Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was spot on! I struggled with the dual booting on other videos, but this worked one go! I will definitally be watching all your videos in this series! I hope you continue to educate people in this brilliant way! 💪
Best tutorial, thank you. For some reason though, I have no audio. Question: can I still access my files from the other partition by creating a shortcut to them on the Pop desktop or should I move them over to the Pop partition? I might just delete windows all together after I get the hang of Pop. Also, can you please make videos on how to install and play games downloaded from torrents on Pop! Op system? All the other videos I found are all over the place. Stay awesome!
Never mind about those first comments. I changed the audio output in the settings and figured I could keep my files exactly where they were until I deleted Windows and removed the partition. Only took a moment to get used to Pop OS, It's actually very neat and I really like it way better than Windows which is so intrusive and controlling! You need to constantly upgrade your computer to a faster one just because they keep adding more surveillance and control to make sure you are paying for everything you're using. It's sickening in my opinion. My computer fans are not going crazy like they would and the computer is operating much smoother, especially my video card. So happy I found your video today, it made switching so much easier. :)
Would I be safe to just remove all my current storage devices (1TB windows boot drive and 2TB secondary ssd with additional windows related programs/data) and then plug in a fresh sata ssd to do a clean install of pop on? Then after pop is installed on that drive, just plug my other storage devices back in to be able to dual boot on startup?
Everything worked great following your steps! I did make the new EFI partition 1gb since POP_OS required me to. My dilemma is that on the initial boot when I got the option to boot Pop_OS or Windows, I set the timeout to 5 seconds and made Windows the default. I was then able to boot into Pop_OS without issue, but later, since that first bootup, when I boot I do not get the option to boot to Pop_OS, it automatically boot to Windows. I press the space bar just like the first time, but no joy. I see the new EFI partition is still on the disk, so nothing happened to that.
Amazing walk through, thanks a lot! In my case I had to create a bigger than 512MiB EFI boot partition because installation complained that 512MiB were not enough. In a MSI laptop I had to chenge the boot order from BIOS, I guess the grub was not installed as showed in this video.
If you have a UEFI BIOS, Pop!_OS will use something called systemd-boot. There are instructions at 13:36 that show you how to get a boot menu for that.
For some reason every time I try to run my installation usb, it just goes through a lot lf console text and always ends with "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system" and then gives me an option to "Attempt interactive netboot from a URL" except it never seems to be able to find the url. I'm really at a loss, but one thing I noticed is that after I flash the usb, Windows Disk Management says the usb only has a single partition of 4 MB. Is this normal? The iso is over 2 GB so that seems small. I downloaded the standard iso from the main page of the official website.
Is the flash drive at least 4 GB in size? Did you use Balena Etcher to create the flash drive? Did you get an error message during the flashing process?
@@DrewHowdenTech I downloaded it a couple nights ago and the file ended in 42. Their guide said you could download the Nvidia drivers later if it was a separate graphics card (which it is in my case). Today I went back to try the Nvidia file but I noticed the files now end in 43, so I was thinking maybe they pushed some bad files on accident? I'm about to try the new Nvidia file. To answer your question, my usb is 32GB. I used Balena Etcher, and even tried to reflash it with Etcher, and later rufus. There was never a flashing error, Etcher's validation said everything was fine. On an unrelated note, thanks for the minor note about mashing the boot menu key, I always tried to hold it but it never worked, but now I mash and it works like a charm.
Okay so I got into Pop OS at least. For some reason my 32GB Sandisk Ultra USB didn't want to work. The early command-line messages seemed to indicate the start-up script couldn't read it. I switched to a 8GB Sandisk Cruzer and that seemed to work. Does the efi partition absolutely have to be first? I'm installing on a 5TB backup drive and I already have some stuff on it. I shrank the existing partition but it's taking FOREVER to move. Not a big deal if I just have to wipe it, but figured I'd ask.
