[xubuntu-users] Fwd: More Difficult to Dual-Boot Now

[Lee Gold]

I checked it all out, thanks. 

After taking a good look at Windows10 plus the hurdles now to dual
booting; I set the bios to legacy and formated and put on only Xubuntu. 

 Xubuntu works good on his new laptop - the user is not complaining.
  

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016, at 09:03 PM, Tong Sun wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Lee Gold - leegold at operamail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just tried to dual boot windows 10 and Xubuntu on HP Pavillion 15
> > laptop. So I'm a bit behind the times - there's a new bios system,
> > something called UEFI and this laptop along with Windows 10 seems to do
> > everything to prevent being extensible and more useful by preventing a
> > dual boot. Tried everything I could to make it work.
> >
> 
> Yeah, I know the pain, been there, done that.
> 
> 
> > So it's goodbye to Windows forever on this laptop - it's going to be ALL
> > Xubuntu !
> >
> 
> Not so fast, if you still need Windows. Have you check this out yet?
> 
> My Quest to Dual Boot EFI Windows 8 with Ubuntu
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L0obnZkzX7aFyWqmx6zS1CrXEH_X9rRJUnBYeWWjJgU/edit#heading=h.hjmzej1mnr0j>
> 
> Mind you, just as you've found, Windows now is doing everything to
> prevent
> you to dual boot, so it IS going to be a Royal PITA just to make it
> works.
> 
> YMMV. If you want to give it a try, everything you want to read have been
> collected into that loooong file. Good luck
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