Things to Do Before install OS in Dual/ Multi Boot Mode With Windows 8/ 8.1/ 10
Dual/ Multi Boot Mode
Dual booting is the technique for installing multiple operating systems on a computer, and being able to choose which one to boot. If a computer with multiple operating systems per storage device is a dual-booting computer that stores both Windows and Linux on the same disk drive with the different type of partitions. In this case a multi-booting boot loader is necessary for booting any one OS when computer start. If a computer have two operating system in it's hardware that booting technique is called dual booting. when the operating system going to more than two that is multi booting. Dual-booting may require a custom boot loader.
Things to Do
You must do major two things before start installing new Operating System in dual/Multi Boot Mode
1. Shrink or leave some sapce as unallocated (Empty space without any File System) .
2. Create the any one bootable disk for your OS installation by using ISO image. The Bootable disk means CD/DVD, Pen Drives or other Removable Devices
Before start installing OS in Dual/Multi Boot Mode, you must have working Windows 8/8.1/10 installation, as it is always good practice to install any Linux after Windows installation. If you install linux after windows then the grub(Grand Unified Boot Loader) is used. Here we are going to use windows disk management to play with system partition. it is the default tool that are available in the all windows version. Please Do not use any other third party program for do this. as it is not the good practice it may cause some problems in your physical HDD/SSD .
Create Unallocated space in windows
1. Open Run Command in windows by pressing Windows key + R and then type following command
diskmgmt.msc
Press Enter and it will open a New Disk Management Window. wait few seconds/minutes for load all your system partitions.
Shrink Volume
In the Disk Management Windows select your system partition which you want to shrink memory and right click then click shrink volume
Enter how much amount of space you want shrink from partition in MB. ( 1GB = 1024 MB). After Filling the Amount in MB click Shrink Button it will create the unallocated space.
see one column has Black color that says it is the unallocated space. The unallocated space is raw space which is not have any type of file system. Please do not make any new volume on unallocated space because if you make new volume in windows it will create a new NTFS(New Technology File System) partition but in linux we are using different type of file system such as EXT, FAT, XFS.
The NTFS is not support in linux platform so it became useless in linux.That's all for the first things to do. If you done the above step successfully then you can go for create Bootable media.
Create Bootable Media Form ISO
Creating Bootable media is the process to make physical device like CD/DVD, pen drives to bootable one. so we can use that media device at the booting time. By using this type of bootable device we can install the new os. There are many different type of softwares and command line tools are used to done this process. i will give you the list of the bootable media creation software and also download link. Note This is not the top 10 list i just create list randomly. You can choose and use any one tool from them by your platform wise.
CD/DVD
If you want to write a dvd please choose any one of dvd writing software from market and just double click your iso file and open with any one dvd burning software and start writing. That it nothing to do more.
Rufus
If you don't want to use different software in the different os platform then please go for it. It is best utility for creating bootable media for Linux and Windows. You can use it in any Platforms. Rufus is the most used bootable flash drive creators.
1. Select appropriate device, select parition scheme.
2. If you have tha modern computer with UEFI boot method please select UEFI method otherwise click old bios method
3. Select the file system NTFS for windows FAT32 for Linux
4. Locate your iso file. Make sure to check quick format.
5. Finally just click start to creating..
Fedora Live USB Creator
Fedora Live USB Creator is the tool specially made for create the fedora based linux distribution. As personally i love this tool becuase i am the fedora and redhat user. This tool is perfectly suite for fedora, redhat and CentOS Linux. You can create bootable disk either directly from iso image or download iso form official website. It is available for Windows and Linux Platform.
1. Format your flash drive with appropriate file system NTFS for windows, fat32 for linux
2. clock browse to select iso image
3. select Target Device
4. Click 'Create Live USB' to create the media
Windows USB/DVD Download Tool
Windows USB Tool is the official tool form Microsoft. This tool is used to download windows os form Microsoft store and also copy the iso image to flash drive. This tool is perfectly suite for Windows platform operating system. This is the very simple tool and easy to use. It has four step.
1. browse to select iso image
2. choose the media type (File System)
3. Select the device
4. Just clock Begin copying button to create
RMPrepUSB
It is the all in one tool but some difficulty to use. It has some advance option to make usb such as install grub4dor, install syslinux and much more. This tool give some difficulty to use for beginners but if you have a some good knowledge in computer science you can use it.
The special future in RMPrepUSB is you can create a partition in your flash drive just like your hard disk. It support for all OS Platforms.
Universal USB Installer
Universal USB Installer is one of the easiest and the popular tool in this list. It is very simple. Anyone can easily use. It is also support for windows and all Linux Distros. The best tool to crate any Linux OS bootable Disk.
1. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution,
2. Select the ISO file, your Flash Drive
3. Click Install.
4. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed
YUMI
Yumi is the acronym of Your Universal Multiboot Installer. It is a special tool from the developer of 'Universal USB Installer' except it has some additional features. By using this tool you can installing more than one operating system in one USB drive without formatting it.
UNetbootin
UNetbootin is also same as the universal usb installer. you can say UNetbootin is the clone of universal usb installer. It comes with some additional feature. It became famous by it's Linux Distribution Support. It support lot of Linux Distribution. If you are plan to create the bootable usb for linux, this tool will be very helpful.
LILI
LILI is simply known as Linux Live USB Creator. The major feature of this tool is built-in Virtualization allow users to run the installed Linux operating system without restarting the Windows. If you mainly concerned only about Linux please go for this.
Booting with Bootable Disk
1. Logon to your windows os. If you use windows 8 or latest version please turn off fast startup, else go to third step
2. For turn off fast startup
click battery icon in your taskbar notification area and then click Adjust Screen Brightness
click 'Choose What the Power Button does' in the left side of window and then click 'change the settings' that are currently unavailable'
Finally uncheck 'Turn on fast startup' and click save changes
3. open Run command by pressing Windows key + R and type the following command
shutdown -r -t 0
4. click OK. Your system will be restart.
5. After computer gets turn off. Please go to boot options by press appropriate key like f12
6. Finally select your bootable media to start the installation for your new Operating System
Final Words
I hope you will learn lot of things and get good knowledge about Dual/Multi Booting, make unallocated space and also create bootable media much more.. If you have any other quires please leave command below or contact us. Subscribe Email News Feed to get all the latest tutorials in your inbox. Thank you have a nice day.
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