Dual Booting

Aim:

Creating Dual Booting in pc or laptop

Apparatus Required:

S.NO Name of the device Quantity

1 bootable pen drive or cd with Linux 1
os
2 Running PC With Windows OS 1

Theory:

Even if you only have a single hard drive, you can have multiple operating systems on
that hard drive. By partitioning the drive into several different partitions, you can have one
partition for one operating system and another partition for another operating system,
splitting the drive between them. (In reality, many operating systems use multiple
partitions. The point is you're devoting part of the drive to one operating system and part
of the drive to another.)

When you install a Linux distribution, it typically installs the Grub boot loader. Grub loads
instead of the Windows boot loader at boot time if Windows was already installed, allowing
you to choose the operating system you want to boot. Windows also has its own boot loader,
which can be used to select between different versions of Windows if you have more than
one installed.

Procedure:
STEP 1: Unallocating the Required amount of Hard Disk Space
 This step is required to free up some space from your NTFS formatted Hard Disk. This
unallocated space will contain the Linux System Partition and hence it is necessary for
you to decide carefully how much space you will be devoting to Linux. To do this go to
the Windows Disk Management Service. You can go to ‘Run’ enter ‘diskmgmt.msc’
and run.

STEP 2: Creating a Bootable Linux USB Drive

 For the purpose of this article, I will be installing ‘Ubuntu’ as the Linux OS of choice
as it is the most popular Linux OS and has a large support base. We first need to
Download the Disc Image File (.iso file) of the Ubuntu OS from the Official Ubuntu
website (www.ubuntu.com). The Latest LTS (Long Term Support) Version is preferred
over the non-LTS version, as they provide update support for 5 years rather than 9
months for the non-LTS versions. We also need another software called Rufus for the
creation of a Bootable USB Drive. A Bootable Drive is one from which the machine
can load the OS without installing it. Then we need to backup all the Contents of the
USB flash Drive and Start Rufus. In Rufus,

STEP 3: Disabling Secureboot and Fastboot (Only for Newer Machines)

 Attention! To ensure successful installation of Ubuntu, it is important to disable
BitLocker and secure boot from your bootable drive. It should be noted that in most
modern machines, there is only one drive for booting and storing data, and disabling
secure boot without disabling BitLocker may automatically trigger security measures
that prevent the installation of Ubuntu. Therefore, to disable BitLocker, navigate to the
Manage BitLocker option via the Start menu, select “Turn off BitLocker,” and follow
the prompts to complete the process. You could get you recovery keys from authorised
microsoft account that is logged in you machine. After creating a backup of recovery
keys you can safely go to the next steps for disabling secure boot.
 This step is not required for older machines say, older than 2012. In this step we need to
enter the BIOS/UEFI menu of our Computer. In case you are running Windows 8.1/10,
before entering the BIOS/UEFI Menu you need to disable ‘Fast Startup’. For this go to
the ‘Power Options’. On the left side options go to ‘Choose what the power buttons do’
then click of ‘Change Settings that are currently unavailable’ and Untick ‘Fast Startup’
Below and save these changes.
 Now this step of the Process is manufacturer specific. I suggest you to Google a bit to
get the exact key combination you need to press during the machine startup that will get
you into the BIOS/UEFI Menu. In most Cases you need to press either one of the f1, f2
or f12 keys after turning on the machine but before windows starts booting up.
STEP 4: Booting Ubuntu Linux From USB Drive
In the next step we boot Linux from the USB Flash Drive we just created. To do this we enter
into the ‘Boot Options’ during the machine starts up but before windows starts loading.
STEP 5: Installing Ubuntu Linux
 Once Ubuntu has booted off the USB Flash Drive you can try out the different
applications that the linux distribution has to offer and once you verify all the basic
functionality of the OS that you will be using work on your machine, we can
proceed with the installation. Run the ‘Install Ubuntu’ icon shown on the Ubuntu
Desktop by Double Clicking it and Follow the steps as shown below.
 Once You reach the Step asking you ‘How do you want to install Ubuntu’. Select
‘Something Else’ and continue. In the next screen you will see a window showing all
the hard disk partitions on your machine. You need to find from among all the
partitions, the one you unallocated in the 1st step, it will be labelled as free space in this
window and it’s space should roughly match 102400 Mb. Highlight this ‘free space’ by
left clicking it and then select the small ‘+’ sign below, this will pop a dialog box for
the creation of a new Partition.
 Now since i already have Linux installed on my system you see that there are 2
partitions of types ‘swap’ and ‘ext4’ these two are the Linux Partitions.But if you didn’t
have Linux installed previously you would only find a portion labelled as free space as
mentioned above. 1st we will be creating a ‘swap area’ we highlight the ‘free space’
open the new partition creation window and enter the amount of space for swap as
equal to the amount of RAM you have. then select the ‘New Partition type’ as
‘Primary’ and finally select ‘Use as’ ‘swap area’. Now as i already mentioned since i
already have linux installed, from now on i am going to continue the installation
process in a virtual machine and hence the exact partition table and partition sizes may
not match.

 Also make sure your ‘Device for Bootloader Installation’ is set to your internal Hard
Disk Drive. (Where Windows is installed and Linux is going to be installed) in most
cases this is ‘/dev/sda’
 After this you simply need to continue and give your login credentials (Username,
Password) and then the installation begins. After the installation completes you can shut
down your computer, remove the bootable USB drive and the next time turn on your
machine you should be presented by a grub window as shown below, letting you choose
between Linux (Ubuntu, 1st Option) and Windows (Windows Boot Manager). And
there you have your own dual booted syste
Result:

Implementing a dual booting in a pc is Successfully Created