Weird, I have installed various distros of GNU/Linux on the same drive as various versions of Windows and the rule of thumb I came to always use was "install Windows first then GNU/Linux". First time I am seeing a Linux distro is advised to be installed first. This also explains why I was not able to manually partition and configure the unallocated space on the drive using the GParted that POP_OS uses. I had to use a third part partition management software to prep the unallocated space first. Even then the installation kept failing after multiple attempts which was very disappointing. 7:22 Thanks for that, I will have to check to see if it was applicable to me too which then I'd know I missed on that part.
Hi Drew!!! Thanks for your video, I followed all the steps but I can't select Windows Boot Manager, only Pop!_OS and reboot into firmware interface... What am I doing wrong? Thank you!!!
I hope I get some kind of help from this comment section. I deleted my windows partition which is in a different drive from the one I have my Pop OS on. This windows drive had three partitions and all the partitions are gone. Now I have reinstalled windows and my Pop OS which is on another drive in the same machine does not boot. Could someone help with a simple step by step fix? When I boot into pop Os it says “You are in emergency mode, after logging type journalctl -xb bla bla bla. “ Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks! Everything working perfectly except one small problem. On the dual boot menu, it doesn't match up with my screen resolution ( kinda like too close to the left). Any fix for this?
I did everything that was told to me in the video (only thing I did differently was I added a swap partition). I then installed pop OS fine, everything on pop OS seems to work great. The only issue, big issue really, is that I cant go back to windows. I did the thing where I put the windows folder in the efi. But when I restart and mash space bar, it wont show up. And further, if i go into the bios and try to rearrange the order from there and enable secure boot, windows tells me its trying to correct, then says failed to connect and gives me some options. When I say to continue to windows it does the whole correcting things over again and says it could not correct. I cant get into windows. please help !!
Are you asking how to clone this configuration, or how to remove Pop!_OS? If you would like to clone your drive to a bigger drive, I made another video about that. If you would like to remove Pop!_OS from your system, check the playlist linked in the description.
Sorry im a bit confused, im trying to install Pop OS on an SSD i have in my PC its completely empty as i use a different nvme ssd for my windows stuff. but your only showing 1 hard drive.
i think just when it said under clean install "this will wipe your drive and install Pop_OS" i thought it meant my main drive for some reason, just one of those smooth brain moments lol.
Thank you for this video! I was pretty intimidated by the idea of doing a dual boot with windows, but I need windows for certain programs, so I really appreciate your guidance. Unfortunately, my fear may have been justified: I hit a rather serious snag about 12:30 into your video. I got the partitions all put together like you demonstrated. But on restart, the computer would not boot up, couldn't find a boot drive or something (I forget the error now). I'm still not sure if I'll ever be able to get the machine to boot into Windows again. I was eventually somehow able to get it to recognize the USB and tried to do the install over. This time I got an error pretty quickly, which seems to be related to me needing to format the partitions that I had just half-installed POP OS on. So I pressed the Custom install button and told it which partitions to use, and instructed it to format the partitions. Two little checkmarks on the partitions in question. Great. Except the "Erase and Install" button is greyed out now and won't do anything. I've tried all kinds of stuff, including telling it NOT to format the partitions, and it won't turn red. Possibly relevant: you said to make one of the partitions Fat32, I believe, but it tells me that's an inappropriate format. I would be super grateful for any help.
@@DrewHowdenTech The big new one. I have 4 partitions now. One small one is windows system, one big one is windows storage, and then a small (512MB) new partition for Pop boot and a large new partition for Pop Root. I finally got it to format both new partitions and re-install POP OS (I have no idea how, it just worked all of a sudden), and it's doing the same thing. It gets to the reboot stage of the install, and then I get an error tat says "No Operating system found. Press any key to repeat boot sequence." If I press a key, it will just repeat the boot sequence and give me the same error, so it's stuck in a loop of never finding the OS.
update: i've been on the ubuntu forums. The issue still isn't resolved, but I have figured out a few things. The main issue is that I have a Legacy BIOS and it looks like maybe there's no way to install Pop OS on a computer this old? I'm trying to change some things, ie, changing my "boot" partition to a "swap" partition to see if that does anything, but so far I can't figure out how to make the "Erase and Install" button turn red. I have black checkmarks on the appropriate partitions, everything seems to be in order, and it is still greyed out and won't work, leaving me with the option to either mess around with the partitions more or quit the install.
