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Linux to replace w10

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Hello everyone

Hoping to anticipate a "failure" of Windows 10, I would like to install Linux on my old laptop (Toshiba TIH0041200A).

I have managed to create a partition of 181 GB.

Now I would like to know how to install Linux (which I have used before) and be able to choose at startup between Windows 10 (C drive) or Linux (Y drive).

Thank you in advance for your solutions, and I'll respond to any details I may have missed.

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Winux01 Posted messages 207 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   14
 

Hello,

You don't seem to have a grasp of the basics; there are errors in your statements.

Linux is a kernel; when referring to Linux as an operating system, we're talking about "Linux distributions" by naming the one you want to install.

Moreover, we do not create a partition for disks; you're mistaking it with what Windows tells you, which doesn't use technical language.

The installation of Windows creates several partitions on a disk; what you falsely refer to as a C: drive is a partition named by Windows, readable by its file explorer; Linux has nothing to do with it. However, what you refer to as a Y: drive is still a partition named Y formatted by Windows that needs to be deleted and assigned to the partitions dedicated to your Linux distribution during its installation.

Linux does not name things the same way. For example, dev/sda is a Linux disk name.

To boot into Windows or Linux, Linux distributions sometimes offer to automatically create everything, including partitioning with the amount of data allocated as you wish, but there will no longer be the Windows bootable sector, replaced by the grub of Linux, so be careful; if you delete the Linux partitions, you will need to recreate the Windows boot partition.
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