How To Install Ubuntu Linux Alongside Windows 10 (UEFI)
This guide is targeted on computers which has a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on the standard Basic Input Output System (BIOS). Another guide are going to be coming out shortly to hide the BIOS version.
What this means is that when you were using Windows 8 and 8.1 before upgrading to Windows 10 this guide is useful for you. If you have just purchased a brand new Windows 10 machine and has now a standard disk drive (i.e it isn’t a Surface Pro) this guide will even work for you personally.
If your computer employed to run Windows 7 before upgrading to Windows 10 it's highly probable until this guide isn’t suitable then you should follow the guide.
How can you tell when your computer features a UEFI more than a standard BIOS?
In the search box in the bottoom of the screen type “System Information” when the icon appears at the pinnacle click on it.
Halfway around the right panel we have an item called BIOS mode. If it says UEFI this guide is useful for you.
Steps For Dual Booting Windows 10 And Ubuntu
The steps necessary for dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu are listed below:- Backup your Windows 10 os (optional but important)
- Create a Ubuntu USB drive
- Enable booting at a USB drive
- Shrink the Windows 10 partition to produce space for Ubuntu
- Boot into Ubuntu live environment and install Ubuntu
- Amend the boot order for making sure Ubuntu can boot
Back Up Windows 10
In their email list of steps above I have put this down for an optional requirement but I can’t stress highly enough that you can really practice it.
Let’s imagine for a short time that you possess a machine that employed to run Windows 8 and you also spent enough time upgrading to Windows 10.
If you follow this method and for unkown reasons it doesn’t work as well as your machine is left in the undesirable state then and not using a backup the minimum it can cost you is the time you will need to reinstall Windows 8 then upgrade to Windows 10.
Imagine if you are don’t contain the Windows 8 media so you don’t use a viable recovery partition. You now have not a way of getting Windows back without buying either the Windows 8 disk which costs around £90 or possibly a Windows 10 disk which costs £199. You would must also find and download any required graphics, audio along with other drivers essential for Windows to own properly.
I have written tips (linked below) which demonstrates how to backup all of your current partitions employing a tool called Macrium Reflect. There is a free version in the tool available as well as the most this tutorial costs you is time and when you don’t have one an external hard disk drive or a spindle of blank DVDs.
Click here for my guide showing the way to backup Windows 10.
Create A Ubuntu USB Drive
There are numerous tools around for building a Ubuntu USB drive including UNetbootin, Universal USB Creator, YUMI, Win32 Disk Imager and Rufus.
Personally the tool that I find most successful for creating Linux USB drives is Win32 Disk Imager.
I have written helpful information showing how you can create a Ubuntu USB drive.
It helps guide you to do these things:
- How to get Win32 Disk Imager,
- How to fit Win32 Disk Imager.
- How to format a USB drive.
- How to produce a Ubuntu USB drive
- How to set the energy options in Windows 10 to permit booting from USB
- How to boot in to a Ubuntu live environment
You will obviously need to have a USB drive for this specific purpose.
Click here for helpful tips showing the best way to create a Ubuntu USB drive.
If you would choose to, you should purchase a USB drive with Ubuntu already attached to it.
Shrink Windows To Make Space For Ubuntu
If your personal machine only has one disk drive you will need to shrink your Windows 10 partition in order to create space for Ubuntu.
Click here for tips showing how you can shrink your Windows 10 partition.
Boot Into Ubuntu Live Environment
Make without doubt the Ubuntu USB drive is attached to the computer.
If you backed up your personal machine using Macrium so you chose to make the Macrium boot menu option then you can definitely simply reboot your personal machine.
When the above screen appears visit the “Change defaults or choose other options” link towards the bottom of the screen.
If you chose not to produce the Macrium boot menu option hold around the shift key and reboot your laptop. (Keep the shift key held down until a screen the same as the one below appears).
Each manufacturer includes a different version of UEFI so the menu options can be different.
The important thing is the fact a blue screen with white writing appears.
You are basically searching for the option too from the USB drive which may take some finding.From the image above I chose the “Choose other options” menu item which produced the screen below.
I then engaged the “Use a device” option which as you can tell has the subtext “Use a USB drive, network connection or Windows recovery DVD”.
A large dialogue window look with options to fit Ubuntu or Try Ubuntu.
A report on devices will appear.This isn’t initially I have installed things about this computer and my EFI partition is still equipped with links to old Ubuntu versions.
The important link for this screen could be the “EFI USB Device” option.
Choose the EFI USB Device option and Ubuntu should now boot in the USB drive.
A boot menu will show up.
Choose the first menu choice to try Ubuntu.
A large dialogue window will show up with options to fit Ubuntu or Try Ubuntu.
Click about the “Try Ubuntu” option. Ubuntu will be loaded as being a live session. You can experiment with all on the features of Ubuntu however if you reboot all the changes are going to be lost.
Install Ubuntu
To start the installation select the “Install Ubuntu” icon for the desktop.