You can do it that way, but then you have to go back and change the order again after you're done (to get your computer to boot from your internal drive by default again).
@@DrewHowdenTech Good. It seems like it might be safer than possibly ruining my 10 year old windows installation. I mainly just wanted a second option for running and up-to-date browser without corrupting the entrenched installation. I don't doubt that your instructions are second to none, but my old brain would very likely miss a critical step or two in the process and have no one to blame but myself.
bro, please help!! I install EaseUS to increase the disk size of pop os but after restarting the pc I can not see the dual boot option, also in bios but there is space allocated seen in windows what should I do download pop os again? please reply 🙏🙏
@@DrewHowdenTech UEFI Here is the description I downloaded EaseUS to increase the disk size of pop os but after creating unallocated space from the windows space and using EaseUS to shift the position of the unallocated space to pop os left side so it can combine and after restarting I can not see dual boot option in starting and in bios but there is still space there for pop os see in windows disk manager, what should I do now
How to change the partition size of sda5? It needs at least 1 gb but mine is only 512 please help. I followed every step and still managed to mess up (Edit): I am now creating 1gb worth of unallocated space, then making it a new partition with fat32, let's see if that works It worked, extraction has begun, please put the disclaimer in the comment section that EFI needs 1GB now
Great tutorial and a timer saver bro I have added the windows entry as you showed and installed os prober and nano'ed the grub file but can't seem to run the update-grub command i think it has been depreciated
Hello thank for sharing video and it was a great tutorial, can you make video how to do triple boot with window, arch Linux and pop-s! and how to recognize with each other all of it in one video or doing serious like parts
Great tutorial, just one thing, now the efi system partition size requirement is 1gb
Okay, thanks for pointing that out.
Wow, I had to log in to youtube during my install to tell you this is an EXCELLENT tutorial video on how to do this. Amazing work here.
Subbed.
Great tutorial! As mentioned already all viewers please keep in mind that minimum boot efi partition is now (2024) 1GB
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This was spot on! I struggled with the dual booting on other videos, but this worked one go! I will definitally be watching all your videos in this series! I hope you continue to educate people in this brilliant way! 💪
pop os is the ABSOLUTE best os ever. never any issues, crashes, bugs, performance drops like with windows.
@@skyguy1988 Gaming good?
Great job! Really helpful with the boot setup as there are many out of date tutorials around.
by far it's the best tutorial great job my dude
Thanks.
this was brilliant and the only tutorial that is simple for dual boot.
Thank you! Your video was the only one that solved my problem with grub, cheers from Brazil!
Great video, brother! You just got a new subscriber!
Thank you! I don't think I've seen such a detailed tutorial on the subject. Good work!
You’re welcome, glad it helped!
Best tutorial, thank you. For some reason though, I have no audio. Question: can I still access my files from the other partition by creating a shortcut to them on the Pop desktop or should I move them over to the Pop partition? I might just delete windows all together after I get the hang of Pop.
Also, can you please make videos on how to install and play games downloaded from torrents on Pop! Op system? All the other videos I found are all over the place.
Stay awesome!
Never mind about those first comments. I changed the audio output in the settings and figured I could keep my files exactly where they were until I deleted Windows and removed the partition. Only took a moment to get used to Pop OS, It's actually very neat and I really like it way better than Windows which is so intrusive and controlling! You need to constantly upgrade your computer to a faster one just because they keep adding more surveillance and control to make sure you are paying for everything you're using. It's sickening in my opinion. My computer fans are not going crazy like they would and the computer is operating much smoother, especially my video card. So happy I found your video today, it made switching so much easier. :)
Worked like a charm!
Thank you very much.
Amazing turorial! Thanks Drew
Would I be safe to just remove all my current storage devices (1TB windows boot drive and 2TB secondary ssd with additional windows related programs/data) and then plug in a fresh sata ssd to do a clean install of pop on? Then after pop is installed on that drive, just plug my other storage devices back in to be able to dual boot on startup?
