Windows 10: Booting windows 10 with legacy mode on or off, for dual boot with Mint

I have a desktop with a SSD of 250 GB running windows 10, I tried putting it into legacy mode in BIOS for dual booting with Linux Mint. But when I restart to check it, I get error 1962, no operating system found.

I made a partition in C drive and installed Mint on it, but during boot up, I go straight to windows with no mint option.

I tried Windows 10 fast boot stopper from the tutorial here, maybe too late, it made no difference.

EasyBDC is blocked from Linux options in editing boot menu.

I don't want to lose windows 10, but would like Mint as well. Any experience or advice, is there a tutorial?

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Dual boot options- Ubuntu and Windows 10

Original Title[Dual Boot]

I have updated from windows 8.1 to Windows 10 quite recently, now I want to dual boot my laptop Dell Inspiron 3542, with Ubuntu. But the thing I heard all over the Internet is about the UEFI and Legacy Boot modes and mine is in UEFi mode. In the boot options
there is an option to change boot mode from UEFi to Legacy BIOS. Is it safe to do so. Doing so, does it help to dual boot with Ubuntu?

My boot mode is set to: UEFI with Legacy OPROM.

 

Windows 10 and my 8.1/Mint 17.1 dual boot

I currently dual boot Windows 8.1 and Mint 17.1. When I turn on my computer, I see GRUB with a choice of Mint or the Windows bootloader. During the set up of my dual boot, I used a method that installed Mint's bootloader to the Windows 8.1 EFI system partition
so that Mint boots in UEFI mode. Does the upgrade of Windows 10 install a new EFI partition and/or bootloader on an up-to-date Windows 8.1 machine? If so, is it possible to install Windows 10 to use the existing EFI partition for its own bootloader, preserving
the ability to access the Mint partition without the need to repair/reinstall GRUB? Thanks.

 

Hi there

Not sure why you'd want to double boot Linux Mint -- run it as a Virtual machine -- simple / easy and you can switch from one OS to the other without a re-boot.

Linux mint on a Virtual machine can easily run in 1GB of Virtual memory and say 12 - 20 GB GB of HDD space --better if stored on an SSD.

Use VBOX or VMPLAYER (both free) for installing the Linux VM. Linux mint usually works straight OOB. For VMPLAYER though your Windows 10 HOST machine must be 64 bit

- the GUEST (VM) can be either 32 or 64 bit.

You can also have fun with other Linux distros or even other versions of Windows using VM's --remember though a Windows VM needs a licence just like a Real machine. Linux distros are always free at consumer level.

Cheers
jimbo

 

In order to boot in Legacy BIOS mode (CSM) the SSD has to be partitioned as MBR. Since your system was set up as UEFI originally, it is partitioned using GPT and had an EFI System Partition. That's why legacy booting can't find the OS.