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How to Dual Boot Windows 11 & Linux Mint: Step by Step Guide
How to Dual Boot Windows 11 & Linux Mint: Step by Step Guide
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Ever wanted to enjoy the best of both worlds by dual booting Windows 11 and Linux Mint on your computer? Whether you’re a developer, a gamer, or just someone who loves experimenting with different operating systems, this tutorial is for you!
In this video, we dive into how to set up a dual-boot…
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No mention of Secure Boot??? With a Windows 11 laptop pretty much everyone has Secure Boot enable, that was not at all addressed here, why?
Why is mij answer to a reaction delted?
What a gret video, and like in 1 day after i was going to install Linux Mint with windows 11, the video worked great. I just gave Linux mint 150GB , i hope it is enough. Can i resize again later if i want more/less ?
Edit: I am planning to run Mint as my daily driver, but i am not sure yet, so i am testing it out.
Thanks Jay! That was simple and straight forward. Do I have to follow the same steps if I want to dual boot Linux and other Linux distro? e.g Mint and Garuda. If the answer is no, in future, can you be so kind and make a video that shows how to dual boot different Linux distros.
Or don't compromise and get a Mac.
How to dual boot Windows 11 and Linux
– format c:
– plug in linux install usb
– reboot
– install Linux
😂🤣
But in all seriousness, Windows 11 is terrible. I'd rather chew my own arm off than use that.
Just a couple of things to add:- If you've got newer hardware you probably want to be using the EDGE version of Mint. Balena Etchers also a good program to make USBs and if you want to create Windows media, Rufus is the choice. You can eliminate all the garbage install protocols windows has in place, making it easier to install in the end. Mint probably has one of the easiest installs of any Linux distro. I wish more distros would make it this easy.
When naming your computer (especially if you have a few with multiple OS on them), make it something useful like <computer brand> – <OS> – <DE>(i.e delloptiplex990-linuxmint-xfce) instead of "mycomputer". You'll thank me later when you're trying to work out which computers which on your network or sending browsing tabs to these computers. Same goes for your Windows computer name.
The other advantage in having a dual boot computer is it's easier to install fonts for Linux when there's a Windows install already on another partition.
BTW Like the shirt
BIOS time is the biggest issue with dual booting nix and win for me.
I gave up dual booting from the same hard drive after some Windows Updates messed up my setup twice.
If you really have to dual boot, consider having each OS on a seperate physical hard drive and use the UEFI boot menu to choose which OS you'd like to use. Much safer.
I think you should have mentioned this possible snare.
Anyways, I came to the conclusion that I can do everything I need to do in Linux and if I would really need one application that requires Windows, I prefer to run it in a VM. But in the recent two years there's no Windows application left that I need, so my Windows VMs are only collecting virtual dust…
Mind you, I don't talk about gaming! I'm talking about getting work done.
Booting Windows 11 with Linux Mint is inferior, since Windows 11 is better than Mint. The Grub boot becomes corrupt and in booting in to Windows, it causes Windows to check the disk for errors. Grub takes control of the boot process and doesn't have to boot the system for Windows, so Grub/Gnome becomes the boot menu for Windows and that doesn't always work well, since it has already booted the bios for Linux and is just telling the Grub boot to read the Windows boot and have Windows take over from it. Once Windows missed a getting your computer ready update to boot and Grub tells it to boot now, the system can then crash and start the repair process, by searching for errors, etc….
Which boot manager is the computer using, GRUB, or Windows boot manager? I've watched a few videos on this subject, and they say that GRUB is prone to corruption, so dual booting with two separate drives, is more reliable. That being said, I guess that can't be done on a laptop.
You can also choose "boot to BIOS or UEFI" in the windows settings by just search "BIOS" it will bring up "change advanced start up options". This is temporary and it will auto-boot into a menu then you can choose to boot from USB. This will also get you into "live mode" the same way without worrying about pressing a button. Just make sure the USB in inserted before you click to restart.
3:20 If you find that following the precise instructions here doesn't get you a boogible. Lenox mint installation thumb drive in the end. You may need to first format that thumb drive to fat 32
Dual-Boot is NOT a good idea! If Windoz fails, and you have to re-install; Linux is their, but you can't get to it without reinstalling it again.
That's why VirtualBox or VMWare is the better choice. There are plenty of YT's that back this up!
Personally I had some problems with dual booting from same HDD. So I currently use three separate HDDs for my dual boot. Windows on sda, Ubuntu LTS on sdb, same install order and third HDD as a shared storage between both systems. One thing to note is in Ubuntu installation you can choose where to install GRUB, but with my setup it's better to not change it, which by default is going to be installed on sda. I don't use secure boot or encryption. At least with secure boot I had problems running Ubuntu. System time keeps conflicting between both systems, which is fixable. One thing that remain problematic for me is reinstallation. Reinstalling Ubuntu is no problem, as it will rewrite GRUB. But if you reinstall Windows, you can no longer load Ubuntu. I guess there is ways to reinstall GRUB, but I couldn't do it.
how to set it up so that I can boot the windows installation in a VM on linux, and vice versa?