Sure, that’s a great idea to avoid wiping the wrong drive.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thanks for the fast response man, I really appreciate it 🙏. I’m gonna go give it a try then, should be fun.
It's a great option. it's the easiest option I've seen. Great job!
Thanks.
Everything worked great following your steps! I did make the new EFI partition 1gb since POP_OS required me to. My dilemma is that on the initial boot when I got the option to boot Pop_OS or Windows, I set the timeout to 5 seconds and made Windows the default. I was then able to boot into Pop_OS without issue, but later, since that first bootup, when I boot I do not get the option to boot to Pop_OS, it automatically boot to Windows. I press the space bar just like the first time, but no joy. I see the new EFI partition is still on the disk, so nothing happened to that.
Go to your boot priority order in your BIOS and move Pop!_OS to the top.
Yes! It worked. Thank you so much.
Update : minimum EFI partition size is 1GB and NOT 512mb.
(I feel like this should've been mentioned in a pinned comment)
Amazing walk through, thanks a lot! In my case I had to create a bigger than 512MiB EFI boot partition because installation complained that 512MiB were not enough. In a MSI laptop I had to chenge the boot order from BIOS, I guess the grub was not installed as showed in this video.
If you have a UEFI BIOS, Pop!_OS will use something called systemd-boot. There are instructions at 13:36 that show you how to get a boot menu for that.
On pop osI want to delete grub, please, how quickly?
Sorry, what are you trying to do?
For some reason every time I try to run my installation usb, it just goes through a lot lf console text and always ends with "Unable to find a medium containing a live file system" and then gives me an option to "Attempt interactive netboot from a URL" except it never seems to be able to find the url.
I'm really at a loss, but one thing I noticed is that after I flash the usb, Windows Disk Management says the usb only has a single partition of 4 MB. Is this normal? The iso is over 2 GB so that seems small. I downloaded the standard iso from the main page of the official website.
Is the flash drive at least 4 GB in size? Did you use Balena Etcher to create the flash drive? Did you get an error message during the flashing process?
@@DrewHowdenTech I downloaded it a couple nights ago and the file ended in 42. Their guide said you could download the Nvidia drivers later if it was a separate graphics card (which it is in my case).
Today I went back to try the Nvidia file but I noticed the files now end in 43, so I was thinking maybe they pushed some bad files on accident? I'm about to try the new Nvidia file.
To answer your question, my usb is 32GB. I used Balena Etcher, and even tried to reflash it with Etcher, and later rufus. There was never a flashing error, Etcher's validation said everything was fine. On an unrelated note, thanks for the minor note about mashing the boot menu key, I always tried to hold it but it never worked, but now I mash and it works like a charm.
Okay so I got into Pop OS at least. For some reason my 32GB Sandisk Ultra USB didn't want to work. The early command-line messages seemed to indicate the start-up script couldn't read it. I switched to a 8GB Sandisk Cruzer and that seemed to work.
Does the efi partition absolutely have to be first? I'm installing on a 5TB backup drive and I already have some stuff on it. I shrank the existing partition but it's taking FOREVER to move. Not a big deal if I just have to wipe it, but figured I'd ask.
I was stuck at boot , thanks a lot man 🤝
Weird, I have installed various distros of GNU/Linux on the same drive as various versions of Windows and the rule of thumb I came to always use was "install Windows first then GNU/Linux". First time I am seeing a Linux distro is advised to be installed first. This also explains why I was not able to manually partition and configure the unallocated space on the drive using the GParted that POP_OS uses. I had to use a third part partition management software to prep the unallocated space first. Even then the installation kept failing after multiple attempts which was very disappointing.
7:22 Thanks for that, I will have to check to see if it was applicable to me too which then I'd know I missed on that part.
Great job my dude!
Thank you.
Excellent Tutorial!
Hi Drew!!! Thanks for your video, I followed all the steps but I can't select Windows Boot Manager, only Pop!_OS and reboot into firmware interface... What am I doing wrong? Thank you!!!
Did you copy that “Microsoft” folder from Windows’ EFI System Partition to Pop!_OS’s EFI System Partition as shown in this video?
