How to Dual Boot Windows 11 & Ubuntu Easily!

[@Aleks14-k1j]

i cant believe i have managed to make a piece of coloured glass and a penguin live together

[@ThatRandomLinuxUser]

Winux. Or since penguins live in igloos, Wingloo. Igloo with a tinted window

[@2FrostyforU]

@@ThatRandomLinuxUser i tried to think of a reply but i couldnt

[@EngineerPrudence]

😅Nice one!

[@joeaboulhosn3648]

You have set the bar very high for all other support videos. I am 71 years old, a retired Police Officer, IT Manager, and quite adveturous. I insetalled on my 2 laptops without a hitch and it is all due to your excellent video. I liked and subscribed to your channel. Take care and continue to make difficult items very easy.

[@EmotiCommenter]

71? Wow sir thats awesome

[@qMisaka]

you were a police officer AND a IT manager? Thats awesome

[@raphaelkgh218]

Sir, we all wish we could grow to be like you in our 70s, and that't coming from a 22, almost 23 years old guy! ❤ You should make videos about your life and your jobs, as i am interested in knowing what you know and what you'll know. Anyway

[@門格海綿]

Awesome… 😮😮😮

[@branson5862]

WARNING to anyone doing this, make sure all of your drives are unencrypted and that BitLocker is turned off before turning off secure boot. Ended up having to reinstall Windows after getting stuck in a BSOD cycle due to the drive being locked.

[@mahadmalik4982]

How to do that?

[@astrojaswanth4986]

Please tell me how to do it..

[@jacobmartin112]

Glad I saw your comment, literally just saved my ass.

[@vikas5840]

late to see this comment😢

[@mentalost]

For anyone wondering how to do it (AI generated): **Disable Secure Boot:** 1. Open Windows Defender Security Center and click on Device Security. 2. If Secure Boot is mentioned, your PC has it. 3. Go to Settings > Windows Update and check for any pending updates. Install them. 4. Navigate to Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > UEFI Firmware Settings. 5. In your BIOS menu, find the Secure Boot setting (usually in Security, Boot, or Authentication tabs) and set it to Disabled. 6. Save changes and exit. **Disable BitLocker:** 1. Open the "Manage BitLocker" option from Windows Start menu and expand the drive you want to decrypt. 2. Click "Turn off BitLocker."

[@tamaskosa4456]

For anyone whose Ubuntu installation fails use the 'Delete volume' method shown in the last section (7:31) and try again. Great tutorial! 👍

[@SparklesFall]

Thanks! For some reason a system error occurred and i had to do it again

[@ranimungcal]

Thank you i never thought i can access to the bios that quickly like you did! instead of restarting the pc everytime you need a configuration.

[@jimaustin3608]

Wow, it really works! The Amazon page for the $180 KAMRUI Mini PC I ordered never once mentioned Windows, so I was surprised to find Windows 11 installed. While searching for info to wipe the disk and installing Ubuntu I came across this video. Figured if things go south I’ve not lost anything; happily things went smoothly! Everything tracked the video except: - the Ubuntu screens are a little different … not surprising after a year. - took a little fishing to find the boot order screen on this PC; again, not surprising that firmware will differ.

[@badgoodbadgoodbadgood]

Did you delete bitlocker before installing ubuntu?

[@MrMikomi]

Unbelievable - it worked! Thank you so much for doing this video, and for not making it massively overcomplicated, tedious and excessively long, like another video that I came across on the same subject.

[@ankan7193]

Honestly best video ever : No yapping Straight to the point No extra this and that Plain , simple and precise

[@FutureKnut]

This step (3:00) - creating a hard-disk partition for Ubuntu to use - can be skipped (for Ubuntu 22.04.3 - not sure about older versions). After you select 'Install Ubuntu along Windows', the Ubuntu installer gives you the option of setting how much hard-disk space Ubuntu should take from your existing available hard-disk memory. It might be simpler and a lot safer than manually messing around with your "C:" drive yourself👍

[@60zar]

Which one is safer though? Letting Ubuntu allocate space, or doing it manually from Disk Management? and why? (Not being rude, I don't know much about this)

[@videogamer005]

When you allocate space from disk management does ubuntu automatically know to install on the empty space?

