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Installation type is the most important step in the Ubuntu installation. Here, select Install Ubuntu alongside Windows Boot Manager or Something else to install Ubuntu 18.04 along with Windows 10. Do not choose Erase disk and install Ubuntu as they wipe out all your data and install Ubuntu, potentially a dangerous one.
I know that there is a way in which, one can install Linux or Ubuntu on Windows easily but, what about installing Windows on Linux or Ubuntu i.e If I have a machine with only Ubuntu, how can I install Windows on it without removing Ubuntu?
I don't want to do this in a Virtual Machine. I just want to have two OS in a single hard drive.
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You can install Windows from inside Linux onto your physical hard drive, but you need separate partition as NTFS or FAT32. Below is a way to use a virtual machine to do the actual installation, but it's performed on your hard drive.
- Prepare a new partition onto where you want to install Windows.
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- Install Windows on the partition you created.
- Reinstall Grub (if partition isn't first, you need to do a trick with mapping hd's, its working for me).
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You will need:
- CD or USB stick containing GParted (see below)
- Windows DVD or USB stick (of course)
- Ubuntu Live CD or Live USB, version 10.04 or later
First use GParted to free some space to host Windows:
Install Windows as usual selecting the space you just created using GParted. This will 'activate' only Windows and Ubuntu will not be accessible at this point.To make Ubuntu accessible again, take the Ubuntu Live CD and follow this guide (or see this question or this or that help wiki page.).
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This is hardly a complete answer, but it may help. I have a development machine here with Windows 7 and Kubuntu; I used a 128 GB SSD for Windows (the whole thing) and have Kubuntu dominant on my other three hard drives, with a limited partition made for media files in Windows. Any time I do have to reinstall Windows, I simply pull out the SATA cables from the back of my other hard drives first. After the install, I power down, plug them back in, power up, and set up Windows to use the proper directories (on the other hard drives) for user documents. I've done this more than once and it's yet to give me any trouble. GRUB even recognized it after a quick device scan.
I understand that you're trying to do this on a single hard drive, but everyone else has already highlighted the issues behind this (mostly with Windows being a complete #$%@&* about having to share). If you can get a cheap SSD or even HDD, and plug it in in parallel, then keep your more-responsible OSes on the major drives, it should make the process simple. You won't even have to worry about partitioning.
(I will also say that if you do do it this way, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble by keeping every drive either MBR or GPT; try not to mix and match. It makes booting more complicated than anyone wants to deal with.)
Best of luck!
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Impossible As far as I know. First If you use Linux native partitioning, windows will not access it and hence NOT install anything. Also, even if it installs, there is issue of mbr, which will take you into complexities of overwriting each other. So it is practically bad decision and to my knowledge impossible!
What is so hard/wrong with putting them in separate partition?
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You cant install easy like wubi in windows. Yo have to create virtual machine of windows. If you have iso file for windows os, you follow the bellow,
Download VirtualBox, and you will get the deb file, use Ubuntu software center to install. After install it,
- Select 'NEW'
- Name OS,
- Select RAM size,
- select Hardrive type,
- Select VDI,
- Select Dynamically allocated(for using available free space) else select fixed size(it's not recommended by me),
- Select Hard Disk size
- Your virtual machine is ready,
- To start it, Go to settings --> Storage, Here select iso file you have stored in system
- Click ok, and select start.
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The easiest way I found to install windows on a ubuntu or any linux only pc is as follows -
- Download and Extract the entire Windows ISO to any of your drive partition. Just make sure it's preferably an NTFS partition and is not the target partition in which you want to install windows and also don't put all the files inside a folder, just extract in like, say (hd0,5)/.
- Now open /boot/grub/grub.cfg in any text editor (with root access) and paste it -
Now change (hd0,5) to the partition where you have extracted the ISO image.Reboot your computer and choose windows 10 from boot menu.
Windows is Like Blind about ext3 or ext4 partition so you don't have to worry about deleting it accidentally. Once you have installed Windows, you can always install grub to revive your lost ubuntu partition.
I have made a video to show How to install Windows 10 from ISO image in linux GRUB
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I think know what your trying to say I think you mean install Windows over Ubuntu. Just put your windows Operating System Disk in you PC and just install it over Ubuntu. But I don't know if you have important files on your Ubuntu OS so save all your usb,sd, or a disk.
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This tutorial will guide you on how to install Fedora 27 Workstation in dual boot with Microsoft Windows 10 Operating System pre-installed on a BIOS firmware machine.
If your computer has no pre-installed operating system and you plan to install Fedora Linux in dual-boot with a Microsoft operating system, you should first install Windows on your machine before installing Fedora Linux.
However, try to disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot options in UEFI firmware based machines if you plan to install Fedora in dual boot with Windows.
