it won't be happy...
What do I do when I disconnect my external drive and want to access linux later on?
I have UEFI with secure boot. I'm booting from Ubuntu USB and I can't install it. Do I have to switch off secure boot? What happens when I do it? Will my Windows 10 still be able to boot?
Great video! I will definitely be adopting this method on my next computer!
I assume this method works for Ubuntu Studio as well?
I have two drives on my laptop C drive i use m.2 is store the window file system and D drive i use HDD so now i want to install ubuntu in my D drive how can i do
Planning on buying a new computer with windows for gaming but my preferred os is arch so I'll be dual booting. Just wanted to see another distribution. Good video
Thanks! Should work the same for arch!
@@TechnoTim yeah same principle just lots of typing
So after you image the usb drive can you revert it back so you can use it as normal.
When I boot into Ubuntu the icon to select a wife network is not shown, have you experienced this before?
What about TPM 2.0? Leave enabled or disabled? Will Win 11 install if TPM 2.0 is disabled?
The Ubuntu installer after the Keyboard layout shows error. It says to turn off Intel RST to continue, How can I solve this?
What do you think about making a dual booth using Easy BCD, is that better? To avoid to get into the bios each time. Thanks in advance for any answer.👍
That works too but it then depends on your windows install