[@aleksandarmiloradovic6692]

Yes, i dont know why, but my harddisk got encrypted by BitLocker. I tried everything to deactivate it but i cant solve it. I get an error message that say "cant deactivate because it is already encrypting. Try later" wtf can someone help?

[@taimoorali818]

but how to delete ubuntu when you're done with it?

[@Nyver253]

@@taimoorali818 I am pretty sure this is how you do it. you go back into the windows partition manager and find the chunk that you put linux in, right click the linux chunk and click delete volume (it will delete any data so it is imperative that its the right volume and all valuable data is backed up), after confirming it, the box should turn gray and say unallocated with a size, next you go to the main partition right click it and click EXTEND volume, it will bring up a wizard that will have a box on the right hand side labeled "selected" and will show the amount of space that is in the gray unallocated part (it wont be an exact match but will be super close), just click next all the way through and it should reattach to the main volume. sorry if its hard to understand, i suck at putting things to words in a clear and concise way.

[@Fahrudin-mn3cg]

I never saw better instructional video on whole YT ever, nevermind if its PC related or not. Reason? I got all i need, and even more, i learned some realy cool tricks and shortcuts and functionalities and so nicely explained and shown that no one, no one can ever make a mistake. I think il go to explore more of this chanel, thanks and God bless you..

[@tonnyamittai]

Very short and precise. straight forward, so helpful thank you

[@GioProductions121]

Worked! Thanks bro! I was worried when my eyes didn't see the Windows boot loader. But my eyes were wrong

[@alexcarrera9230]

1 year later, still works to the T. Best guide for install, I use etcher for flash but worked the same.

[@tbray]

very informative - i've been wanting to create a dual boot setup with windows 11 and ubuntu for a while now, and this covered all the questions I had - thank you! I'm just transferring some files away from my c drive then i'm off to reformat.

[@delusional-ibra]

same! pretty happy with the results. thanks to this guy.

[@FallenArchange-l]

I hate windows so much at this point that I'll take anything, the only reason I haven't completely switched is because of Gaming

[@vaibhavyadav3069]

You can't install steam and play games on Linux?

[@dogzyc]

@@vaibhavyadav3069 linux has steam but not all games are available, but its possible using protondb

[@accurate_ad]

@@vaibhavyadav3069 you can, but performance will be better on windows

[@pseudo9616]

@@vaibhavyadav3069you can, I do, it’s the 2 games that I like to play that have no Linux support that causes me to use windows.

[@ryansullivan9217]

@@vaibhavyadav3069 you can, with extra steps look it up

[@Antzmacadamia]

Thank you for a great video! My Lenovo windows 11 PC wouldnt let me 'use a disk' in the reset options, so I pressed F12 during the boot (Lenovo Logo) and chose to boot from the usb drive to install ubuntu. All works well!

[@AHHHXAVI]

Same was happening for me, glad I saw your comment, thanks!

[@zindamayat]

I'm glad to watch your comment 🎉

[@dimebag108]

Got to disable bitlocker, but this video was all in all very precious. Thanks!

[@Minho17527]

How to enable data encryption again

[@claudeesteves1234]

this is the best guide ever. everything from partition to installation was wonderful. thank you for the guide!

[@jeanlucde1]

Excellent instructions, installed Ubuntu Dual Boot without acknowledgement hitch! Thank YOU!

[@yoda_in_pyjamas574]

Probably the best video I have seen on the subject. Very helpfull!!

[@dave_r]

Nice quick presentation. I wasn't expecting this and it was interesting as I've always installed a second drive for linux. And even with Slackware (1995, no less), it impressed me that linux asked if you wanted to dual boot when it saw the Windows installation. Thanks Rob. And thanks for setting up the give-away thing with SimplyNIC.

