Hi, I just tried to install opensuse and it failed. I have a 120gb SSd half of it is occupied by a Windows partition the other half is unallocated. When I tried to install suse onto the unallocated space of the ssd it said the drive needs an EFI something or other and it didn’t have one so one will be created. It then said all other partitions on this drive (my windows partitio) must be selected for deletion!
How do I install suse without deleting my Windows partition?
What windows version is installed in your machine?
If it is windows 7 you can probably ignore the EFI boot warning atleast
it worked here on my side. I don’t know about windows 8
as I have no idea about it.
What I did was i used the partitioning for expert and ignored the
boot EFI warning. Before the installation starts and the boot configuration etc.
was presented by the installation dvd. I reconfigured the boot EFI to use grub2
and proceed with the installation.
This is probably the way if you don’t want to touch your existing windows os.
As an aside.
Please give a good information of your machine so help will be much better.
Do you have a EFI BIOS? Was Windows installed under UEFI or legacy (ie BIOS mode)?
You may need to boot the install in legacy mode rather then EFI mode.
I don’t know how to do that 
It’s Windows 8. I do have EFI bios and Windows was installed while that was active (didn’t know you could go back to the old bios). And I don’t know how to do that either.
Hi,
I found a screenshots of how the installer works
http://desktoplinuxreviews.com/opensuse-reviews/opensuse-13-1-kde/
It will give you ideas how it work.
You have windows 8 installed sorry I haven’t use that os, maybe others can help you
in that area.
As for booting the cd/dvd in legacy mode, in my machine, when I turn it on I will press the
ESC key and I can choose whether to boot the cd/dvd iso in EFI and legacy mode.
With the windows 7 before I wiped it on my machine I was not successful in installing
openSUSE in legacy mode. I have to boot using EFI then like I said on my first post
reconfigured grub-efi and use grub2. I can use grub-efi but I always have to press ESC
then choose openSUSE to boot and during those time my only interest with the windows 7
is to use it for bios upgrade then later on I wiped it on my machine.
You don’t specifically say it, but I assume W8(.1?) was preinstalled on this computer?
If yes, you do have UEFI booting enabled and your disk is GPT formatted. Also, SecureBoot is enabled unless you changed it yourself (which is trivial - changing from UEFI/GPT to CMS/MBR requires more effort and a W8.x installation DVD). This is a fine starting point for a dual-boot installation with Linux.
If no, you have whatever environment you chose for W8.x to have when you installed it. In that case, you should inform us of what you selected. Then we can take it from there.
The remainder of my suggestion is based on that W8.x was preinstalled, and that you have not made any particular confiuration changes afterwards.
If you have W8, you can see my how-to here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/487837-how-dual-boot-preinstalled-windows-8-linux-uefi-etc. There, openSUSE 12.3 is the target, but the difference from openSUSE 13.1 isn’t significant when it comes to installing. The instruction would be as in the how-to: Follow the manual :). However, with 13.1 there is no need to check a “SecureBoot” item - 13.1 detects SecureBoot by itself.
If you have W8.1, you should see this comment before looking up the how-to above: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/492573-windows-8-1-dual-booted-opensuse-13-1-a#5
I do not cover SSD specifically in either of these, but it should not pose any problems as such. Nor do I cover using more than a single disk (SSDs often appear in pair with an ordinary HD or as a HD cache in laptops). By itself, none of these should pose any problems, but your setup may still introduce items that need attention. Let us know if that appears to be the case.
SSD optimization in Linux can be done afterwards, but I have no SSD myself and thus no experience in that area. There are threads in this forum covering SSDs already, and you may look them up. If you do not find anything you can use, open a new thread after (a presumably successful) installation.
Read through all of it, then see if you can make it work. Let us know how it works out.
Good luck!
dayfinger
On Tue 28 Jan 2014 01:46:02 PM CST, dayfinger wrote:
Astralogic;2619941 Wrote:
> It’s Windows 8. I do have EFI bios and Windows was installed while
> that was active (didn’t know you could go back to the old bios). And
> I don’t know how to do that either.
You don’t specifically say it, but I assume W8(.1?) was preinstalled on
this computer?
If yes, you do have UEFI booting enabled and your disk is GPT formatted.
Also, SecureBoot is enabled unless you changed it yourself (which is
trivial - changing from UEFI/GPT to CMS/MBR requires more effort and a
W8.x installation DVD). This is a fine starting point for a dual-boot
installation with Linux.