Also, if Windows installation was performed in UEFI mode (not in Legacy Mode or CSM – Compatibility Support Module), Fedora installation should also be performed in UEFI mode.
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The installation procedure of Fedora Linux alongside a Microsoft Windows 10 OS requires no special configurations to be made in BIOS based motherboards, except maybe changing the BIOS boot order.
Requirements
Install Fedora 27 with Windows Dual-Boot
1. On the first step, download Fedora DVD ISO image and burn it to a DVD disk or create a bootable USB flash drive using Fedora Media Writer tool or other utility.
To create a bootable Fedora USB drive compatible with installation performed in UEFI mode, use Rufus utility. Place Fedora bootable media into your machine appropriate drive, restart the machine and instruct the BIOS or UEFI firmware to boot from DVD/USB bootable media.
2. On the first installation screen, select Install Fedora Workstation Live 27 and press [enter] key to continue.
3. After the installer loads Fedora Live system, click on Install to Hard Drive option in order to start the installation process.
Install Fedora to Hard Drive
4. On the next screen, select the language that will be used during the installation process and hit on Continue button.
5. The next screen will present you Fedora Installation Summary menu. First, click on Keyboard menu, choose your system keyboard layout and hit on top Done button to complete this step and go back to main menu, as illustrated in the below images.
Fedora Installation Summary
6. Next, hit on Time and Date menu and select your region and city from the provided map. When you finish, hit on Done button to return to main installer menu.
Select Fedora Timezone
7. On the next step, open Network & Hostname menu, write your system hostname and hit Apply button to change the name of your machine. Finally, hit on top Done button to complete this step and go back to main menu.
8. Next, click on Installation Destination menu, check your machine hard disk and select Advanced Custom (Blivet-GUI) option to configure the storage. Again, hit on Done button to enter Blivet GUI Partitioning program.
Select Fedora Installation Destination
9. In this step, select the disk partition you want to resize in order to create a new partition that will be used for installing Fedora 27 in dual-boot with Windows 10.
To resize the partition, right-click on the desired partition and select Edit -> Resize from the menu.
10. On the new screen prompt, use the value bar to shrink the Windows partition to your own desired size and click on Resize button to apply changes.
Resize Partition for Fedora
11. The free space resulted after shrinking the Windows partition will be used for installing Fedora Workstation. Select the free space and hit on the
+
button to create a new partition.12. On partition settings window, enter the size of the partition, select a file system type, such as the robust ext4 file system to format the partition, add a label for this partition and use
/(root)
as the mount point of this partition.When you finish hit OK button to apply the new configuration. Use the same procedure to create the swap partition or other partitions for your system. In this tutorial we’ll create and install Fedora on a single partition mounted in
/(root)
tree and we’ll configure no swap space.Create Root Partition
13. After you’ve created the partitions, review partition table and press the top Done button twice to confirm configuration and hit on Accept Changes button from the pop-up Summary of Changes window to apply storage partition configurations and return to main menu.
Accept Partition Changes
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14. To start the installation process, just hit on Begin Installation button, as illustrated in the following image.
15. After the installation process starts, click on Root Password menu from User settings window and setup a strong password for your system root account. When you finish, hit the Done button to apply root password and return to initial screen.
Fedora User Setting
16. Next, click on User Creation menu, add the name of a new user and setup a strong password for the new account. To allow root privileges to this user, make sure you check Make this user administrator. Also, check the box with Require a password to use this account and hit on Done button to complete this step.
Create Fedora Sudo User
17. Wait for the installation process to finish and hit on Quit button to complete the installation and close the window.
18. After the installation completes, eject Fedora installation media and reboot the machine. After reboot, you will be directed to GRUB menu, where for 5 seconds you can choose what operating system you want the machine to boot from: Fedora or Windows.
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Fedora Grub Menu with Windows Dual Boot
Sometimes, in cases of dual booting Linux-Windows in UEFI firmware machines, the GRUB menu is not always displayed after reboot. If that’s your case, boot the machine into Windows 10, open a Command prompt with elevated privileges and execute the following command in order to restore the GRUB menu.
19. Log in to Fedora Desktop with the admin account created during the installation process and complete gnome-initial-setup wizard which will configure your system language, keyboard layout, privacy and online accounts. Also, open a Terminal console and update fedora system by issuing the below command.
Update Fedora 27
20. In case you want to access a Windows partition under Linux, open Disks utility, select the Windows NTFS partition and hit on mount button (the button with a triangle sign).
21. To browse the mounted Microsoft Windows partition, open Files -> Other Locations and double-click on NTFS partition Volume to open the NTFS partition.
Explore Windows Files in Fedora
Congratulations! You’ve successfully installed the latest version of Fedora 27 Workstation in dual-boot with Windows 10. Reboot the machine and select Windows from GRUB menu in order to switch the operating system back to Windows 10.