[@JohnnieWalkerGreen]

Ah, the Ole Good Slackware. And there was SLS before.

[@ioannischristou2362]

I had a PC with a 80486DX CPU back then running at 33MHz, and was able to dual-boot it using the Linux Slackware distro and the MS-DOS it originally had!!! The hard-disk had a total of 400MB (the PC itself I think had 8MB RAM that were being tested every time it booted up :-))

[@victorivanov6603]

Thank you so much, I can now dual-boot Windows and Linux. One thing to add, when you switch the safe boot off, your screen might go black the next time you try to boot. To fix this, press the reset button or remove and then put back the CMOS battery. This should fix the issue most of the time.

[@mxmike123]

That was as straightforward as can be. Thank you so much!

[@AaaAaa-yb2nb]

Great video, appreciate you adding the steps to how to revert the changes, and the shortcuts for entering BIOS

[@firmansah4909]

Thanks a lot, it works for me. I use 2 SSD NVME M.2 and installed the Ubuntu on disk 1 and the Windows 11 on disk 2. So now I've two separated OS and separated memory allocation

[@teodordevda4882]

When it comes to select the space where to install Ubuntu, what were your actions? I am planning to install Linux having 2 ssd in pc.

[@firmansah4909]

@@teodordevda4882 you just need to install the Linux on SSD 1 and the Windows on SSD 2, I preferred to install the Linux first and then Windows. You can arrange the boot options in BIOS. And then use the grub (from Linux) to create the boot options on start up. So you can choose what OS that you will use

[@Tokenq]

@@teodordevda4882 you identify which disk is which. If you know Disk 0 is your windows Installation, you install Ubuntu on Disk 1. If your Windows disk has lets say 1TB of storage and your other SSD has 500GB of space then you know that the one with 500GB is the 2nd drive.

[@avi4003]

Man ! I have a HDD with windows linux dual boot. I am planning to install a SSD. So now where should I Install my Linux? On sdd or hdd?

[@firmansah4909]

@@avi4003 you need to install the linux in your hdd then install the windows on hdd

[@DrCTC]

Simple and effective! Needed the refresher, thanks so much!

[@Rafa_Marques0202]

in order to have the install along side windows option, you need to have the partitions for ubuntu already created, you can do this through windows and the ubuntu installation takes care os the configuration

[@justinw7323]

I did this for my old 2020 msi laptop. It works!

[@mi_thiran]

Thanks that worked without any issues. All point direct on the target..

[@bulldogboy100]

You've been away too long "BOB", we've missed you. Always a wealth of interesting and useful information. Hopefully you can get back into your usual routine

[@omrizaiman7932]

You missed mentioning that GRUB still exists when you remove the linux partition. I ended up having a hard time booting windows again afterwards.

[@visitor_t-w3p]

Thank you so much..Straight to the point, & fantastic demonstration

[@suryanshsinghshekhawat8576]

I am not getting the use a new device option from 5:02 only getting troubleshoot and turn pc off

[@ssathvikgoud843]

Exactly, did you find a solution for this?

[@maheshreddykathemreddi]

Yes me too

[@diagarg5737]

Same

[@suryanshsinghshekhawat8576]

@@ssathvikgoud843 I would recommend stackoverflow

[@sebin2783]

Go to system BIOS while restarting and select ubuntu

[@asjadhashmi5948]

For the newer devices consider to disable Intel RTS before starting installation

[@Gracethrutruth]

Worked like a charm, awesome video bro

[@suparnaprasad8187]

Thank you for this awesome step by step tutorial!

[@LouisDuran]

This is the easiest and most clear dual boot tutorial I have found. However, has anyone tried doing this with Arch Linux? That distribution is very optimized for x86-64 devices.

[@claudioguendelman]

Nice machine more then 40 years ago was a dream a pc soo small . thanks fpr the video

[@nikitaGrushchev1]

great and clear video, wish more tutorials were like this.