If no, you have whatever environment you chose for W8.x to have when you
installed it. In that case, you should inform us of what you selected.
Then we can take it from there.
The remainder of my suggestion is based on that W8.x was preinstalled,
and that you have not made any particular confiuration changes
afterwards.
If you have W8, you can see my how-to here: http://tinyurl.com/la4dt6p.
There, openSUSE 12.3 is the target, but the difference from openSUSE
13.1 isn’t significant when it comes to installing. The instruction
would be as in the how-to: Follow the manual :). However, with 13.1
there is no need to check a “SecureBoot” item - 13.1 detects SecureBoot
by itself.
If you have W8.1, you should see this comment before looking up the
how-to above: http://tinyurl.com/m2s7uns
I do not cover SSD specifically in either of these, but it should not
pose any problems as such. Nor do I cover using more than a single disk
(SSDs often appear in pair with an ordinary HD or as a HD cache in
laptops). By itself, none of these should pose any problems, but your
setup may still introduce items that need attention. Let us know if that
appears to be the case.
SSD optimization in Linux can be done afterwards, but I have no SSD
myself and thus no experience in that area. There are threads in this
forum covering SSDs already, and you may look them up. If you do not
find anything you can use, open a new thread after (a presumably
successful) installation.
Read through all of it, then see if you can make it work. Let us know
how it works out.
Good luck!
dayfinger
Hi
If it’s Windows 8, then if you don’t upgrade now to 8.1 before the
windows install, then install openSUSE, then try to upgrade to 8.1 it
will fail and/or corrupt the openSUSE install since it creates an
update partition…
–
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Hi,
How did you arrive at that ?
I wonder !
Which installation media have you been using ?
A live system, or the 64bit installer DVD ?
Good luck
Mike
Hi Malcolm !
Really bad news !
Mike
On Tue 28 Jan 2014 09:46:01 PM CST, ratzi wrote:
Hi Malcolm !
malcolmlewis;2620061 Wrote:
> Hi
> If it’s Windows 8, then if you don’t upgrade now to 8.1 before the
> windows install, then install openSUSE, then try to upgrade to 8.1 it
> will fail and/or corrupt the openSUSE install since it creates an
> update partition…
Really bad news !
Mike
Hi
Yup, been there done that, plus didn’t have a big enough partition
selected was only 80GB… so the op has a 120GB, would be wise to do
this first, then shrink it down with the windows tools.
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I’m actually thinking of trying a different distro, this is too complicated.
Well, when I installed windows my main SSD drive was completely empty of partitions so I just created one that took up half the drive (during the windows installation).
I’m pretty sure it’s an installer DVD but I don’t really know, it’s filename is “openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso”.
That is your choice, but you will have the same UEFI/CSM conflict-potential with whatever Linux you choose to use. That also goes for an upgrade from W8 to W8.1 if that is relevant (you haven’t said which version you have, but since you obviously start with a blank SSD, I would guess that you have W8.1, making the upgrade-part irrelevant). In addition, you need to adjust W8 for it to be able to coexist with another OS.
All of this will be needed with no regard to the Linux distribution you choose. Unfortunately, that also means that you have to do some sort of knowledge-gathering in order to succeed with W8/Linux dual-boot.
That’s a very good starting point for a dual-boot solution! But your installing Windows 8(.1?) from DVD also allow more choices than vendor preinstalls (which are more predictable due to Microsoft’s Windows licensing terms). So, to be able to help out, we need to understand your starting point better. Please see below.
That is the preferred and generally recommended installation medium. Some do transfer it to USB, which will install a little faster, but I have always used the DVD medium.
We need to establish whether you installed W8 under UEFI or CSM, and (if it was UEFI) whether SecureBoot was enabled or not.
Since Windows does not support MBR from UEFI and similarly, doesn’t support GPT from CSM mode, we can use your disk’s partitioning setup as an indicator of whether you used UEFI or CSM when installing W8. Here is one way of doing that:
From Windows 8 Desktop:
<WindowsKey>-X —> Command Prompt (Admin)
diskpart
list disk
exit
exit
Example from one of my test-installations (not a dual-boot setup, it is W8.1 under VMWare Workstation 10 - W8 and W8.1 are similar):
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600
Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: W81PRO64VM
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 50 GB 15 GB *
DISKPART> exit
Leaving DiskPart...
C:\Windows\system32>exit
An asterisk in the GPT-column indicates that you are running GPT.