Afaik since windows normally treats hw clock value as local time, unlike linux, which assumes hw clock returns UTC, you possibly should tweak one of the OS to change it default behavior.
timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 fixes the time issue
How did you bypass having to change secure boot on and off in bios?
Do you have to start with Windows installed or can you install Linux first and add Windows later?
Thanks for another great video Jay. The production quailty is great! Yes, you were able to successfully create a dual boot between Windows 11 and Linux Mint. The question is will Windows 11 updates cause any problems or break the boot loader? That's the main downside of dual booting. In my opinion it would be better to run Windows 11 as a virtual machine using QEMU and Virt Manager.
This is completely wrong. No one should have Linux and Windows on the same disk/harddrive, and let Grub boot Windows. If you can’t have 2 physical drives in the machine, don’t dual boot. I know it works, but it’s stupid to take the chance and loose both Windows and Linux, when Grub (or the ssd) fails in the future.
The only way is to install Windows on drive 1, and then take it out and install Linux on drive 2, so that Grub doesn’t take over Windows boot
think this could use some work, especially using Windows 11 as an example. No mention of secure boot or bit locker issues , no warnings of Windows update trashing grub , no mention of how to order grub choice so the no action default is the one you want . This guide would only work on older machines that didn't come installed with windows 11 by default.
That's a nice guide but should also show people how to remove linux again, fix the windows boot loader and add partition space back. That's the more complicated part some will struggle. That's why it's always better to do this on separate drives or just use virtual machines.
Is it possible to setup a dual boot for two Operating systems installed on separate hard drives? I have a system like this but never got the option to setup a boot manager so I always have to go into the Boot menu to select which OS I want to boot.
I have Debian 12 and Windows 11 both on separate ssd. How do I obtain a boot menu. I switch os now by going into the bios all the time but I don't want that anymore. Any tips?
Doen't windows and linux use different time uses?
is there any issue if using bitlocker? especially when partitioning the drive. should we disable it first?
Anyone know how to get rid of Grub? I have dual drive so choose the os once in the BIOS and again in Grub which is annoying.
Thanks Jay! It looks like a straight forward process. Another post here mentions using the Edge ISO for Mint in newer computers. That may prevent some headaches.
thanks jay… though found hard part is afterwards 🙂 …. 1) how to change default grub choice to windows 2) how to repair system when windows repair/upgrade messed everything up
Do you plan to make similar tutorial, but with advanced install option, when you create all Linux partition manually alongside and not destroying W11?
No mention of secure boot? Does Linux Mint allow this? Do any other distros?
@LearnLinuxTV Also keep in mind that when dual booting Windows/Linux we usually run into wrong time shown in Windows because Linux uses UTC and Windows RTC Bios Clock. You can solve this in Windows side or in Linux side, you decide where to apply the fix. Google "dual boot time issue" to find out both fixes.
I had problems with win + pop_os on two separate ssd drives. Lack of knowledge how to fix/set up bootloader 🙂
Btw, i read your ubuntu server book recently: really well done! Particularly the samba part👏👏 was inspiring.
Nice video again👍👏 About EFI partitions and bootmanager:
Not exactly the subject of today, but i cannot heartly enough recommend REFIND: sudo apt install refind. Its an efi bootmanager with a nice interface and lets you boot into usb and firmware. It also finds bootable linux kernels on the root partition in case your grub doesnt work anymore. Very handy, use it since years! For regular fresh installs on same harddisk as windows i recommend to give linux a second large (at least 2 – 3 Gb) EFI partition at the end of the disk. Some distros like Pop OS require that.
Currently we have very strong computer power, but strangly no one was able to pull a software out that lets you boot two (or more) systems at once and switch between these system on the fly with an keypress. That would be so awesome :-/
Thanks. Always very informative
That's a lot cleaner dual boot set up than I'm used to. I've always had to do my own resizing and repartitioning which is why I've avoided it like the plague for a long time.
I did recently set up dual boot between Windows and Pop!_OS and it was no where near as clean. I now have two UEFI partitions and have to select Windows from the BIOS. A bit of a pain and I'm sure that I could consolidate the UEFI partitions if I try hard and research lots, but I seldom want Windows anyway so … meh.
Great video, as always. I would just like to point out to everyone that when selecting how much space to give to Windows vs linux, you will be able to access your windows files from within Mint but when booted into Windows you can not access your files from the Mint partition(at least not without special software to mount the ext4 partition.)
GRUB is super ugly… I can't believe no one bother to make easily installable modern boot manager and its 2024… Yeah can be done with themes but thats not the point. Good job for vid, typical dual boot setup
Can I dual boot linux mint with secure boot enabled?
Bruh just yesterday I watched your Windows 10 and Linux dual boot video. And now this. Hmm….