How to Optimize your Hard Drive for More Partition Space (Optional).

How to Partition your Hard Drive for Ubuntu.

What We’ll Cover – A step-by-step Guide to Dual-Booting Windows 10 and Linux N.B.: Most of the processes in this article take time to get done, so you need to be patient. Sometimes it can overwrite the existing OS and delete all your files. That’s because installing an OS is a risky process. But before that, you have to install Ubuntu on your Windows 10 PC.īefore you go through this process, you must backup your files. In this article, I will show you how to dual boot Windows 10 and the popular Ubuntu Linux distro. It's possible to have a Linux distro installed on a computer with Windows 10 preinstalled.

Update UEFI:NTFS' NTFS drivers to v1.4 and exFAT drivers to v1.You don’t have to have two different computers to use Linux and Windows 10.

Improve Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim.

Allow the provision of an arbitrary local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog.

Added download link for Rufus 3.22 Beta.

It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO.

Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with:Īrch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, etc.

you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOSĭespite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!.

you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed.

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.).

It can be especially useful for cases where: Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

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