If that is so in your case, you installed W8 in UEFI mode.
If not, you installed W8 in CSM mode.
If you do not have UEFI/GPT, you do not have SecureBoot either.
If you do have UEFI/GPT, you should enter your BIOS/UEFI setup and look for a SecureBoot alternative - and see whether it is enabled or not.
[LIST]
If it is enabled, then fine.
If disabled, enable it, save/exit the UEFI/BIOS configuration menu, and try booting W8.
[LIST]
If it succeeds, you installed W8 having SecureBoot enabled.
If it does not succeed, you need to disable SecureBoot to get W8 going again (or reinstall W8 with SecureBoot enabled).
[/LIST]
[/LIST]
Linux should be installed using the same mode as you did W8 (still, this will be the same no matter what Linux you choose).
Also, with no regard to Linux of choice (or another, parallel Windows-installation, for that matter), you should at minimum make sure to disable Windows 8 Fast-start as I explain in the how-to. See here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/487837-How-to-Dual-boot-(preinstalled)-Windows-8-and-Linux-UEFI-etc#4, the “Preparing Windows 8 for dual-booting”, item 4). I will also think that you are interested in Part 6 of the how-to.
CSM installed W8:
My Linux/W8 dual-boot how-to does not cover CSM installation. However, if you did follow my minimum recommendations above, you should now be fine to commence installing (any) Linux according to its installation instructions. openSUSE isn’t particularly complex in that regard.
UEFI/GPT-installed W8:
If you do have UEFI/GPT installation, you can go ahead as I advise in my previous posting in this thread, but since you already did limit W8’s disk space, you obviously should disregard the part about shrinking W8 disk space. Also, openSUSE 13.1 detects SecureBoot installation (or not) automatically, so you do not need to do anything particular in that regard. Just install Linux using the same SecureBoot status as you did W8.
Later on (if you installed using SecureBoot), you can enable/disable SecureBoot as you wish for both OS-es, and any setting will work for either OS. Again, this will be common to any Linux.
Note:
Not all Linux-es do support SecureBoot yet, though, but openSUSE does - among others.
Good luck with your installation and choice of Linux!
dayfinger
I read the link you posted but I don’t quite know what to do next. I typed those diskpart commands into the command prompts and NONE of my drives are labelled as GPT. I do NOT haveW8.1 and I will be very happy to NEVER upgrade from 8.0.
So I need to figure out if I have SecureBoot enabled or disabled right? Do I need to enable/disable it?
Disable it you can always turn it back on later
Your answer says MBR is in effect on your disks. That means CSM is effective, and SecureBoot is out of scope. You cannot enable nor disable it.
However: I’m a little confused now, as AFAIKS the information provided is inconsistent. (I am NOT in any way suggesting you are not describing what you are experiencing, I am just summing it up to this point).
… and thank you for specifying W8 as opposed to W8.1. MS did make it difficult for everyone with that version numbering, but then they probably didn’t originally plan for W8.1 either…
Item 1 tells me you have UEFI active, item 2 tells me W8 was installed in CSM mode, since MBR is in effect on your disks. Item 3 suggests UEFI is active.
So, which is it? Do you have some sort of both UEFI and CSM active at the same time (UEFI implementations like that do exist)? We need to isolate that, and stop guessing.
Item 4 also tells me we need more info in order to give useful advice, and I suggest we take a step back to establish that:
The general concept is that if you can provide a programmatic dump using a common program, that tells a lot more than textual excerpts since the readers of these forums know how these programs work, and often are able to extract info from it that the owner of the problem didn’t think of. “A picture says more than a 1000 words.” Think of such a dump as a picture.
Here’s what I’d like you to provide:
and (this somewhat duplicates the above, but not the link):
From the W8 Desktop:
I would also like to see the full output of the command you issued above + a little more. Here’s what I would like to see and how to transfer it into the forum:
From the W8 Desktop:
diskpart
list disk
Now, for each of the disks displayed here, execute the following - is to be replaced by each disk’s number as displayed by diskpart:
select disk <n>
list volume
Then you finish off with (NOTE: Only ONE “exit” this time, you should stay in the command prompt window):
exit
Here’s how to pick up all that info from inside the command prompt window:
Then we take it from there.
Be prepared to answer more questions, though:) . All my questions above are based on W8. You want to install Linux. Be prepared for remaining questions to be Linux based. Until you have sucessfullt installed Linux, a live DVD will be invaluabl in that regard. I suggest you download a 64-bit live DVD (KDE or GNOME according to your taste) in order to prepare for that.
dayfinger
I honestly have no idea.