@@DrewHowdenTech Hi Drew!! Yes, i did like your video... but i have this behavior
i get no popup for a bootmanager, ti just starts the OS.... i can just assign in BIOS to Boot to MS or Pop_OS,
You have to repeatedly press the spacebar as Pop!_OS is starting up.
I hope I get some kind of help from this comment section. I deleted my windows partition which is in a different drive from the one I have my Pop OS on. This windows drive had three partitions and all the partitions are gone. Now I have reinstalled windows and my Pop OS which is on another drive in the same machine does not boot. Could someone help with a simple step by step fix? When I boot into pop Os it says “You are in emergency mode, after logging type journalctl -xb bla bla bla. “ Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Here is a support article from System76 on how to repair the Pop!_OS bootloader:
support.system76.com/articles/bootloader/
Thanks! Everything working perfectly except one small problem. On the dual boot menu, it doesn't match up with my screen resolution ( kinda like too close to the left). Any fix for this?
Not that I know of.
how should i set up the partitions and boot menu stuff if im installing it on a seperate drive
Just do a clean install to the drive you want to install it to.
Couldn't you just use gparted to resize the EFI partition prior to running the installation
Unfortunately no. For some reason, GParted isn’t able to resize the EFI System Partition.
I did everything that was told to me in the video (only thing I did differently was I added a swap partition). I then installed pop OS fine, everything on pop OS seems to work great. The only issue, big issue really, is that I cant go back to windows. I did the thing where I put the windows folder in the efi. But when I restart and mash space bar, it wont show up. And further, if i go into the bios and try to rearrange the order from there and enable secure boot, windows tells me its trying to correct, then says failed to connect and gives me some options. When I say to continue to windows it does the whole correcting things over again and says it could not correct. I cant get into windows. please help !!
Did you copy or move Windows’ EFI folder.
Great tutorial works well on my system, but I like to move it to a bigger ssd drive. How do I uninstall it?
Are you asking how to clone this configuration, or how to remove Pop!_OS?
If you would like to clone your drive to a bigger drive, I made another video about that. If you would like to remove Pop!_OS from your system, check the playlist linked in the description.
Sorry im a bit confused, im trying to install Pop OS on an SSD i have in my PC its completely empty as i use a different nvme ssd for my windows stuff. but your only showing 1 hard drive.
In your case, you would just select the “clean install” option, and then select the drive you want to install Pop!_OS on.
@@DrewHowdenTech Oh thats actually really simple, thank you, not sure why i was so confused by that in hindsight lol.
i think just when it said under clean install "this will wipe your drive and install Pop_OS" i thought it meant my main drive for some reason, just one of those smooth brain moments lol.
Did moving your partition have a risk of error / potential data loss?
Yes! That’s why you should have a backup of your data just in case.
if you have two different drives, do you just out pop os on the free drive and boot it from there if you want to use it
You could do it that way. I made this video with a single-drive setup in mind.
When did you remove the usb that you flashed with the pop os iso file
I didn't end up taking it out, but you can take it out once the installation process is finished.
Thank you for this video! I was pretty intimidated by the idea of doing a dual boot with windows, but I need windows for certain programs, so I really appreciate your guidance.
Unfortunately, my fear may have been justified: I hit a rather serious snag about 12:30 into your video. I got the partitions all put together like you demonstrated. But on restart, the computer would not boot up, couldn't find a boot drive or something (I forget the error now). I'm still not sure if I'll ever be able to get the machine to boot into Windows again. I was eventually somehow able to get it to recognize the USB and tried to do the install over. This time I got an error pretty quickly, which seems to be related to me needing to format the partitions that I had just half-installed POP OS on. So I pressed the Custom install button and told it which partitions to use, and instructed it to format the partitions. Two little checkmarks on the partitions in question. Great. Except the "Erase and Install" button is greyed out now and won't do anything. I've tried all kinds of stuff, including telling it NOT to format the partitions, and it won't turn red.
Possibly relevant: you said to make one of the partitions Fat32, I believe, but it tells me that's an inappropriate format.
I would be super grateful for any help.
