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How to format my hard drive without a boot disk
How to format my hard drive without a boot disk













how to format my hard drive without a boot disk

If you have more disk space, allocate even more free space, if you want. If you have 250 GB disk, allocate 60-80 GB or even more. In that case, go for 30-40 GB of disk for Linux. These days, you should have at least 120 GB of disk. You may install Ubuntu on 15 or 20 GB but you’ll soon start running out of disk space. This depends on how much total disk space you have. How much space do you need for Linux in dual boot? In my case, I shrank the C drive to make some free space for Linux installation. The primary partition was the C drive, around 220 GB, where Windows 10 is installed. The 256 GB in my system already had several partitions from the manufacturer but mainly for backup and other purposes. Use any of them except C drive if you have several partitions of considerable size because it may erase the data. If you have just one partition like this, you need to make some free space out of it for Linux. In the Disk Management tool, right-click on the drive which you want to partition and select shrink volume. In the Windows menu, search for ‘disk partitions’ and go to ‘Create and format hard disk partitions.’ This is why making the required free space on the disk would be better before starting the installation procedure. In many systems, while installing Ubuntu, it gives the option to make a disk partition for Ubuntu. Step 4: Make some free space on your disk for Ubuntu installation But the rest of the process takes on the system on which you are dual booting. Installing Ubuntu and creating the live Ubuntu USB process can be done on any computer. If you have such a system, please follow this tutorial to dual boot with Bitclocker encryption. If your system uses legacy BIOS with MBR partitioning system, please follow this dual boot tutorial.īitlocker encryption process is different: Newer systems with Windows 10 Pro have their disk encrypted with Bitlocker. However, there is no harm in verifying that your system uses UEFI. If you have bought your system in the last 5-6 years, chances are that you should already have a UEFI system on GPT partition. Make sure your system uses UEFI: This tutorial is only applicable for systems with UEFI boot. Please check whether your system uses GPT or MBR. This tutorial is suitable for systems that come with Windows 10 pre-installed with UEFI secure boot and GPT partitioning system. Dual boot Ubuntu Linux with Windows 10 Compatibility checks The steps mentioned here apply to other Ubuntu versions such as Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc. Once you have a good idea about the procedure and have all the necessary things on hand, start the process.

how to format my hard drive without a boot disk

See what you need and what you should do in this tutorial. Before you start following the tutorial, I advise reading it entirely first.















How to format my hard drive without a boot disk