How To Install Linux Mint And Keep Windows: Dual Boot Tutorial

very nice presentation. easy to follow for new users. I will recommend it.

Thank you for making this so simple, plain, and straight-forward. What a blessings for one machine--so efficiently with dual-booting.
This is very similar to what an old programmer taught me to do with a start-up batch-file when the office I was working for went to "winderz" back in the early 1990s. I put this batch file on a 3.5 'stiffy' disk, and whenever I needed to (a) boot in DOS, and (b) run R:BASE from DOS--it was a breeze. 🛥

Do these instructions work with Linux 11?

This works for xfce tpo right?

Window10 is preventing me to install Linux Mint20.3, and I'm unable to use the boot menu that is nowhere to be found, support from the seller is useless, Support from Dell is, great but still no boot menu,

I could not run deluge. Windows complained about a missing dll. Am downloading iso directly. Fingers crossed.

Does this method work on windows 7

Beautifully explained without any jargon and presuming any background. Keep it up.

What should I do if it does not detect windows 10 during the installing phase and just wants me to erase the disk.

Can i do this in windows 7 ultimate??

can I use an SD card for this?

Good job. Thanks for the slow pace. The only suggestions are, lose that distracting background music and it appeared that you had perfect zoom on the Rufus form when it was drifting across the screen but then pulled back to a difficult to view size.

what if my bios is legacy?

Mint keeps trying to use the wrong drive for install

Don't do this, you'll regret it when Windows updates and probably borks the Linux install.

What do I do if linux mint doesn’t recognise windows 10?

I've downloaded this to use for dual-booting Linux Mint with Windblows 10. Windblows is required, otherwise I'd' ditch.

4 years late lol but my grub doesnt load, it just loads straight into windows

Thanks a lot! Great info!

I have Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04 and Mint 20.02 on this Dual Boot, but there is no best of Windows 10.

I have done all of the above but I am not being given the option to choose linux when starting up my laptop can anyone help?

The best video I seen on installing Linux. The problem I am having is when I boot my PC and attempt to load LinuxMint on the bottom of the screen it say's (Attempted to Kill init ! ) keeps popping up. I have a 10 year old 32 bit HP Any idea what I need to do?

I simply used an iso image burnt to a dvd... 😁

I can’t dualboot Linux Mint 20 on my SSD because my laptop has Intel RST (RAID). What can I do?

Great Video Thanks. I have a problem tho. I have followed all of your instruction right up to booting linux from the flash drive. However, when I click on the link to install linux nothing happens, infact all the icons on the home page are inactive even tho my mouse worsk. Can you throw any light on what might be the cause please?

Nice opening on your video man i like it ;-)

The only thing to make it better is to stop the video and in large letter write the link address in the window for a minute.

The very best tutorial for beginners, most other tutorials goes too fast and not details because they know how to use it and they flight by it. 👌

Couldn't install because after language the 1st option is the erase it all to install

When I get to the "installation type" step it asks if "...I want to install alongside Windows 10-" I do want to install alongside Windows but my current OS is Windows 7. Would it be safe to go ahead and continue with that choice checked or will that make a difference? I've been searching forums and other YT vids for a long time and haven't found a definitive answer to this question yet. Would really appreciate some feedback!

I did everything mentioned until it got to the dialog screen saying it did not detect any other operating system would I like to erase all and install Linux Mint. Is this a defect in the new LinuxMint20?

I tried doing this on a devoted SSD (all others disconnected) and when I went to install I had to use "compatibility mode" to not get a glitched out screen and when I installed it and selected restart it said to remove the usb drive so I did and pressed enter and all I got was a message saying something about something failed ([0.350863] initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed)..... I'm in the process of re-trying the install again, same way...

I did every step like you did . But when I finished installing Linux and went to remove the drive and press ENTER it booted into windows without asking which operations system to choose. I did the whole process again and same thing happened. Help me pleases

thank you so so much. I could fix my prob through this video...

This is the most understandable ive seen for this subject thanks.

Best tutorial on this subject. Well done ol' boy.

Please detailed what specs pc of your or what best specs for mint to really work with no issue.

After booting from USB, a black screen appears!
Saying nothing but *Black is Blind*

Tell me what to do? :(

Although I haven’t tried to follow through yet I found this video the most complete and well presented one on Linux to date! Thank you. As my old computer doesn’t seem to be able to boot from a USB I have installed some software on a CD that makes this possible (again, not yet tried). I suppose there is no way to modify the BIOS to enable a boot from USB that you know of?

Tried step by step. Installation type does NOT recognize my win10 boot.

Thanks... This tutorial is very helpful to me as a newbie in installing a linux system ( ╹▽╹ )

Install Linux and WIndows on a PC - showing a Mac. Would be interested in the latter. The first is kind of old stuff and known to work for decades.

A lot of thing change and is very tuff to make dualboot works. No one in internet can help.

Nice video but it does not allow me load to alongside windows and as i can see from numerous other comments, there is no solution been offered.

Wont my pc slow down having 2 os on it?

Great info. For  dual boot, how to access the c: drive (internal) and d: drive (external hard disc),  as well as  folders and files created under windows 10 ?

really detailed tutorial..hat off..salute!

you're good , please keep up, easy to follow

A genuine thanks for your smooth and easy to follow tutorial. I will be loving Lynux Mint from what I have viewed so far.

Warning: When you shrink the Windows partition, there's a chance you may corrupt a system file and break Windows so that it no longer works right. The only sure way to set up a dual boot is to start with Windows install media and copies of all the windows drivers your computer needs. Reformat your primary SSD or hard drive and create a new Windows partition in only as much of the drive, leaving the space blank in which to install Linux. If you use the partition creation tool in the Windows install media, then it'll automatically make the separate small system partition. Re-install Windows and all of your Windows drivers for your computer.

Then you can install Linux separately in the free space you've created.