1

I just upgraded from HDD to SSD and I'm planning to do a dual boot in my machine. Is it possible to do it in a 256gb SSD? What is the best strategy partitioning for this?

  • Windows: (planned to install applications) Adobe applications (Editing) Microsoft Office
  • Ubuntu: Mostly applications needed for web development e.g apache, sublime

For movies and data, I have an external drive.

John Kenneth de Lara
  • 21

1 Answers1

2

Yes, it is possible. If you have already migrated or installed windows on SSD, try to shrink windows partition to maybe half of disk size or what size you prefer. I did it like: 100GB Win10 100 GB Linux mint ( based on ubuntu) and about 40GB Unallocated

After shrinking just burn ISO, boot from it and run installer. When it asks if you want to install it next to win or format disc, click to Install ubuntu next to... If you want to partition it yourself just press something else. you need ext4 partition for / (root) i prefer ext2 partition mounted to /boot ( about 1GB). If You're running on UEFI, just add EFI partition same size as /boot.

Click install. After installation simply reboot your pc and enjoy.

Renecekk
  • 21