Remember that this article applies to computers that have Windows 10 already installed on the system. I am asking you to be prepared for the worst case scenario. Have a live or recovery disk of Windows ready: If your boot gets messed up and despite all efforts, you ended with an unbootable system, you can use the Windows disk to reinstall Windows.If you have an extra USB or CD, you can use that to create boot repair disk. Have a boot repair disk: If your boot gets messed up, you can try to repair it with boot repair disk.So my advice is to back up your important files, documents, music, movies etc to an external disk or cloud, whichever suits you. Normally, it’s not a big issue but just in case if you touched wrong partition etc, you may lose data. Back up your data: You are going to touch disk partitions.
And in this article, we’ll see how to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows 10.īefore we proceed to see the procedure to dual boot Linux Mint with Windows, let me give you some optional yet recommended safety instructions: Absolute beginners often find it complicated but this is the best way to use Linux and Windows together in one system. This involves touching the disk partition and sometimes boot order. And when your system powers up, you can choose if you want to use Windows or Linux. Here, you install Linux on a system that already has Windows.
This is usually slow and your changes done to the Linux system are (normally) not saved.
if you see my disk management console, you will find C drive ie system drive allocated with full hard disk space. Step 2: Above command opens Disk management console, you can find your hard disk with allocation of space. Step 1: Go to Run (Win + R) and Type diskmgmt.msc
If your Windows 8 and other partitions occupies full hard disk and does not have enough space for install follow the steps to make free space on hard disk using Windows 8 Disk management. If the machine have enough space to install Linux Mint, you can go directly to install it. There are lot of way to make dual boot of Linux Mint and Windows 8, Here is the simple and easiest way to install.
Graphics card capable of 800×600 resolutionĭownload the ISO image Linux Mint (x86) or Linux Mint (圆4).512 MB RAM (1GB recommended for a comfortable usage).Linux Mint 32-bit works on both 32-bit and 64-bit processors).