How to Dual Boot Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS and Windows 10

hello everybody this is teca and we all know pop os is one of the best linux distributions based on ubuntu luckily popos is bringing a lot of people into the linux community and that is great but a lot of those people might want to explore with this but they need to keep their windows operating system available and the best way to do that is to set up dual booting and that is exactly what we're going to cover in this video so without wasting time let's jump onto the windows machine and start the setup process to be able to do this so here i have the etcher website open what you're going to want to do is go ahead and download this tool it will allow you to burn the iso that we're about to download onto a usb drive that way you can boot directly to that usb and install the operating system so you can either download it right here if you want to install it on your system but if you do click this arrow you will have an option to download a portable version which is nice if you only plan on using it once or you just want to be able to move it around easily after you get that you're going to want to go over to the pop os website right here and download it once you click download you will be given two options one is the regular download and the other is a download with nvidia drivers pre-loaded so if you do have a nvidia gpu you should really go with this version because it will help you out later down the road especially during the installation process to prevent some problems that may occur so download the pop os that will fit your system and then move on to the next step and that next step is we're going to make our life a little bit easier down the road uh when we get into pop os we could do this there but sometimes there's issues with unmounting certain drives so we're actually going to create the partition that we're going to be installing linux on through windows not curated but do the initial separation process so we're going to go into the start menu i'm going to search for disk and you're going to open up the create and format hard disk partitions tool so go ahead and open that up and here you will see the disks you have available the first one disk zero that should be the one your system is on you can see here it's the c drive and this is the only drive that's not removable in my system so i know it's the one i want and i want to install it alongside windows while i'll install pop os alongside windows so this is the partition that i'm going to end up splitting to be able to do this so to split it and create some free space to install linux you're just going to want to right click on that and click on shrink volume now like i said shrinking the volume will make the windows partition smaller so you have free space you can see right here the total size before shrink is the current size of the hard drive the size available for shrink space is how much free space is in the hard drive and then this one right here the number that you can actually adjust is how much free space you want to create so be careful when you're doing this because you do want to make sure you leave enough hard drive space for your windows installation so this is a 250 gig hard drive i'm only using about 20 or 30 gigabytes of space i'm going to leave myself at least 50 60 gigabytes of space but i'm just going to basically give myself just under 100 gigabytes for linux so let's go with a hundred thousand megabytes you can see that gives the linux distribution a hundred thousand and it will leave the windows with a hundred and forty three thousand megabytes if i go ahead and click shrink you can see a visualization of that essentially not essentially but it kind of cuts it in half here giving windows the bigger file system and linux about 100 gigabytes and you can do this as you see fit for whatever your personal needs are so once you do that you can go ahead and open up etcher and actually burn that iso that we downloaded on to the usb so you just click flash from file select go into the directory that the iso is in select it open it and here if it automatically selects it you could click on change just to ensure that it's gonna flash to the right usb i only have one and it's a 16 gigabyte one so i will be okay you need at least a four gigabyte usb to be able to do this because pop os is i believe around 2.3 gigabytes in size so the 4 is a good base but it's always good to have an 8 or a 16 gigabyte laying around and then we're going to go ahead and click on flash and what this is going to do is it's going to copy all the files to that iso as well as make it an actual bootable image once it's done flashing everything over it's going to go ahead and validate to make sure the installation went correctly and then when that's all done we could go ahead and basically restart our system and boot into the usb drive now i will note i will have a link down below to a article on techcut.tv that will go over some potential issues that you could have as well as some settings you might want to change in your bio so now what we're going to do is go ahead and power off this computer and go ahead and boot into this usb so now we're about to turn on our computer and all computers are different with getting into the boot screen some is escaped some computers use f12 but you're gonna have to pay attention to the splash screen on your computer and see what you need to hit to get in for me mine was pressing enter then here i have the option f12 to choose a temporary startup device i'm going to go ahead and hit f12 and then from here it's going to give me the option to boot into either my hard drive or a usb hdd which that's the usb we just flashed so i'm going to go ahead and do that and when you do start up ubuntu it's going to look a little bit weird this is all normal this is the general startup procedure but it visualizes it so if you do run into any issues you can actually see where it went wrong so that is a good thing you know that it's about done because eventually you'll be able to see the cursor and the pop os splash screen will come up so there's that cursor i was just talking about and there is the pop os splash screen so now we're going to go ahead and dive on into pop os and get everything set up all right now we are in the pop os installation so you're going to want to go ahead and select whatever language that you need go ahead and select united states if that's what you are or where you are and then let's select keyboard layout for english and then default english keyboard layout and here is where we're gonna do some customization you do a clean install if you want to if you want a clean install of pop os with no windows partition you go ahead and