2026 Guide: Dual Boot Linux Mint & Windows on One Drive
In today's Part 3 of our 'Switch to linux' series, we're going to show how to install Linux Mint Mate on the SAME drive as an existing Windows 10 installation. We'll be using our 10 year old Dell Optiplex, which has a 240GB SSD storage drive.
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➡️ Websites/Sources:
Fast Boot How to Geek: https://www.howtogeek.com/why-windows...
Fast Boot/Hibernation Microsoft: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/win...
Ventoy: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Linux Mint Mate: https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Chapters:
0:00 Intro to part 3 of Switch to Linux
1:35 Shrinking your Windows drive in Windows
3:19 Why we need to disable Windows’ ‘Fast boot’
4:37 Disabling Windows Fast boot in powershell.
5:22 Tweaking our BIOS-Disabling BIOS fast boot and enabling UEFI.
6:24 Selecting our linux boot in Ventoy
7:00 Starting Linux Mint Mate
7:33 Starting Linux Mint Mate/Selecting ‘Install Alongside Windows’
9:14 Rebooting PC and explaining the new Linux GRUB bootloader
9:50 Back in Linux Mint Mate and reviewing our storage drive partitions
11:10 Booting back into our Windows 10 and checking our partitions again
12:09 Conclusion
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