The Best Way to Dual Boot Windows and Ubuntu
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- Dual booting Windows and Ubuntu Linux can be a pain however there are many benefits do doing this if you do it right. In this tutorial we'll discuss how to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu on your PC or laptop in a few simple steps so that you can take advantage of all the hardware in your "best" machine with full access to your GPU.
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00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Why dual boot Windows and Linux?
02:08 - What will you need?
02:47 - Preparing you machine for dual boot
04:36 - Installing Ubuntu
07:02 - First boot of Ubuntu
08:12 - Adjusting your boot order in UEFI
09:09 - Does our Windows boot still work?
09:29 - Things to consider when dual booting
10:39 - Stream Highlight - How do you pronounce Ubuntu?
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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
The type of installation I was looking for, extremely happy with this!
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.
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
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.
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...
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
good stuff!
I admire your light and background setup!
Thank you! You can control it during my live stream :)
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
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!
Thank you for an excellent tutorial! I was able to successfully load Ubuntu onto my Windows server using your instructions.
Thanks for the tip and demo, have a great day
actually love your camera. Looks so clean
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
Great video! I will definitely be adopting this method on my next computer!
Thanks! Nice tutoriral. Had no problems following!
Cheers for this Tim, totally sorted me out :)
Thanks a lot. Good stuff. Helped me setting things up for my student son.
Thank you for the excellent guide!
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 ❤.
Thats helpful. Thanks, Tim.
Bro I'm so grateful to you 💫 you're the best
Thank you so much for the video!!
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
Great informative video, can't wait to try this with my Laptop using a 2nd SSD for Linux soon.
great content, made things a lot clear !
Part of me was hoping somehow a Docker container or Rancher would be involved. Love the UEFI tip though :)
Soon!
I used it yesterday, great tutorial!
Good vid! Helped a lot even though I partioned instead of two separate drives.
Worked flawlessly. You inspired me with your Hyrule computer name too. Mine is known as theshire :) thanks for the video!
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!
Awesome video! I'm considering getting a new laptop, but I don't want to risk messing with the warranty. So I'm wondering if this would also work if I installed Ubuntu on an external SSD, which I would then plug into the laptop when I needed Ubuntu?
Hey Man, you really saved my day! Thanks a lot :)
My tip is to use Grub to boot either Ubuntu or Windows. Some limitations may apply
thanks this helped alot!
Your video got me up and running! Thanks man. :)
Nice work!
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.
Definitely the best way to Dual Boot! Thank you :)
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
Thank you for this video. I have 2 NVM (first one already has w10 installed) .To have more 2 boots (Kali and Ubuntu, do you suggest both of them in this 2nd NvM, or separate in one more SSD?)
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
Very entertaining and informative. Good job.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ty I don’t know why but ur the only one who help me install ubuntu
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
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).
Thanks for the great tips on Dual Boot Wins and Ubuntu
Thanks for this, been thinking about making the switch to Linux. Going to pull the trigger this weekend, this helped alot.
Good luck!
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.
Thanks a lot nice illustration
Great video! About to dive in and get it done, although I have one question. You did not create a partition, does ubuntu do this for you ? or are you allocating your entire drive for it ? thanks !
Entire drive, 1 drive for each OS
@@TechnoTim What about file system? Since I'd be using SSDs, I'd rather use F2FS.
A very great explanation on how to deal with a double boot system. Regards.
added clover in my setup. nice tut.
Hi Techno Tim and thanks for the tutorial. I am planning to install Linux alongside Windows and your way looked so easy. Last time i installed Linux is long time ago and it´s name was then " RedHat -Linux, " i think, and the you had make partitions by your self and it was NOT so easy. My question is, does this method with " balenaEtcher " work with any Linux distros? And i noticed that when you checked if it boots to Windows, you where tensed if it would boot. So is there a possibility it will ruin your Windows?
Great video. Is procedure same for linux mint ?
great video thanks so much Tim! one question - my machine goes straight to Windows on startup, it does not load Grub Boot loader. any suggestions? thanks!
You are a great teacher. Thank you
Very good guide
This is great. This is exactly what I wanted. Thanks. Off to try this and hopefully not brick my computer!! :)
Really great video 👍. Separate disks are great method ❤
Maybe this has been asked but I didn't see it. Curious since you had a separate fast SSD why didn't you do a manual install, by which I mean select SWAP partition, / Partition, and all? Does it matter, or is it more difficult when setting up a dual boot? I'm using a older Thinkpad T530 with a separate M.2 drive I installed for Linux. Windows is already installed on the main drive.