[@liavdotexe2763]

thank you so much, i succsecfully duel booted without any issues, take my like

[@bestplace2479]

love the video, short and on point. But does this also work if you want to multi-boot Linux as a 3rd operating system?

[@Tony-xn7sd]

Exactly what I needed to know and explained clearly and quickly, cheers mate, got yourself another sub :)

[@saramatuszewska4445]

It works! Thank you very much for this tutorial

[@Minho17527]

How to enable data encryption again.

[@tall-handsome7152]

This is awesome! Great work and thanks!

[@georgederleres8489]

5:45 How are we esuring that the linux installation chooses the partition we created earlier?? It seems to me like it's by default installing to my C-drive. You should have not skipped this part. Good video overall and thanks!

[@georgederleres8489]

And yeah, my linux partition seems to be completely unused, everything must be installed in C. Have I missed something or was this part not clarified well in the video?

[@bilalnagina2343]

Try choosing the GPT option while using rufus to install the Ubuntu system, if your BIOS has uefi enabled

[@zabproYT]

Thanks Bro, Simple Tutorial, keep it up👍👍

[@edgarjefimov3896]

It worked! THanks!!

[@antispin3311]

Worked for me and thanks!

[@BhaweshKumar-yl5tz]

Plz be specific 5:10 on which drive to install . Select the drive you have partioned manually other wise using install alongside windows will ( i my case i didnt partitioned the drive that had windows but my second ssd) create a partiton on disk which will not be visible in the file explorer. I dont know what will happen if someday windows crashes and needs to be reinstalled (i suppose linux will be erased ) better safe than sorry

[@Starter-t7x]

Thankyou so much…it worked…But turn off device encryption before turning off secure boot

[@prajnadeep]

Thank you for this tutorial. It's very simple and easy to understand

[@scp_films]

Thank you very much! Should secure boot be turned on again after succesful installation?

[@solRandom]

You are the best of the west. I was able to do it along with what peopl say either bitlocket and blah blah also either chat gpt telling me how to turn that off lol

[@Sparzzzzzzzzzzz]

Beautifully explained. Thank youuu for this!

[@kommando404]

Thank you bro, you’re my hero🙌🏻

[@HeshOut]

Much Appreciated.... I don't know but holding [shift+restart] takes me into an infinite black screen with no cursor. So I hv to press power button everytime manually to go back to windows normally. But when it turns on it seems to be some options available there but none for "Selecting a device" like in your case usb was availabe but not for me....

[@Doubleside_Face]

very clear explanation

[@sabbirsiddiquesabb]

It is very important to check updates and third party software's option. Otherwise Ubuntu may not boot for driver dependencies.

[@navinrangar2626]

*ATTENTION PL* In case, you are not seeing "choose os option" after you have done all these things mentioned in the video and it only open you to the windows. Boot the device again with Ubuntu as you already did. You are done? But before you restart it after Ubuntu is installed, you should see a file named "install Ubuntu version whatever LTS" on screen with Ubuntu icon.. click that file it will do some more installation or will ask you to setup uname and password if you haven't already.. Once it is complete, restart the computer, hoping it will be fine now.

[@anjanasinghrathaur7993]

Really helped me thanks alot sir👏👍🙏

[@konstantinoskonstantinidis1945]

Nice vid! Two questions: 1. May I delete the what was saved in the USB during that process, or I may be required to use it sometime in the future for the maintanance of the OS? 2. If Ubuntu exists in the BIOS Boot Menu but doesn't boot, should I connect the USB Drive I used for that process again?

[@SwollenCranium]

Delete it. Also, everything on your Hard drive. Its safer that way.

[@kevinabsey8867]

Perfect.. best video on this stuff. Nice job!

