Prepare for installation
Feb 24, 2020
3 minutes
Since very early in the history of Linux, people who wanted access to both Linux and Windows had the option of installing both OSes on a single drive. This dual boot arrangement would start with a Windows install, resize the main Windows partition, install Linux, and then GRUB (Linux’s Grand Unified Bootloader) would give you a nice menu where you could choose Windows or Linux.
In theory this should still work well nowadays, but since Windows 8, Microsoft’s boot manager and recovery partition structure have become much more
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