This is a static archive of the old Zorin Forum.

The information below may be outdated. Visit the new Zorin Forum here ›

If you have registered on the old forum, you will need to create an account on the new forum.

help newbie

bohemond

Sun Oct 29, 2017 9:04:01 pm

hello I suffered a stroke 4 years back. I got Zorin up and running on back my windows that great but thing I have not figured out how do use dual boot on my Window 10.

Swarfendor437

Mon Oct 30, 2017 10:00:26 pm

OK, my best advice to you is to change settings in the BIOS to Legacy or Mixed Mode (UEFI/Legacy) before installing but first things first.

1. Use Windows Disk Management to automatically shrink your C:\ Drive after running chkdsk and Defrag.

2. In the free space that remains, use Windows Disk Manager to create an Extended Partition.

3. Insert your Zorin disk and use GParted to create:

a. 512 Mb /boot partition formatted to Ext4 - this is where GRUB for Zorin should reside.

b. Make a 30720 Mib Primary partition after /boot and mark this as '/' also formatted to Ext4.

c. At end of extended partition, create a 'swap area' that equals the amount of physical RAM in your computer.

d. Of the space that is left create a '/home' partition formatted to Ext4

e. Install Zorin choosing the something else method but do so from live disk environment desktop - run the installer from there.

4. Reboot into Windows 10 and turn off hidden power options - these are the settings that you don't normally access that put the drive to sleep for faster boot times - with this enabled you will never get Zorin to boot. Also turn off fast boot in BIOS if it is there.

5. Go to NeoSmart (https://neosmart.net/) and download the free version of EasyBCD - use this to modify your Win10 BCD boot loader in order to add Zorin as an option at boot time - check out my dual boot scenario with Windows 7 as to how this works:

https://vimeo.com/110085401

and Matthew Moore's video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlTgaWs9BD0

MBMz10

Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:23:28 am

Hi Swarfendor437, I suspect bohemond may have Zorin already installed but just cant figure out how to start Windows, however it is a little unclear, perhaps English is not bohemond main language.

Hi bohemond, if you already have Zorin installed with windows (dual boot) then you should see a menu soon after turning on your machine, the menu will remain for about 10 seconds, use the UP and Down arrows on your keyboard to change from Zorin to Windows in that menu and then press the Enter key.

If it is too fast for you just press the Down Arrow as soon as you see the menu and the countdown timer will stop giving you more time to choose.

Swarfendor437

Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:48:53 pm

Hi MBMz10, if bohemond has Win10 he won't be seeing GRUB. He's probably installed but can only boot to Windows. ;)