Install Ubuntu Linux Alongside Windows 8 in 1. Introduction. One of the most talked about topics of the last year has been the Windows 8 debacle and how it is now much more difficult to install Linux because of the UEFI secure boot system. I have just obtained my first laptop that contains Windows 8 and therefore my first laptop with UEFI and secure boot enabled. A review of Ubuntu 1. Before you start it might be worth reading the latest review of Ubuntu 1. Windows 8. 1 is something you want to do. The hardware. The hardware that I used to compile this guide is the Dell Inspiron 3. Argos. The Dell Inspiron 3. RAM, an Intel core I3 processor, a 1 terabyte hard- drive and a 1. Strategy. The actual strategy for installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 isn’t much different to installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 7, Vista or even XP. There are just a couple of extra hurdles along the way. Bonjour, Voila, j'ai un problème de wifi sur mon ordinateur portable toshiba satellite. - premièrement le voyant de la wifi n'est pas allumé.Backup your Windows partitions. Shrink the Windows partition. Create a bootable USB drive with Ubuntu on it. Turn off fast boot and Disable secure boot. Run the Ubuntu installer. Partition the empty space (created after shrinking Windows partition)Complete the installation. Reboot into the Ubuntu Live image. Run the boot repair. Test that everything works. Backup your Windows partition. This is the most important step in the whole process, especially if you harbour any hopes of booting into Windows again should the worst happen. It used to be the case that when you bought a computer you received a set of disks or a CD that had a rescue image on it. If the computer failed all you had to do was insert the disks or the CD and your computer would be restored as if it had just been delivered. Computer manufacturers then took the step of creating rescue partitions on hard drives but now some have even stopped doing that. Even if your computer manufacturer did take the step of creating a rescue partition, because you are going to be messing around with the partition editor it would be a great idea to make sure you have recovery media that isn’t in any way connected to the hard drive that you are partitioning. Regardless of restoring to factory settings you will want to back up all those pictures, videos and all those songs you downloaded from i. Tunes. Do not skip this step unless you have recovery media. As I am using a Dell I have two methods available to me to create recovery media and I am going to document both of them here. Toshiba How-To Videos VISIT Toshiba How-To Videos. Toshiba has over 100 videos to provide How-To help on your most common questions and solutions. I have reinstalled the driver twice I think. But in past not now. & there is no yellow unknown WiFi adapter in device manager. Anything else you have faced like this??? The chances are that the manufacturer of your computer has also provided software for creating recovery media. It is worth spending the time looking at the options available to you. You should backup your computer anyway. Whether you intend to follow through with this guide or not and whether you decide Linux is or isn’t for you I cannot stress enough the importance of creating recovery media. If you still do not believe me about how hard it is to get the recovery media after the event go to Google (who aren’t in any way evil) and try searching for recovering Windows 8 on a Dell, HP, Toshiba etc. You will probably end up paying for support. Create recovery media using Dell’s recovery tools. To open the Dell Backup and Recovery software move your mouse to the top right corner within Windows 8 and this will bring up the search icon. Click on the search icon and start typing “backup”. The “Dell Backup and Recovery” software will be the only option listed. As you can see there is a large exclamation mark next to “Recovery Media”. This icon appeared because at that point in time I had not created any recovery disks meaning that should the worst happen I was on my own. If you see a large exclamation mark and a big orange status message saying “At Risk” it seems prudent to do something about that. Clicking on the “Recovery Media” option displays the screen above. You have two options: Factory Backup. Apps & Drivers. You can also decide the location to backup to. You can choose either DVDs or a USB drive. If you are smart you will do both. Run the “Recovery Media” option once and backup to DVDs and then run it again and backup to USB. Imagine you backed up to DVDs and then decided to restore from them later on. DVDs have a habit of getting scratched and generally speaking you will need 2 or 3 DVDs which means there is more risk of a failure. Backing up to USB as well as DVD means you have hedged your bets. You could of course just back up to USB but USB drives have the habit of getting lost or re- used for another purpose when you realise you need to transfer data from point A to point B. Now I will point out that this process only backs up the Windows 8 system files in order to get Windows 8 back in the event of a failure. This does not backup all your pictures, documents and videos etc. I will come to that later on. All you need to do to backup to DVD is insert the first disc and then press “Start”. It takes a while to perform this process but it is definitely worth it. Just let it happen, go and get a coffee and watch a bit of television. Check back occasionally though because you will need to swap discs. Once you have finished backing up to DVD repeat the process but backup to USB. After running the “Factory Backup” click on the “Apps & Drivers”. Now insert a blank DVD and click “Start”. Again the process will take a little while but at least you will have a backup of all the applications that were installed when you bought the computer. Creating recovery media using Window’s 7 tools. Now the first backup section was a little bit specific to Dell computers. Allowing for the fact that you may not be using a Dell computer this section shows how to create a system image using the Windows 7 File Recovery tools. I wonder why I couldn’t find a Windows 8 one?). To get to the Windows 7 recovery tools move the mouse to the top right corner and then select the search icon again. Click on the “settings” option and then type “recovery”. The option for “Windows 7 Recovery” will appear. Clicking on this option will display the above window. There are 2 options here: Create a system repair disc. Create a system image. The system repair disc will boot into Windows recovery mode. Choose this option first and insert a blank DVD and then create the repair disc. The system image takes a copy of all the selected partitions and therefore you can restore your computer to the state it is in at the moment the backup is taken which means all your documents, pictures and videos etc will be safely backed up as well. You can schedule a system image backup at regular intervals so that you get regular backups). When you create the image you will be shown the backup location where the image will be saved and the partitions that will be backed up. Now I highly recommend using external storage for this purpose. An external hard drive is great for this sort of thing but be careful. I have had external drives that corrupted the image due to the nature of pulling out the USB cable before it was ready.(Yes I am aware that was a dumb thing to do)After clicking “Start Backup” the usual random green progress bar starts. We are all aware at this point that you have to wait an indeterminate period of between 5 minutes and 4 years for the green bar to reach the end and even when it does there is no guarantee it is the end of the process. When you have finished creating the system image you are asked once again if you want to create a system repair disc. I don’t want to sound like your mum but you really should do this. Shrink the Windows partition. Windows is like an infestation of cockroaches. Cockroaches will keep filling up space until it runs out and will try and find some more space. Windows is built to believe that all the available disk space belongs to it and therefore there is no spare space for another operating system. To get around this issue there is a tool available within Windows that lets you shrink the Windows partition (or indeed any other partition on the disk). To be able to shrink the Windows partition you will need to run the “Disk Management” tool. To do this move your mouse to the top right corner and click on the search icon. Now click the settings icon and start typing “disk”. Click on the option “Create and format hard disk partitions”. As you can see the Dell Inspiron by default has a busy looking disk layout. The operating system is on drive C and is called OS. This is the partition that needs to be shrunk in order to make space for Ubuntu.
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