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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

How to run Ubuntu 18 on SSD and Windows 10 on HDD using dual boot

Get two pen drives and make one of them the recovery disk for windows.
Just search for recovery disk on windows and it will help you create
one, might take 2 hours.
Now your backup plan is ready in case things go south.

Download ISO from ubuntu site and burn it over the other pen drive using rufus
Change boot order in windows bios to boot from pen drive first and
move HDD after that.

Restart pc and let it boot from usb and select the install option
Navigate to the page where it asks you if you want to install along
windows or erase or select something else

You need to select something else, assuming your SSD is 256 gig and
your RAM is 8 gig.
Now identify your ssd in the disk section and make two partitions

e. g /dev/sdb5 230 GB / on WD256DIAXX


SWAP primary at the end 16 GB
ext4 primary at the front left over 230~ gb

MOST important make sure boot loader (option at the bottom) is set to
the master hdd where windows MBR resides so that
GRUB is updated correctly, if you mess up this option ubuntu won't be
added to GRUB.

Now just do next next and it will install and reboot later, it will work fine
Ubuntu will work out of ssd with a grub entry and windows will work
from grub /dev/sda

It worked for me !

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