Двойная загрузка Windows 10 и Ubuntu Linux

Многие пользователя не могут смириться с некоторыми ограничениями игр, которые накладывает ОС Linux, несмотря на тот факт, что в последнее время развитию игровой составляющей в Linux уделяется повышенное внимание. Тем не менее, многие пользователи хотят организовать двойную загрузку, но это становится довольно сложной задачей с выходом новой ОС Microsoft.

Известно, что Windows “не дружит” с Linux, в частности не распознает форматированные Linux диски и разделы и не предоставляет загрузчик, который бы позволял запускать систему с ядром Linux, например, Ubuntu. Кроме того, многие компьютеры сейчас поставляются с предустановленной защитой загрузчика Windows 10.

Первое что нужно сделать перед попыткой установить Ubuntu или другой дистрибутив Linux совместно с Windows 10 — открыть меню BIOS/UEFI компьютера и отключить опцию Secure Boot.

Разметка диска Windows 10

Перед установкой Ubuntu, нужно разделить диск с Windows 10. На данном этапе есть два возможных сценария, но изначально нужно проверить, имеется ли в системе один раздел, выделенный Windows 10 или несколько разделов. Если у вас в распоряжении всего один раздел, его придется сжать, но сначала удостоверьтесь, что на нем достаточное количество свободного пространства.

Во втором случае, когда имеется два или более разделов, вам нужно решить, какой раздел будет очищен для установки Ubuntu. В обоих случаях, щелкните правой кнопкой мыши по меню Пуск, выберите пункт “Управление дисками”. В первом случае выберите диск (C:) и в контекстном меню правой кнопки мыши выберите опцию “Сжать том”.

Установите размер нового раздела для Ubuntu, который зависит от первоначального размера диска и свободного пространства на нем, а также от вашего выбора. Обратите внимание, что вам нужно не менее 10 гигабайт для установки Ubuntu (рекомендуется 20 гигабайт и более). После завершения сжатия, закройте утилиту “Управления дисками”.

Во втором случае, выберите раздел, который нужно очистить, допустим (D:) и в приложении “Управление дисками” щелкните правой кнопкой мыши по соответствующему разделу и выберите “Удалить том”, и у вас появится нераспредленный раздел, также, как и в первом случае.

Загрузка и установка Ubuntu

Последний релиз Ubuntu доступен для загрузки с нашего сайта, убедитесь, что Вы загружаете 64-битный ISO-образ, который нужно записать на USB накопитель объемом 2 гигабайта или выше.

После завершения создания USB, подключите USB-устройство флеш-памяти с Ubuntu в свободный порт компьютера, перезагрузите компьютер и вызовите загрузочное меню для выбора в качестве источника загрузки USB флешки. Не выбирайте UEFI USB (в этом случае Windows 10 не распознается!) *. После этого, установите последнюю версию Ubuntu.

Единственное различие заключается при отображение первого экрана установки, на нем нужно выбрать опцию «Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10” (“Установить Ubuntu рядом с Windows 10”). После завершения установки перезагрузите компьютер. Выбирайте между Ubuntu и Windows 10 с помощью загрузчика Ubuntu (доступен при нажатии Esc).

Установить Ubuntu рядом с Windows 10

* Обновление: нет необходимости отключать Secure Boot или не выбирать UEFI USB при установке Ubuntu. На конкретной тестовой машине без применения данных мер, UEFI не распознавал раздел Windows 10 на жестком диске, на вашем компьютере все может работать и без данных операций.

How to Install Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 10

Ubuntu is a popular operating system which is open source and has easy installation. It is quite flexible thanks to its unlimited customization options and it highly secure in nature. For many developers, journey on Linux begins at Ubuntu which is why today we will give you a tutorial on how to install Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 10.

Pre-Requisites

Following are the pre-requirements of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installation:

1. Connect your machine to a power source
2. Make sure that you have enough space in your disk i.e. a minimum of 5GB
3. You must have the version of Ubuntu you want to install in a USB drive
4. Have a backup of your data

How to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 [dual-boot]

First of all, make a backup of your Windows 10 operating system. Because this is a risky process and any error during installation may leave your system into an inconsistent state.

Creating a backup of the Windows 10 operating system is an optional process but it is highly recommended. Once the backup is completed, it’s time to prepare the Ubuntu for installation alongside Windows 10. To make a backup of whole Windows 10 system, you can use windows default backup utility through which you can create a backup and restore it in case of any error.

Following are the high-level steps for installation which we will cover in detail in this tutorial:

• Download Ubuntu ISO image file. In this tutorial, we are installing Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Desktop version.
• Create a bootable USB drive to write Ubuntu image file to USB.
• Shrink the Windows 10 partition to create space for Ubuntu.
• Run the Ubuntu live environment and install it.

We will cover these steps one by one in detail.

Download Ubuntu ISO

1. Open your browser and enter the following URL:
   1. https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
2. Once the URL is opened, click on the “Download” button to start the download.

