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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 ❤.
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!
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
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.
Well, how can we follow your video but by manipulating the Boot Loader so will be no need to interact with accessing the BIOS but by opting out which operating system to choose from: Windows or Linux?!😮
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.
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
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!
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.
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).
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!
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...?
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.
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 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!
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.👍
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!
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!
Can you make a video on how to dual boot windows and batocera? All the videos i have watched have been very complicated and you seem to explain everything in a great way.
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 ?
i think you noticed how windows start behaving after doing this and i feel it all the time and i just want to understand why windows after doing the perfect dual boot solution you notice like for example some time windows start with numlock off at boot sometimes and the boot become slower a little bit. i don't know i just want to know if l’m the only one having this weird felling.
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.
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!
Yeah u were a big help. Got me further than any other video. Finally pushed through and got Ubuntu on my 2nd SSD in my laptop. Thanks man 👏👏👏. Is there anyway to run Ubuntu with RAID enabled? Each time I want to boot it I have to switch to AHCI.
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....
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).
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.
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.
I liked your video. What if I want to install Linux on an external SSD? That is, an SSD or NVme inside a drive case connected via USB 3.1 or USB-C? Also, I will be choosing Linux Mint as it's much better for Windows users and those running Steam games in addition. BTW, I have SecureBoot and TPM 2.0 enabled in BIOS. I appreciate all your help.
Hi Excellent video. Now can you please show how to invoke (from cmd window), then, edit/modify Windows boot loader to give the boot choice for the dual boot , when by default windows drive is the default boot drive (selected in bios).
Thank's, this tutorial was so detailed and helpful! Recently I tried dual booting Linux Mint and it was kinda hard, I watched like 20 tutorial's hoping to setup the os and I did it but I run into some issues and ended up deleting it :( but after this video I'm more confident into dual booting another os and I'm gonna try installing Ubuntu! Thank you so much :D
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
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.
Thanks man, brilliant instruction! Many have suggested to unplug other SSDs before the installation to avoid formatting the wrong drive by accidents. What's your take? Are there any other reasons for unplugging SSDs? Thanks a bunch...
Your instructions are pin point perfect except for the part about choosing the boot option. My computer showed 4 usb options and none worked. You made a very fast transition from that screen to choosing Ubuntu safe graphics. I couldn't tell if there was a restart or not.
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 like this. There was a moment where i had a laptop that i installed both mint and windows on the same drive. Then afterwards i did no longer need linux as my job no longer required it, and i wanted to install just windows, only to find out that GRUB had completely replaced the original bootloader. Of course this was fixable, but i had already done all the things to setup windows, and i dreaded doing it all over again after trying to remove GRUB, so i left it for a while. I don't hate GRUB, it works fine. But the way GRUB worked when i no longer had a linux installation installed, is that the laptop would boot into a terminal, which i had to exit, and then windows would boot. So i had to babysit my laptop in the startup process. I really disliked that. So having two disks that you can dual boot to, depending on the boot device seems like a great solution to me. I will put Windows as standard, and just go to the boot menu, if i want to use linux for a while (Im into web dev, and that works a lot better on linux because docker in windows sucks). I have an older SSD lying around that i will plop into my PC this afternoon, and try out this method. Thanks a bunch!
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
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
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
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...
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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
My tip is to use Grub to boot either Ubuntu or Windows. Some limitations may apply
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!
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.
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 ❤.
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!
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
good stuff!
I admire your light and background setup!
Thank you! You can control it during my live stream :)
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.
Well, how can we follow your video but by manipulating the Boot Loader so will be no need to interact with accessing the BIOS but by opting out which operating system to choose from: Windows or Linux?!😮
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!
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
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!
Thank you for an excellent tutorial! I was able to successfully load Ubuntu onto my Windows server using your instructions.
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.
Thanks! Nice tutoriral. Had no problems following!
Excellent realtime installation!!
5:02 i think there is audio mistake where there is audio source from both cameras
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.
Very good guide
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).
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!
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...?
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
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!
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.
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.
Thanks for the great tips on Dual Boot Wins and Ubuntu
I used it yesterday, great tutorial!
Well explained. Very clean video
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!
Really great video 👍. Separate disks are great method ❤
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
What should i download betcween Etcher for windows "installer" or "portable" pls ?
Thats helpful. Thanks, Tim.
Ty I don’t know why but ur the only one who help me install ubuntu
Very entertaining and informative. Good job.
Glad you enjoyed it!
If i have a 3rd drive can i transfer files between operating systems?
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!
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!
I KNEW you would need another drive. Thanks for confirming this for me.
No problem 👍
Great video! I will definitely be adopting this method on my next computer!
Can you make a video on how to dual boot windows and batocera? All the videos i have watched have been very complicated and you seem to explain everything in a great way.
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!
Worked flawlessly. You inspired me with your Hyrule computer name too. Mine is known as theshire :) thanks for the video!
Thank you for the excellent guide!
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 ?
