Dual Booting In Dual Storage

[Renju]

Can I Dual Boot My HP DA0077TX Laptop With Windows in 120GB WD SSD and Ubuntu in 1TB HDD, I Cant Find Any Related Topics In Web, Can You Guys Please Tell

[Master Disaster]

2 minutes ago, Renju said:

Can I Dual Boot My HP DA0077TX Laptop With Windows in 120GB WD SSD and Ubuntu in 1TB HDD, I Cant Find Any Related Topics In Web, Can You Guys Please Tell

Yep, I'm in the process of doing exactly this right now.

 

With Windows already installed boot the Linux installer, at the partitioning screen do not select "Install alongside Windows" otherwise it will put both on the same drive, instead select "Do Something Else".

 

Locate the empty drive and partition it with a 200MB EFI partiton first, your data partiton next with the mount point of / and formatted to the EXT4 file system and finally a 4 or 8GB partition at the end of the space formatted to SWAP. If the option exists select the EFI partiton on the 1TB drive for the bootloader location, if it doesn't then don't worry, it will put it there anyway.

 

Click OK and let Linux format the drive then when its finished installing the OS it will put GRUB on the EFI partition of the 1TB and GRUB will automatically detect Windows installed on the other drive and add it to the boot menu so when you boot you'll be asked to pick from Linux or Windows.

 

The only thing you need to do is swap the boot order over to boot from the 1TB instead of the SSD in BIOS.

[Renju]

27 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Yep, I'm in the process of doing exactly this right now.

 

With Windows already installed boot the Linux installer, at the partitioning screen do not select "Install alongside Windows" otherwise it will put both on the same drive, instead select "Do Something Else".

 

Locate the empty drive and partition it with a 200MB EFI partiton first, your data partiton next with the mount point of / and formatted to the EXT4 file system and finally a 4 or 8GB partition at the end of the space formatted to SWAP. If the option exists select the EFI partiton on the 1TB drive for the bootloader location, if it doesn't then don't worry, it will put it there anyway.

 

Click OK and let Linux format the drive then when its finished installing the OS it will put GRUB on the EFI partition of the 1TB and GRUB will automatically detect Windows installed on the other drive and add it to the boot menu so when you boot you'll be asked to pick from Linux or Windows.

 

The only thing you need to do is swap the boot order over to boot from the 1TB instead of the SSD in BIOS.

Is this Method is Same For KaliLinux

 

[C2dan88]

Yes.

 

Personally I prefer to disconnect/remove the Windows drive first when installing Linux. Once Linux is installed connected the Windows drive and run update-grub to add Windows to the bootloader.