do that but this video is all about dual booting so we're gonna go ahead into the custom section and then go to custom and then here your device is running on battery how good am i i should be okay generally you're going to want to plug it in but i have 80 percent so i'll be fine we're going to ignore this for now and then you can see here are my partitions you see that these are ntfs meaning that these are all window partitions we saw these earlier this right here is my main windows and these are recovery and some system system partitions but we're going to be installing pop os on this unused area so we're going to go down and go to modify partitions and we are going to format that free space we made earlier as the linux file system so that is this right here the 97.66 gigabytes we're going to right click on that and click on new and here we're going to want to make sure the file system is the ext4 we are going to have the free space as zero and take up the full size available click add and then that will make that new partition if you click that link in the description there'll be a couple other things such as creating a virtual ram and for older systems or for older operating systems you might want to create a separate partition for booting but for this you don't really need to do that but once you have all this set up you can go ahead and click this check click apply and then it's going to go ahead and format that section the partition to the linux file system once it's all done you can go ahead and close that out close this out and then you can see here that it created the partition under the ext4 file system you're going to want to go ahead and give that a click slide the use this partition and we're going to go ahead and format that and we're going to do it as a root the thing i was talking about earlier with the virtual ram is swap boot and home you could do quite a few different things in this but the just base clean install is to use root and then when you're all done click out of that box it will be checked and then click on erase and install and now this is going to do is it's going to go through the entire installation process i am going to fast forward here a little bit when it's all done you'll see a screen that will allow you to keep playing around with it or restart your system and then when we do restart our system it's going to give us options to set up our user profile our username or password things like that but make sure you stay tuned to the end because by default this does not have a bootloader that can recognize windows in the way that it's being installed so when we get into the final install and reboot our system after this install we're going to need to run some commands and install a good bootloader and stay tuned and i will show you that right once this is done and then when it's completely done with the installation you'll have this screen right here it will give you the option to either restart the device or shut down you could continue to playing around in the live disk but for now we are going to go ahead and stop this and restart our system alright so we go ahead and click restart this device then it will completely shut down and when you first boot up you're going to notice that it did not give you the option to boot into windows 10. so what we're going to do is go ahead and go through this initial setup process and then um run a couple commands so it will give us the option to boot into either pop os or windows so it will be back with a better recording once i get this fully um set up all right now that we are in pop popos we need to set this up so it recognizes windows on boot and to do that first what we need to do is open up the terminal here and once your terminal is open we're going to just do a general system update so sudo apt update just like that hit enter it's going to ask for your password and then it will update all the repositories on your system that may take a little bit just depends on how old the iso was when you downloaded it but now this is actually going to take a while so we're going to do sudo apt upgrade and that is going to actually upgrade everything on your computer and now this might take a while because it's often that it needs to download a couple gigabytes worth of things and once everything fully upgrades you're going to want to install the so prober so we're going to type in sudo sudo apt install os prober just like that it's going to add the repository install it won't take any time at all and then once you're all done with that you're going to want to run it so sudo os prober and you'll see there that it does recognize windows recognizes the windows installation if it that does not show up you've ran into an issue but you shouldn't have any issues it should say windows 10 there if you did everything properly so with this now recognized we are going to update the uh grub the bootloader so sudo update dash g r u b hit enter and then it will use the data collected from the s os prober to update the boot loader now we are gonna go ahead close this out and we're gonna check to make sure that it gives us the option to boot into windows all right so we are gonna go ahead and turn on this computer and check out what this bootloader screen looks like and boot into windows 10 just so i can show you guys that it worked successfully so turning on the computer will result in a blue screen that comes up that is the grub boot loader that we installed you aren't going to have to hit any buttons quickly like before to boot into the usb drive but it is still good to know how to do that kind of thing right here is the boot loader itself if you don't hit any buttons it will boot to pop by default but you can see here this is the gnu grub bootloader and we have the options for both pop os and windows 10. for this example i'm going to go ahead and boot on into windows 10 and boom we can see here that it has successfully booted into windows 10 with the pop os installation running alongside it and that about wraps up this video here's windows 10 running in full force i do have a video up on the screen right now of the five things you must do in my opinion when you install pop os so go ahead and check out that video it is very helpful i also have a playlist right there with all other linux type videos if you're interested i hope you have a great day if this tutorial has helped you out in any sort of way give that a thumbs up check the link in the description for uh a more in-depth guide written tutorial with all of the commands and everything you need to know to be able to do this you have a great day and goodbye

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Length: 14min 17sec (857 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 07 2020