[@INSTANTHEALINGMEDITATION]

In Cmd type the following to reboot into bios without pressing or holding anything. Shutdown /r /t 0 /fw

[@GANESHSINGH-uc1gk]

One of the best video soe far clean set up

[@Ginsengul5]

Thank you bro!🎉

[@yash_pandey]

guys do not delete linux by the method he is telling , you will get a black screen with gnu and stuff and it took me a whole night to remove that and it was hell pls follow proper preocedure to remove it , the last part is really wrong and it would make so much mess for you

[@yash1152]

3:02 > _"choose shrink volume"_ how long has this option been around in windows & other OSes? woww, how come i never thought that this option would exist. i have been manually emptying the drives by moving _ALL_ of its data to some other drive, and then repartitioning the now empty drive. and because of this lack of knowledge, i was unable to proceed any further since i needed to repartition a drive containing huge amount of data. this "shrink volume" action is gonna be a life savor. sooooo great.

[@liegedevelopersinc.5769]

It's been around since windows XP, at least. I had it figured out when I was much younger and I would play around with my dad's old office PC. Ironically I ran into many issues partitioning the drive now when I'm supposedly "brainier" as opposed to my younger self getting it right in the first attempt when I had no idea what I was doing 😅.. but upon further inspection it's due to unmovable files which despite numerous efforts to get rid off or disable temporarily I haven't been able to achieve fully. So I can only shrink volume to like 30-40%.. so I had to use a third party partitioning app and it was able to get the job done. It was annoying though to do all that when I have installed Linux distros including Ubuntu before and never ran into those kind of problems.

[@abdulqahar2943]

thanks for the information

[@vahida6146]

Thank you for your tutorial...For some testing porpuses I need to install an Ubuntu server along side my windows so I can switch my PC to a server and access it from other computers on the local network, is this tutorial also work for Ubuntu server?

[@omarhalawani6658]

great video!

[@MiBaLinuxTech]

Tanks for the video!

[@khalil177]

Lay7afdk akhoya zin

[@zakquinn5420]

Can i make a recovery Windows USB after I've installed dual boot? i've onyl got a 32gb usb - want to first download ubuntu onto it..install that...then dual boot is there..Then I'll go to download windows recovery to that USB?...any issues with doing this?

[@ioannischristou2362]

The process was not at all as smooth with my machine, but I got it to work as well. First, right after it started booting from the installation media USB, i got a "black screen of death". As I found out this was due to incompatible drivers for the nVidia GPU I have that the installation media used. To solve this, when the screen with the options "Install Ubuntu" and "Try Ubuntu" appears, you must press the key 'e' on the keyboard, and then add the word "nomodeset" without the double quotes at the end of the line that starts with "linux", then press [Ctl]-X. Unfortunately, after doing that, when it gets to the screen to let you choose how to install Ubuntu on the disk, I only got the options "Erase disk and format for Ubuntu" and "Partition Manually", and of course I didn't want to go with either option. The problem now was that the Ubuntu installer couldn't recognize the Windows Boot Manager living on the same disk. To resolve this, I had to make sure that my UEFI/BIOS system would boot onto UEFI only, instead of using the "BIOS compatibility" mode it was using until then. I had to go to the UEFI firmware settings, and "disable" the "Launch CSM" option, disable the "Fast Boot" option of the motherboard itself, and finally, change the "OS Type" of the "Secure Boot" option in my firmware settings to "Windows UEFI Mode". After saving these changes to the firmware (after I had made sure all my disks were partitioned using GPT), I re-formatted the USB using Rufus, but this time selecting "GPT" as the "Partition Scheme". And then, following the same instructions as in the video, but also making sure to hit 'e' to edit the command line parameters to include the "nomodeset" when asking to install or try Ubuntu, at last I was able to correctly install Ubuntu 23.04 alongside my Win-11 Pro installation. A long process due to the fact that my PC was using "BIOS compatibility" settings when booting from UEFI...

[@AriyaMonry]

Thanks a lot. so useful

[@yashgothwal5894]

At 5:05 when I go to use a device then it shows 2 options - First being efi USB device, when I click it, it shows the selected boot device failed. What to do?

[@ShubhankitSingh]

Have you got any solution?

