Good day.

There is a laptop ACER Pentium quad quite new (CPU N3540 bought a year and a half ago). It was Windows-8 after the purchase, it upgraded to Windows-10-64 Home Edition. Now I need to install Linux in parallel with Windows. But so that Windows does not fly away (a). Once upon a time I worked with different double download managers. But that experience was sharply negative. The operating systems went off, the managers hung up and even messed up the disk and it was impossible to work at all. Tell me how it is now on this front. What are the good and workable managers double downloads? For some reason, there is no way to indicate in the laptop BIOS that there are several operating systems on the laptop. Although talk about the fact that the managers of dual downloads will be built into the BIOS, I heard.

Thank.

  • grub works as always. What you call “embedded in BIOS” is a newfangled thing called uefi. OSes do not fly away from the rough, (but here's the Windows installation you can demolish it), the disk does not spoil. But most importantly, first figure out whether you have gpt or not. - KoVadim
  • @KoVadim I'm afraid that if you start putting grub on top of Windows, Windows will fly off. Who has experience installing grub over Windows? Will everything be okay there? Moreover, I have a laptop and not a desktop, and in the laptop, iron is often non-standard. - pepsicoca1
  • "put rude on top of windows" is the wrong phrase. Do not get. The coarse consists of two parts: the loader (it’s there several hundred bytes and it overlaps the Windows one) and the actual coarse one, which is placed inside Linux. Therefore, the maximum - break the bootloader - KoVadim
  • @KoVadim So I’m afraid that when the Windows boot loader closes, then I won’t be able to start Windows. And stay without Windows, and without Linux. And I can not restore Windows, because from the hidden partition of the screw I’ve deleted a copy of Wines-8 during the upgrade to Wines-10. :-( - pepsicoca1
  • one
    rough can download windows. But if you are afraid, you can put Linux (or Windows) in the virtualbox and forget about fear? - KoVadim

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You can easily work in Windows & Linux , like operating systems that are installed in parallel on the HDD , or you can install VirtualBox & VMware Workstation in Windows , create a Linux guest OS.

You can work with the "virtual" OS calmly and almost fully (programming, design, layout). For starters, of course, I recommend a virtual machine for review.

If you decide to install two OSs in parallel, then select the hard disk partitions for each OS separately - for Linux OS - / swap - 2 GB, root directory / - min 20 GB, home directory / home - all the rest of the space. Under Windows, everything is simple, - the partition under the C drive: I recommend 60 Gb, and so on your discretion.

Next, install Windows first and then Linux . When installing Linux , the grub bootloader "sees" what is installed in parallel with Windows , and will indicate this in its settings. When rebooting, you can choose which OS to boot.

The most loyal and stable option. If, on the contrary, the Windows bootloader will overwrite the grub bootloader, and then you have to restore it.