1. Once the download has been completed it is the time to create a bootable USB drive.

Create a bootable USB Drive

To create a bootable USB drive, we will use a tool called “unetbootin”. We will see how to download, install and use this tool to make a bootable USB. Before running this tool make sure that your USB drive is formatted in FAT32 format. If it is not formatted in FAT32 format, then format it.

Before formatting, take a backup of the USB drive because during formatting all data will be erased.

To format your USB drive to FAT32, perform the following steps:

1. Plugin your USB Drive.
2. Open “This-PC” and right click on the USB Drive.

1. Click on Format and a pop-up dialog will appear

1. If the File system is not FAT32, select the FAT32 from the dropdown list and click on Start button.

1. Once the format has been completed your USB drive is with the FAT32 file system.

Once the USB has been formatted with the FAT32 file system, now download the tool “unetbootin” to make the USB bootable. Following are the steps to download and install the unetbootin tool.

1. Download the tool from this URL (for windows)
   1. https://unetbootin.github.io/
2. Once the tool has been downloaded, you need to install & run it.
3. Select the option “DISK IMAGE” and then browse & select the downloaded Ubuntu ISO path. In addition to this, also select the USB drive in which you want the Ubuntu setup to be installed. Once done, Click OK.

1. The setup will start making the bootable USB and will start to notify once the process has been completed.

Once the USB drive is ready, it’s time to make some space to install the Ubuntu. To do this we will use the windows disk management utility to shrink up space for the Ubuntu.

Shrink space for Ubuntu

The tool we will use to shrink space for Ubuntu is “Windows Disk management tool”. Following are the steps to use this tool.

1. Start “Disk Management” tool by doing a right click on the Windows start button on the bottom left on the screen and select the “Disk Management” option.
2. A window will appear like this displaying all of the available drives.

1. Right click on the drive usually “C:” which has the biggest free space and select the “Shrink Volume” Option.
2. A window will appear, showing up the best possible size.

1. Adjust the size as per requirement and click on “Shrink”.
2. The shrinking process will be started and a new unallocated partition is created once the shrinking process has been completed. This partition will be used to install the Ubuntu.

Once the shrinking process has been completed its time to run the Ubuntu live environment and then install it.

Run & Install the Ubuntu:

The first step to install Ubuntu is to run the Ubuntu live environment. To run the Ubuntu live environment, we have to reboot our PC and load the boot-up menu. Usually, in most of the machines the boot-up menu comes from “F12” shortcut key, however, in some machines, the boot-up menu appears from “ESC”, “F2”, “F10” key as well. For the actual confirmation, refer to the user manual of your machine.

1. Once the boot-up menu appears, select the option to boot from “USB FLASH DRIVE” and press enter.
2. The booting process will start and once the booting process has been completed you will have an option of how you want to use Ubuntu.
3. Select the “Try Ubuntu” option and press enter.
4. The Ubuntu live session has been started. You can try the Ubuntu live session but this live session will be destroyed once you restart your machine so to keep it persistent and we have to install the Ubuntu in our hard disk drive.

To install the Ubuntu in our hard disk drive, double-click the “Install Ubuntu” option that is located on the desktop as shown in the screenshot below.

1. After clicking the Install Ubuntu option, a wizard will appear and the Ubuntu installation process has been started.

1. Select the language and then press continue.
2. The next screen asks “Do you want to install latest updates from Ubuntu server” Select this option if you have a decent internet connection else skip this option and press continue.

1. The next screen will ask, “How do you want to install the Ubuntu”. Select the option to install the “Ubuntu alongside windows boot manager” and click on “Install Now”.

1. A window will appear showing what will happen to your disk. Press continue to proceed with the installation.

1. Now the Ubuntu personalization wizard will be started and will ask your location. Select your location and then press continue.

1. Select your keyboard layout and press continue.

1. Next, it will ask the computer name, username and the password to create a default user. Save this password as you will require it in future to use this system. Enter the computer name, username and password and press continue.

1. The setup will start and copy the files from a USB drive to the actual hard disk drive.

1. Once the setup has been completed, it will ask to reboot the system.

Once the system has been rebooted, you can see that the bootloader will ask which operating system you want to start. Select windows or ubuntu as per your requirement.

Conclusion

So, this was our take on how to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 [dual-boot]. The whole procedure is quite simple if all the steps are followed. Let us know how helpful was this tutorial in the comments below.

Karim Buzdar

About the Author: Karim Buzdar holds a degree in telecommunication engineering and holds several sysadmin certifications. As an IT engineer and technical author, he writes for various web sites. You can reach Karim on LinkedIn

How To Install Ubuntu Alongside Windows 10

Brief: This detailed article shows you how to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10, step-by-step, accompanied with proper screenshots.

Previously I had written about dual booting Ubuntu Linux with Windows 7 and 8, but those tutorials did not cover systems that come with Windows 10 pre-installed. The newer systems that come with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1, have UEFI instead of BIOS. This makes thing a little different from the conventional way of dual booting.

