DUAL BOOT WINDOWS 10 AND ELEMENTARY OS FREE

Pop in the Ubuntu installation medium and reboot into the F12 startup options menu. This will automatically turn on Legacy boot support, which you'll have to turn off later if you want to turn Secure Boot back on. Check Dell's documentation if you're not sure what to take out.Д«oot into the BIOS, go to the Boot screen, and disable Secure Boot. This involves removing one small Phillips screw to release the SSD board. Power down AND UNPLUG the system, and remove the SSD.

You'll end up with 256G of the 2TB drive partitioned like the SSD, and the remaining space open and unformatted. If you're going to keep using Windows on the SSD, there's no need to resize.

DUAL BOOT WINDOWS 10 AND ELEMENTARY OS FREE

This is recommended since Windows stores all kinds of crap on the system partition as it does upgrades, and over a period of years you will almost certainly run out of the piddling ~200GB of free space on the SSD's Windows partition. If you want to ultimately move the Windows 10 boot to the HDD, you can take this opportunity to grow the Windows partition. Use Reflect to 'restore' the SSD image onto the empty 2TB drive. Use Reflect to image the complete SSD into a file on HDD #2. Once everything is together and installed, follow these steps: In addition to the 8930 and the Ubuntu installation medium, you need one additional piece of software: Macrium Reflect, the disk imaging tool. I came up with this somewhat devious workaround, installing Ubuntu on the 2TB drive that came with the system and borrowing some storage space from a second HDD that I had already bought to increase the storage capacity of the 8930. Even after disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS, the Ubuntu 18.04 installer failed to recognize the SSD at all, so it only offered a standalone installation. I just faced this problem on a new Dell XPS 8930.

Dual boot windows 10 and elementary os