How to Dual Boot Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Windows 11

Summary: We will demonstrate how to configure a dual-boot setup for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) outside of Windows 11.

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Hi guys, in this guide we will demonstrate how to configure a dual boot setup for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) outside of Windows 11.

For this to work, you need to have Windows 11 already installed on your computer. Next, you will need to create a separate partition on your hard drive on which you will install Ubuntu 22.04. We’ll include this knowledge, so don’t worry.

precondition:

Here’s what you need before setting up dual booting:

◈ A bootable USB drive for Ubuntu 22.04, you can go to the Ubuntu 22.04 download page
releases.ubuntu.com
to download the ISO image file of Ubuntu 22.04. Once the ISO image file is in place, grab a 16GB USB drive and use the Rufus application to make it bootable.

◈ Fast and stable internet connection

Step 1. Create a usable partition on your hard drive

As mentioned in the introduction, we first need to create a separate partition on the hard drive where we will install Ubuntu 22.04.

So, open the Disk Manager utility by pressing the Windows + R key combination.

In the dialog, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter.

The disk management console will display the current disk partitions, as you will see below. We will create a partition for installing Ubuntu by compressing “Volume E”. This may vary during your installation, but just follow along and you’ll get the general idea.

Therefore, right-click on the disk drive volume you want to shrink and select the Shrink Volume option from the popup menu.

A pop-up dialog will appear as shown below. Specify the size of the control to shrink (in MB), and click Shrink .

This is the space allocated for the Ubuntu 22.04 installation.

After shrinking the disk space, it will appear as Unallocated or Free Space as shown.

With space available, now insert the bootable USB drive into your PC and restart your system. Also, make sure to access the BIOS settings and modify the boot priority to make the USB drive the first priority. Save BIOS changes and continue booting.

Step 2. Start the installation

In the first screen, you will get the GRUB menu as shown. Select the first option, Try or Install Ubuntu, and press the ENTER key.

Ubuntu 22.04 will start loading as shown below. This will take up to a minute.

After this, the installer wizard will pop up, presenting you with two options: Try Ubuntu (Try Ubuntu) and Install Ubuntu (Install Ubuntu). Since our mission is to install Ubuntu, we choose the latter.

Next, choose your preferred keyboard layout and click the Continue button.

In the Updates and Other Software step, select Normal Installation to install the GUI version of Ubuntu, by checking the other remaining options to allow downloading of updates and installation of third-party for images, WIFI hardware and Packages for other utilities.

Next, click the Continue button.

The next step provides two installation options. The first option – Erase disk and install Ubuntu – completely wipes your drive and installs. But since this is a dual-boot setup, this option can be disastrous for your existing Windows installation.

So, select Something else and click the Continue button.

The partition table will show all existing disk partitions. So far, we only have the NTFS partition and the free partition we compressed earlier.

For Ubuntu 22.04, we will create the following partitions:

◈ /boot – 1 GB

◈ /home – 10 GB

◈ / – 12 GB

◈ Swap partition – 2 GB

◈ EFI – 300MB

To start using these partitions, click the “+” sign below the Free Space partition.

Fill in the details of the /boot partition as shown in the figure, then click the OK button.

Next, specify the /home partition and click the OK button.

Next, define the / (root) partition and click the OK button.

To define the swap space, set the size and select Swap area in the Use as: option.

Finally, if you are using UEFI boot mode, create an EFI system partition. We will allocate 300MB to the EFI partition.

The following image is a partition summary of our partition table:

To continue the installation, click Install Now. In the pop-up window shown below, click Continue to save the changes to disk.

Next, the installer wizard will automatically detect your location, just click the Continue button.

Next, create a login user by specifying the name, computer’s name, and password. Next click the Continue button.

At this point, the installer wizard will copy all Ubuntu files and packages to the manually created hard drive partition and install the necessary packages.

This process will take a long time, so be patient. In our instance, it took about 30 minutes.

After the installation process is complete, click the Restart Now button to restart the system.

At this point, remove your bootable USB drive and hit enter.

When the system reboots, you will find various options including Ubuntu and Windows 11.

Select “Ubuntu” to boot into your new Ubuntu 22.04 installation. To boot into Windows 11, select the entry labeled Windows Recovery Environment.

that’s it. We demonstrated how to dual boot Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04.

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