In this tutorial, we shall see how to install Ubuntu with Windows 10 already installed.

This tutorial is performed on a newly bought Dell Inspiron 7437 that has Core i7 fourth generation processor, 256 GB SSD, 8 GB RAM and built in 1 GB Intel graphics. I’ll cover all the steps you need to do in order to successfully dual boot Linux with Windows 10 UEFI. If you have already done some of these steps, just skip to the next one. If you have a fresh system, even better.

The steps mentioned here are applicable to other Ubuntu based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, Elementary OS etc. Cutting the chit-chat, let’s see how to dual boot Linux on a UEFI secure boot enabled Windows 10 system.

Dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 and Windows 8.1:

Though I have used Ubuntu 14.04 here, it is applicable to all versions of Ubuntu, be it Ubuntu 15.10 or Ubuntu 16.04. There are various prerequisites to install Ubuntu on a UEFI system. I’ll list them for easier read here:

• Ubuntu ISO burned to a USB or DVD (we’ll see it)
• Windows backup (optional)
• Windows 10 bootable USB (optional yet recommended as it will save your day if anything goes wrong)

Let’s see the steps of installing Ubuntu along side Windows 10.

Step 1: Make a backup [optional]

It is always nice to make a back up, just in case if you mess up with the system. There are numerous articles on the web to show you how to backup your system. You can follow this tutorial here.

Step 2: Create a live USB/disk of Ubuntu

The next thing you need to do is to create a live USB or disk. I recommend Universal USB Installer to create a live USB of Linux OS in Windows.

Step 3: Make a partition where Ubuntu will be installed

Assuming tat you have a fresh system, the first thing we need to do is to make a partition to install Linux. The 256 GB in my system was already had several partitions from manufacturer but mainly for backup and other purposes. Main partition was C drive, of around 220 GB, where Windows 8.1 was installed.

If you have just one partition like this, you need to make some free space out of it for Linux. If you have several partitions of considerable size, use any of them except C drive because it may erase the data.

To make a partition in Windows 8, go to Disk Management tool. You can find disk management tool by searching for ‘disk’ in Control Panel.

In the Disk Management tool, right click on the drive which you want to partition and select shrink volume. In my case, I shrank the C drive to make some free space:

You can leave the free space as it is. We shall use it while installing Ubuntu.

Step 4: Disable fast startup in Windows [optional]

Windows 8 introduced a new feature called “fast startup” for quick boot. While it is not mandatory, it would be better to have it disabled.

Go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Power Options > System Settings > Choose what the power buttons do and uncheck the Turn on fast startup box.

Step 5: Disable secureboot in Windows 10 and 8.1

This is the most important step. The new secure boot feature of Windows 8, originally intended for security feature for rootkit viruses, prevents dual booting of Windows with Linux. To dual boot Windows 8 with Linux, we must disable secure boot in UEFI.

Step 6: Installing Ubuntu along with Windows 10, 8.1

Once you have disabled secure boot, it’s time to install Ubuntu. I hope you already created the live USB as mentioned in step 2. Plug in the USB and boot the system from it.

To boot from USB, will have to choose boot from USB option from within Windows itself. Either with PC Setting (like for UEFI) or pressing shift key while clicking on Restart.

Once you have booted in the live USB, you will be presented with option to try or install Ubuntu. Click on install. You will be presented with few screen options to choose the language. It will then do some checks on available space, power and internet connection etc. Just click on Continue.

The main screen which you should pay attention to is Installation Type. Choose Something else here:

Remember we had created some free space beforehand? We shall use the free space to create Root, Swap and Home. Select the free space and click on the + sign.

It will provide you with option to create Linux partition. We are creating the Root partition. Any thing above 20 GB is more than sufficient for it. Choose the size, select Ext 4 as file type and / (means root) as the mount point.

Clicking on OK in previous step will bring you to the partition screen. Next we will create swap. Like previously, click on the + sign again. This time use the file type as Swap area. Suggestible swap size is double of RAM.

In similar fashion, create a Home partition. Allocate it maximum space (in fact allocate it rest of the free space) because this is where you’ll save music, pictures and downloaded files.

Once you are ready with Root, Swap and Home, click on Install Now:

Well, you have almost won the battle. You can smell victory now. Next you will be asked to set username password etc. Basically, you just need to click next now.

Once the installation is completed, restart the computer, you should be welcomed by a purple grub screen. Enjoy Ubuntu along with Windows 10 in dual boot mode.

Note: If after installing Ubuntu, you boot directly in Windows, check in UEFI settings for changing the boot order.

I hope this guide helped you to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 10 UEFI. If you want to reverse the process, follow this guide to remove Ubuntu from dual boot with Windows. Though this article is written for Ubuntu, it should be helpful for other Linux OS as well. Any questions or suggestions are always welcomed.

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