[GTALUG] installing linux while retaining Windows 10
William Park
opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Tue Jan 5 23:30:10 UTC 2016
Yeah, I got bitten by hibernation issue last week, when I was upgrading
Windows7 laptop to Windows10. You can't mount NTFS partition when it's
hiberating!
Now, as for Linux install, I use SSD in slimstyle DVD slot, using $15
adapter.
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William
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:46:55PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> When I buy a PC, it almost always comes with Win 10 these days and I am
> not brave enough to throw it away. So I install Linux beside Windows.
> For this I need to shrink the Windows partition.
>
> Windows is unwilling to shrink its NTFS partition to less than half
> its original size. That's because it has placed the Master File Table
> in the middle of the partition and considers it unmovable. There are
> third party tools that can do this but I don't want to learn about
> them or trust them.
>
> So use Linux to resize the partition to give Windows less than half of
> the disk. There are a couple of tricks that you need to know.
>
> Windows 10, by default, uses something called Fast Startup. That
> means that when you ask it to shut down, it only hibernates. I think
> that that means that if you change its partition (or any of several
> other things) while it is shut down, Bad Things might happen. I think
> that it is best turn off Fast Startup before shutting down Win 10.
> Settings:
> System:
> Power and Sleep:
> Additional Power Settings:
> Choose what the power buttons do:
> Change settings that are currently unavailable:
> Under Shutdown Settings, untick: Turn on fast startup (recommended)
> (I don't think that Microsoft wants you to find this.)
>
> Shutdown Windows 10.
> Boot your favourite Live linux (need not be what you install).
> Run gparted to resize the NTFS partition.
>
> SUPERSTITIOUS MODE ON /* this seems to be needed */
> Immediately shut down Linux.
> Reboot Windows (it will repair some damage caused by ntfsresize).
> Shut down Windows.
> SUPERSTITIOUS MODE OFF
>
> Install Linux however you wish to.
>
> You can turn on Windows' fast startup. But only if Linux and Windows
> share no filesystems.
>
> ================
>
> Alternative solution (unreliable report of Giles' approach):
>
> Before EVER booting Wind 10, install Linux.
> Win 10 first-boot process won't eat a Linux installation.
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