Very helpful, thank you!!!
You're welcome!
Very helpful. Thanks
I KNEW you would need another drive. Thanks for confirming this for me.
No problem 👍
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.
you're on track. Thank you!
Thank you!
Another awesome video. What about booting multiple Windows 10 disk and not using Windows bootloader. Or is that really the best way? This may not be possible, but I'm looking for the one bootloader to rule them all regardless of how many drives or partitions and OS's I add.
This is exactly what I was looking for and now I can go to bed. Thank you.
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.
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.
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 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.
Great video, very clear and concise! One question though. Is there a way I can use this external hard drive and usb portably? That is, use the Ubuntu drive on either my desktop and laptop while keeping the files, drivers, software, etc in tact.
Possibly, depends on the disk type and how it's connected.
Great idea to use separate SSD. Two laptops here with dual boot Win11 and Linux Mint. Both working well after many updates including BIOS update.
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?
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.
Easy! Thanks!
oh man is it nice to see a video for this subject with ROG firmware on the mobo
Hi Tim
First of all, thank you very much for your wonderful channel, it is very helpful.
To save your time, I'll get right down to business.
Is it possible having different OS installed on different SSDs on the same computer
run them through virtual machines from the same "carrier" system?
For example, run Windows 10 from Linux and vice versa?
At the same time, retain the ability, if necessary, start the same system through the bootloader
To put it simply, I want to run multiple OSes installed on separate SSDs from Kubuntu from a virtual environment at the same time.
Thanks for the answer, if possible, of course.
Simple means forgetting..& I simply can't forget. But simple gives hope. SSDs make having your dual-boot bare metal OSes great, but like other comments, keeping grub or win boot mgrs make us have choice..Using grub has things needed to know about, like turning things off in the BIOS/motherboard, knowing how to mnt partitions from rescue boot-disks..Great video, & you might consider teaching others how to have the controls that make crossing your fingers less about luck.
So cool! I plan on getting a m.2 ssd and install linux kubuntu on it along side of my windows 10 sata ssd. I have a 2tb mechanical drive as well for my game and other media storage. Look forward to do this. I have a msi b450 motherboard so it has the m.2 slot. Also have a ryzen cpu and amd gpu.
Is possible to choose Windows or Linux in GRUB in separate disc metod? Or allways do it from boot order in UEFI settings
I use this exact same method for about 6 months ago with Manjaro haven't had an issue yet
perfect
thank you man
Can I connect the ssd via usb cable instead of sata? What are eventual disadvatages?
Hi, thanks for the video, very useful. I'm using one Nvme ssd to attempt to dual boot in UEFI BIOS mode but I keep running into "STDIN:Invalid Argument" until it just stalls. Any idea where I could get the help I need?? I'm a complete novice unfortunately
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!
Hi what's the file system do you recommend for storage hard disk? I heard Linux can't write to ntfs drives and windows can't read ext4.
So what file system to use for dual boot?
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
Hi, Tim! Just come across your channel. Thoroughly enjoyed the video, but one question. I would be using my Linux installation as default. As you explain it, if I want to boot into Windows, it is necessary to change the boot order. I get that. But do I have to then change it next time I wish to use Linux?
I would just set your default, but then use your boot hotkeys to override. The hotkeys are a 1 time override.
@@TechnoTim Thank you.
Bro thanks for awesome video. i got ubuntu installed but not getting dual boot menu when booting into window. only thru ubuntu i can boot into window or if i change boot options and keep window on top. window boot menu should be displayed with option to boot into ubuntu too. Any advice bro?
Techno Tim, I have just completed this setup on my new system build. The only problem I have is that to switch from Windows to PopOS (which is what Iam using) I need to get into the Bios. I know in the past when I have done a dual boot using the same hard drive you will get grub and so it's easy to swap. Can you do the same thing and have grub on the Linux Drive?
Hi, nice video, I switched to PopOS a few months ago, but I still need Windows for Adobe, etc. (which is a shame that you can't run it on Linux). With that said, I often have to switch back and forth between the systems, is there a way to automatically open the boot select menu when you start your computer without spamming the boot option key? Or even better, an "overhaul" select menu or something like that.
Cheers!
You can, from GRUB or Windows. It's easier to do from GRUB if you set your Linux disk to boot first.
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.
am i able to partition my 2nd drive, and have a section of that just for ubuntu or does it have to have the whole drive?
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!