[@yashgothwal5894]

@@ShubhankitSingh Nope 🥲

[@iitsMKC]

So when's the giveaway done 😅 thanks for the vid

[@arifsaleem-7377]

thank you for this

[@vaibhavrajvardhan4438]

Great bro it worked

[@NoiseBox1980]

I had to turn on AHIC and disable Device Encryption (previously known as Bitlocker) to make this work. So it is not as simple as suggested. I think that it might be better to try Windows Subsystem for Linux before doing Dual Boot.

[@ATop1x]

Thats a great video. Is there any risk in removing secure boot?

[@die3ddrucker]

yes but very small. go buy a good anti virus

[@hrushikeswarareddy251]

Hey what should be the minimum (best) configuration to maintain the both OS

[@XWolf0f0dinX]

Don't listen to taking bitlocker off... see what happens. I saw some saying it won't happen. It most certainly will. And it will very much have you back to youtube, downloading a USB and disabling secure boot and never long enough to boot from a live USB installation of which is found on the Microsoft Windows 11 Help page on how to fix this problem. Either save your encryption key and back up a recovery key or both. I forgot how sensitive it was and I sent my gen 13 i7 1365u, 32gb into a boot loop and had to make my own USB boot drive as well as a boot drive now for almost every major Linux distro.

[@Addivsu]

Please someone help me, I can’t shrink volume of the disk, it says that I can do that just by 2gb, but I got more than 180gb free

[@heyguyslolGAMING]

6:25 "RESTART... remove the usb and see what happens..." best line ever, lol... 🖥🔥🧯

[@Razax7]

During ubuntu installation, after connecting internet and clicking next, it asks that your system has Intel RTS installed and it has to be turned off. What am I supposed to do there? I'm using dell i7 8th generation touch screen.

[@jalalbukhari1149]

Thanks beautifully explained ill install today in my collegues system, i want to ask you one thing which software you use to record screen even you are in bios the screen recording is nice . which tool to use thanks.....

[@skeuoo]

most likely a capture card along with multiple pcs

[@chetanvarma4942]

Hey , help me out here I followed the steps And when I reached 4:19 I restarted the WiFi settings So it asked for a password, I couldn't go back , I tried a few passwords( giving it a shot) and it kind of blocked me The error is " Enter incorrect password 3 times please power off your system and reboot it again, system halted " Note: I don't have power button, it kind of popped out and I use a pin to press a reset button beside SD card port ,and start my laptop 😅 Can anyone guide me here I'm waiting for my laptop to die now coz I don't have a detachable battery

[@Peaceull]

5:51 you skipped this part really fast, so installer will automatically find unallocated partition on same drive as windows?

[@airgavvy]

You got most of it right, but do consider some edge cases before putting out steps. Nevertheless, before you DELETE the Patition, make sure to change the order of the boot with Windows on top and make sure that you can restart the pc directly to windows! only then you should delete the ubuntu partition.

[@1mjcee]

You are like Eminem, even the way you explain. Thank you

[@TranquilSeaOfMath]

I liked your dialogue and screen views.

[@CHESSCRAZE]

Ubuntu installed and told to restart. I removed the usb and now it threw me into a GNU GRUB version 2.06 page. What should I do now?

[@MrBobWareham]

This is OK until grub gets corrupted then you will not be able to get into Windows 11 or Linux, so I want to put Linux on a separate SSD plugged into my USB port, but I think TPM is blocking it?

[@Rad1ation]

I have a pretty similar bios but the boot option was under security instead of boot.

[@B4Chaos]

[@DNAMobileGaming]

Thanks you blue up my PC JK I forgot how to do this so I'm here again 😂

[@dhivyadharshini3048]

Currently, Ubuntu 24 is freezing a lot. I had to delete it and dwnld older version and prblm fixed. It's best if you install any of the previous versions.

[@NineLivesSoftware]

Thank you! 😊

[@JoaoRobertoDev]

Perfect video!

[@SomanathaBasavanuty]

should we use pendrive every time when we want to work in ubuntu??