Great video. Is procedure same for linux mint ?
i think you noticed how windows start behaving after doing this and i feel it all the time and i just want to understand why windows after doing the perfect dual boot solution you notice like for example some time windows start with numlock off at boot sometimes and the boot become slower a little bit.
i don't know i just want to know if l’m the only one having this weird felling.
Thank you so much for the video!!
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
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.
Yeah u were a big help. Got me further than any other video. Finally pushed through and got Ubuntu on my 2nd SSD in my laptop. Thanks man 👏👏👏. Is there anyway to run Ubuntu with RAID enabled? Each time I want to boot it I have to switch to AHCI.
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....
Where is in your setup the Grub bootloader installed? Don't you need to specify that? (congrats with your excellent explanation )
Should be installed on your Ubuntu disk, thank you!
added clover in my setup. nice tut.
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).
Bro I'm so grateful to you 💫 you're the best
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.
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.
This is great. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks. Off to try this and hopefully not brick my computer!! :)
Thank you for the clear and concise instructions. Worked for me. What is the best way to reverse this should I want to drop the Ubuntu install? TIA
I liked your video. What if I want to install Linux on an external SSD? That is, an SSD or NVme inside a drive case connected via USB 3.1 or USB-C? Also, I will be choosing Linux Mint as it's much better for Windows users and those running Steam games in addition. BTW, I have SecureBoot and TPM 2.0 enabled in BIOS. I appreciate all your help.
Hi Excellent video. Now can you please show how to invoke (from cmd window), then, edit/modify Windows boot loader to give the boot choice for the dual boot , when by default windows drive is the default boot drive (selected in bios).
Thanks for this, been thinking about making the switch to Linux. Going to pull the trigger this weekend, this helped alot.
Good luck!
Good vid! Helped a lot even though I partioned instead of two separate drives.
best video I've seen that was very clear.
"babe me and the baby are starving"
"Sorry. I like to keep my concerns... separate"
oh man is it nice to see a video for this subject with ROG firmware on the mobo
Great informative video, can't wait to try this with my Laptop using a 2nd SSD for Linux soon.
Hey Man, you really saved my day! Thanks a lot :)
Thank's, this tutorial was so detailed and helpful! Recently I tried dual booting Linux Mint and it was kinda hard, I watched like 20 tutorial's hoping to setup the os and I did it but I run into some issues and ended up deleting it :( but after this video I'm more confident into dual booting another os and I'm gonna try installing Ubuntu! Thank you so much :D
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
great content, made things a lot clear !
I actually did this on my laptop, I have Kali 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.
This was a great video after watching I'm going to grab an extra NVME drive and separate Ubuntu from Windows 10.
im thinking of doing this too!! haven't seen other videos that show how to do this with motherboards that have dual nvme drives
This is just what I needed since I want to try to play games from Linux instead of Windows. Thank you Tim, you rock!
NP!
Thats a great idea! I'm doing some consolidation of my server storage, will end up with an extra SSD, might pop it in and see how I go games wise.
First time I hear someone wanting Linux for playing games.... It's usually the other way round....
@@newworldforward1842 lots of people *want* to be able to play games on Linux, it's just not always possible.
@@morosis82 Me too!.. And that's why I'm stuck having to use windows for games..
This is exactly what I was looking for and now I can go to bed. Thank you.
Thanks man, brilliant instruction! Many have suggested to unplug other SSDs before the installation to avoid formatting the wrong drive by accidents. What's your take? Are there any other reasons for unplugging SSDs? Thanks a bunch...
just to avoid the mistake.
Thanks for the tip and demo, have a great day
Thanks a lot. Good stuff. Helped me setting things up for my student son.
Your instructions are pin point perfect except for the part about choosing the boot option. My computer showed 4 usb options and none worked. You made a very fast transition from that screen to choosing Ubuntu safe graphics. I couldn't tell if there was a restart or not.
Can you provide a back-out tutorial? If you decide to remove it all and get rid of Ubuntu, how should you do that?
Mind sharing the wallpapers you used on Windows?
Hey thanks! I can't seem to find it but it's one of the ones from Microsoft in the App store. It should be there, something like "lights"
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 like this. There was a moment where i had a laptop that i installed both mint and windows on the same drive. Then afterwards i did no longer need linux as my job no longer required it, and i wanted to install just windows, only to find out that GRUB had completely replaced the original bootloader. Of course this was fixable, but i had already done all the things to setup windows, and i dreaded doing it all over again after trying to remove GRUB, so i left it for a while.
I don't hate GRUB, it works fine. But the way GRUB worked when i no longer had a linux installation installed, is that the laptop would boot into a terminal, which i had to exit, and then windows would boot. So i had to babysit my laptop in the startup process. I really disliked that.
So having two disks that you can dual boot to, depending on the boot device seems like a great solution to me. I will put Windows as standard, and just go to the boot menu, if i want to use linux for a while (Im into web dev, and that works a lot better on linux because docker in windows sucks). I have an older SSD lying around that i will plop into my PC this afternoon, and try out this method. Thanks a bunch!
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