After clicking about the “Install Ubuntu” option this screen will be:
This could be the beginning on the installation process so you can find the language which is employed to help you throughout the process.
Choose foreign languages and click “Continue”.
It is about you whether you connect or otherwise.
You now possess the option to get in touch to the internet (Unless you are over a wired connection in which particular case it are going to be automatically connected).It isn’t important to be connected online when installing Ubuntu if you use a poor connection to the web (i.e. slow) then I recommend not connecting since this will slow on the process.
The advantages of being connected to the net are that any updates that are available are going to be instantly applied and you are going to be able to put in third party tools for playing MP3 audio as part from the installation process.
It is perfectly up to you whether you connect or otherwise. To do so select a wireless network and get into the security key.
Click “Continue”.
The next screen will show you a listing of prerequisites for installing Ubuntu with ticks beside each one that is satisfied.
The only one that actually matters would be the disk space. As mentioned over the shrinking of Windows phase you may need at least 7 gigabytes of space but more is required.
Being connected to the web is only essential for installing updates around the fly and installing the 3rd party software for playing MP3 audio and Flash. (These can be achieved at a later point).
The power source choice is obviously needed for a computer's desktop but for a laptop should you have enough life of the battery you don’t want to buy to be attached to the wall. (Although in case you are close to one it is mandatory).
At the bottom with the screen is an substitute for tick a box for installing alternative party software that permits you to play MP3 audio and play Flash video. There is a better option that is installed post installation so leave this box unchecked.
Click “Continue”.
The “Installation Type” screen enables you to decide whether you want to setup Ubuntu alongside Windows or older the top.
Choose the “Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager” option.
Click “Install Now”.
A window will show up showing you what's going to happen in your disk. By default the Ubuntu installer can provide an ext4 partition for Ubuntu and your entire personal files and also a swap partition used by swapping idle processes when memory gets low.
Click “Continue”.
A map on the world will show up. The purpose of it is to create it simple for Ubuntu to put the time on the clock correctly.
Click where you live about the map or start typing it into your box provided after which click “Continue”.
Almost there. Just two more steps before Ubuntu is installed.
You now need to pick your keyboard layout. Select your keyboard’s language from the left pane after which the physical layout inside the right pane.
Alternatively visit the detect keyboard layout option and it'll more than likely get it done for you.
Test out laptop keyboards layout which you have chosen by typing in to the box provided. Specifically take a look at symbols such as dollar sign, pound symbol, hash tags, speech marks, slashes along with special characters because these are the keys that usually move around over a keyboard.
Click “Continue”.
The final step is to build a default user.
Enter your business and give your personal machine a name.
Enter a username into your box provided and opt for a password and repeat it.
Click within the “Require my password to join” option. I don’t really recommend anyone letting their machine sign in automatically unless it's a virtual machine used by test purposes.
Finally click “Continue”.
The files can be copied to your personal machine.
When the task has finished you will develop the options to carry on test as well as to restart now.
Choose the “Continue Testing” option.
Change The Boot Order So That Ubuntu Can Boot
You will need to become connected to the net for this to operate.
Click within the network icon in the most notable right corner and judge your wireless network (unless you are of an Ethernet cable). Enter the security key.
Open up a terminal window by either pressing CTRL ALT and T concurrently or click the very best icon inside bar for the left side and type “term” into your search box. Click around the terminal icon that appears.
Type sudo apt-get install efibootmgr in to the terminal window.
When asked whether you intend to continue press “y”.
After cellular phone has completed type efibootmgr to the terminal window.
A set of boot devices look.
As you can see around my list there are the next boot options:
- boot0000 for Ubuntu (this is surely an old version which enable it to be ignored)
- boot0001 and that is Windows
- boot0002 and boot0003 are two LAN devices
- boot0004 which could be the new version of Ubuntu that I just installed
- boot0005 is my USB device
- boot0006 and boot0007 are two other LAN devices
- boot0008 is yet another USB device
At the top from the text you will find that my current boot device is boot0005 which will be the USB device.
More importantly will be the boot order and that is listed as 0001,0000,0004,2001.
What this tells me is that laptop computer will boot Windows first, next the rubbish version of Ubuntu, then the new edition of Ubuntu lastly a USB device.
This is clearly incorrect.
So inside the command above I have stated I want Ubuntu as well first and Windows.
To modify the bootorder all you have to accomplish is enter the subsequent command:· sudo efibootmgr -o 4,1
The -o says that I want to affect the order. Then all I have to try and do is list an order I want things as well.
So inside command above I have stated I want Ubuntu to start first after which Windows.
Type exit in the window and reboot laptop by clicking the icon in the most notable far right corner with the screen.
Choose to shutdown and reboot your laptop.
When given the choice and before your computer actually reboots take off the USB drive.
Now if you restart your pc a menu will be with choices for booting into Ubuntu and Windows 10.
Try them both out and hopefully you should have successfully installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 10.
