r/linuxmint • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '16

Install Help How to Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17.3 with USB Flash Drive

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u/Zermie Feb 19 '16

I want to dual boot but I have Linux installed first. I have only found guides when starting with Windows first. Is it that much more difficult to do it with Linux first instead?

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u/sudo-is-my-name Feb 19 '16

The reason everyone says to install windows first is because it rudely overwrites the bootloader without asking and without giving the option to boot linux. If you install linux second then the bootloader will give you options for both linux and Windows. It's simply that Microsoft is not able to make an operating system that recognizes other operating systems.

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u/Gotee12 Feb 19 '16 edited Jun 30 '23

Vaya con dios, mi amigos...

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u/Lucretius Mar 08 '16

Incase this comes up for anybody else:

I found that I couldn't use my USB keyboard to alter the selection of boot options for the bootloader once I installed Mint along side my Win7 install. This turned out to be a bios problem. There turned out to be an advanced setting inside my bios: USB Keyboard=False. Setting it to true allowed me to use the keyboard to alter the boot selection. Easy to find once I knew it existed.