If I do a dual boot of some kind of Ubuntu and Windows, do I get to keep the Windows part as it is now or is it a new installation of Windows?
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@Sagaliciouzzz Usually you can keep your old windows installation if you install a dual boot. During the installation process done from a Ubuntu USB stick you are asked how you'd like to proceed.
@weirdfish Oh, thank you! So, if I first install Ubuntu on a partioned drive, and then realize I want to remove Windows, should I then run the installation file again and choose to expand the partition to the whole drive?
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@weirdfish Oh, thank you! So, if I first install Ubuntu on a partioned drive, and then realize I want to remove Windows, should I then run the installation file again and choose to expand the partition to the whole drive?
@Sagaliciouzzz I don't know I never tried it this way. But I think it should be possible to expand the partition with Ubuntu on it from inside of the system.
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@Sagaliciouzzz If you consider to have both partitions with an encryption, then you should read this:
https://www.mikekasberg.com/blog/2025/05/19/dual-boot-ubuntu-25-04-and-windows-with-encryption.html@weirdfish That sounds interesting, I'll read up on it before the installation to figure out if I want the encryption or not.
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@Sagaliciouzzz I don't know I never tried it this way. But I think it should be possible to expand the partition with Ubuntu on it from inside of the system.
@weirdfish Sorry, I misread your first response, now I understand. Thank you for your help!
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If I do a dual boot of some kind of Ubuntu and Windows, do I get to keep the Windows part as it is now or is it a new installation of Windows? And if I want to make the full switch to Ubuntu, do I then get to keep the installation from the dual boot or do I have to install Ubuntu anew?
Okay, please help me. #TechSupport #Linux I installed pop_OS as a dual boot together with Windows. Now when I go to the file viewer and click "OS" I get an error saying "Error mounting /dev/sdb3 at /media/sagaliciouzzz/OS: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"
I'm guessing I should be able to click OS without an error message. Did I make the wrong choices when I partitioned my drive? How do I solve it?
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Okay, please help me. #TechSupport #Linux I installed pop_OS as a dual boot together with Windows. Now when I go to the file viewer and click "OS" I get an error saying "Error mounting /dev/sdb3 at /media/sagaliciouzzz/OS: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb3, missing codepage or helper program, or other error"
I'm guessing I should be able to click OS without an error message. Did I make the wrong choices when I partitioned my drive? How do I solve it?
Hah! By fiddling around in the Disks app I managed to get it working :3
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@steven_watt Ah, cool! Thanks for clarifying, and for helping me.
@Sagaliciouzzz By the way, if you want to remove the Windows partition at some point but you still need to use certain Windows apps, you can run Windows inside Linux (I use Gnome Boxes for this, but there are several different options).
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@Sagaliciouzzz By the way, if you want to remove the Windows partition at some point but you still need to use certain Windows apps, you can run Windows inside Linux (I use Gnome Boxes for this, but there are several different options).
@steven_watt That is interesting! Do you know if it's hard to remove the Windows partition?
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Hah! By fiddling around in the Disks app I managed to get it working :3
Okay, the next addition to "Saga does Linux": yesterday my Bluetooth mouse stopped working. Something about the Bluez daemon not running? After trying to do rfkill and unblock in terminal I read online that it was a known hardware problem with Asus. I did a cold boot and it worked again. Then I got problems with my wifi. Is that because both Bluetooth and my network are on 2.4ghz? My computer was quite far from the router at the time.
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@steven_watt That is interesting! Do you know if it's hard to remove the Windows partition?
@Sagaliciouzzz Should be very simple to delete the Windows partition and assign the free space to a Linux partition. Getting rid of the Windows option on the bootloader might be a little more complicated.
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@Sagaliciouzzz Should be very simple to delete the Windows partition and assign the free space to a Linux partition. Getting rid of the Windows option on the bootloader might be a little more complicated.
@steven_watt Cool! Do you mean the menu I can access when I press F2 while the computer is loading? If I boot without pressning F2 it loads pop_OS automatically.
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@steven_watt Cool! Do you mean the menu I can access when I press F2 while the computer is loading? If I boot without pressning F2 it loads pop_OS automatically.
@Sagaliciouzzz OK, it sounds like you're not using a bootloader. Do you have Windows and Linux installed on two separate drives?
