Re: Regarding dual boot

On 13 August 2015 at 13:25, Himanshu Shekhar <iwm2015001@iiita.ac.in> wrote:

Sorry dear!
I tried with all genuine methods and installed debian 8.1.
But whoa! I lost my activated version of Windows 10. I WAS able to access all my hard drives as I did a proper shutdown but the grub os list showed no link to windows.
I reinstalled windows 10 and still am eager to run linux flawlessly.
Please guide me.

Try using a live cd of Debian. Make sure it sees the Windows before you convert it to a full installation. Run grub update.

Regards

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 12:25:49AM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> I want to dual-boot windows 10 with debian 8.1 (amd64), as I have been an
> avid linux user for many years. I want to make sure that I shall not lose
> my original copy of Windows 10 if I try to install Debian.
> Also please make me clear about issues of dual-boot windows with debian.

Well make sure you have unused space on the disk before installing
(that is, not part of a partition, not free space on C:).

As long as you don't touch the windows partitions while installing,
windows should survive just fine.

Of course backups are always recommended before doing anything major,
like an OS install.

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Len Sorensen

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Himanshu Shekhar
IIIT-Allahabad
IWM2015001