What partition did you set as your root partition?
@@DrewHowdenTech The big new one. I have 4 partitions now. One small one is windows system, one big one is windows storage, and then a small (512MB) new partition for Pop boot and a large new partition for Pop Root. I finally got it to format both new partitions and re-install POP OS (I have no idea how, it just worked all of a sudden), and it's doing the same thing. It gets to the reboot stage of the install, and then I get an error tat says "No Operating system found. Press any key to repeat boot sequence." If I press a key, it will just repeat the boot sequence and give me the same error, so it's stuck in a loop of never finding the OS.
update: i've been on the ubuntu forums. The issue still isn't resolved, but I have figured out a few things. The main issue is that I have a Legacy BIOS and it looks like maybe there's no way to install Pop OS on a computer this old? I'm trying to change some things, ie, changing my "boot" partition to a "swap" partition to see if that does anything, but so far I can't figure out how to make the "Erase and Install" button turn red. I have black checkmarks on the appropriate partitions, everything seems to be in order, and it is still greyed out and won't work, leaving me with the option to either mess around with the partitions more or quit the install.
Update: Giving up. Gonna try installing Lubuntu instead.
Since you have a Legacy BIOS, you don’t need to create an EFI System Partition.
Is there any great downside to just switching boot devices in the bios during startup?
You can do it that way, but then you have to go back and change the order again after you're done (to get your computer to boot from your internal drive by default again).
@@DrewHowdenTech Good. It seems like it might be safer than possibly ruining my 10 year old windows installation. I mainly just wanted a second option for running and up-to-date browser without corrupting the entrenched installation. I don't doubt that your instructions are second to none, but my old brain would very likely miss a critical step or two in the process and have no one to blame but myself.
bro, please help!!
I install EaseUS to increase the disk size of pop os but after restarting the pc I can not see the dual boot option, also in bios but there is space allocated seen in windows what should I do
download pop os again? please reply 🙏🙏
Is your BIOS UEFI or legacy?
@@DrewHowdenTech UEFI
Here is the description
I downloaded EaseUS to increase the disk size of pop os but after creating unallocated space from the windows space and using EaseUS to shift the position of the unallocated space to pop os left side so it can combine and after restarting I can not see dual boot option in starting and in bios but there is still space there for pop os see in windows disk manager, what should I do now
Try mashing the space bar on boot.
@@DrewHowdenTech are you saying smash space bar when in bios menu?
Actually I am new can you specify step by step it will be really helpful 🙏
I meant right after the POST screen.
I would have created a swap partition as well as a /recovery partition (A FAT32 partition used by Pop OS to do a recovery install).
How to change the partition size of sda5? It needs at least 1 gb but mine is only 512 please help. I followed every step and still managed to mess up
(Edit): I am now creating 1gb worth of unallocated space, then making it a new partition with fat32, let's see if that works
It worked, extraction has begun, please put the disclaimer in the comment section that EFI needs 1GB now
There's already a pinned comment that states this.
Great tutorial and a timer saver bro
I have added the windows entry as you showed and installed os prober and nano'ed the grub file but can't seem to run the update-grub command i think it has been depreciated
You might have a UEFI BIOS. Try following my instructions for UEFI BIOSES.
Hello thank for sharing video and it was a great tutorial, can you make video how to do triple boot with window, arch Linux and pop-s! and how to recognize with each other all of it in one video or doing serious like parts
Sure, I can do a video on how to run multiple Linux distributions alongside Windows.
@@DrewHowdenTech Thanks bro I will keep waiting
didn't you install linux-swap partition?
I believe Pop!_OS will create a swap file for you if you don’t have a swap partition.
Thanks bro ❤
Thanks, everything works except the space bar thing.. couldn't fix the boot stuff
Try using the ESC key again.
At 13:45 it shows "not mounted" what do I do?
You need to mount the drive by clicking on the button that looks like a play button.
thank a lot
Nice
Hello I'm from Brazil. You could make this tutorial in a text file for better understanding given the language barrier.
Thank you friend.
How are the subtitles?
@@DrewHowdenTech English subtitles only. Thank you anyway.