Here’s a link to my system specs, provided by a neat free little program called Speccy. It should contain everything you need to know.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 8 Pro
Version 6.2.9200 Build 9200
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name CALVINS-PC
System Manufacturer MSI
System Model MS-7845
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU To be filled by O.E.M.
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. V1.8, 12/3/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.8
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer MSI
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.2.9200.16442"
User Name Calvins-PC\Calvin
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 15.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 13.0 GB
Total Virtual Memory 16.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 12.5 GB
Page File Space 100 MB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware Yes
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: CALVINS-PC
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 G Program Fil NTFS Partition 418 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C Windows NTFS Partition 59 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 4 D 2nd 2TB Sto NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E 2TB Storage NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 59 GB 1024 KB
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 1863 GB 1024 KB
DISKPART> select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 Primary 1863 GB 1024 KB
DISKPART> select disk 4
The disk you specified is not valid.
There is no disk selected.
DISKPART> select disk 5
The disk you specified is not valid.
There is no disk selected.
DISKPART>
Thank you! This is progress! Quite a box you’ve got there :)!
I’ve got a few notes already, though:
The msinfo32-dump states an MSI M-7845 system, but there lacks info to properly identify your system. The Speccy listing is better, and list a MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING motherboard. Is that correct? If you are unsure of the make/model of the motherboard, can you open the case and take a look in order to verify? That should be clarified before more info of that motherboard is dug out (but see below).
I’ve looked up that motherboard (MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING) here: http://msi.com/product/mb/Z87-GD65-GAMING.html#specification.
Here’s a short summary of the spec as I can tell from info gathered so far (assuming the mobo listed above is correct), to make it easier for others to join in and offer opinions:
Also, W8 SysInfo32 says Legacy BIOS is active (which makes SecureBoot irrelevant).
Still, openSUSE 64-bit install DVD want to put an EFI partition on one of the SSD disks (see OP).
Notes so far on your system:
Can I ask you to execute the diskpart part again? You didn’t run “list disk” nor “select disk 0” and you entered “list partition” instead of “list volume”. The rest seems fine for now.
Also, we need to have opensSUSE’s take of your system. Now is the time to boot up using the live-DVD. Fire up a terminal windows (equivalent to a W8 Command Prompt) and execute the following commands (don’t type the “#” or the text following it):
su - # This enables root access. "root" does not have password on the live DVD
parted -l #This is a lower case "L"
fdisk -l #This is a lower case "L"
-d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "UEFI" || echo "Legacy" # Determine whether UEFI or Legacy BIOS is assumed
# The "||" are two pipe characters, not upper case "i".
# Also note the spaces on the "inside" of the " " and " ]".
# They are part of the command! You may want to copy/paste this command.
Please copy everything from the terminal window and paste it here in the forum (as code).
OK, that’s all for now. I’ll log back in tomorrow.
dayfinger
Yes that’s correct.
The integrated GPU (HD4600) is disabled yes and raid is not activated.
If necessary I will buy another network card for use in Linux.
To be honest I thought you made a typo and meant to write “list partition” because every time I type ‘list volume’ it just lists the drives in my computer. Disk 0 was my DVD drive so I didn’t think that was necessary.
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.2.9200]
(c) 2012 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32>diskpart
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200
Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: CALVINS-PC
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 465 GB 46 GB
Disk 1 Online 119 GB 59 GB
Disk 2 Online 1863 GB 0 B
Disk 3 Online 1863 GB 0 B
DISKPART> select disk 0
Disk 0 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 G Program Fil NTFS Partition 418 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C Windows NTFS Partition 59 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 4 D 2nd 2TB Sto NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E 2TB Storage NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 G Program Fil NTFS Partition 418 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C Windows NTFS Partition 59 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 4 D 2nd 2TB Sto NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E 2TB Storage NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 2
Disk 2 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 G Program Fil NTFS Partition 418 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C Windows NTFS Partition 59 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 4 D 2nd 2TB Sto NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E 2TB Storage NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 3
Disk 3 is now the selected disk.
DISKPART> list volume
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 System Rese NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy System
Volume 2 G Program Fil NTFS Partition 418 GB Healthy
Volume 3 C Windows NTFS Partition 59 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 4 D 2nd 2TB Sto NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
Volume 5 E 2TB Storage NTFS Partition 1863 GB Healthy
DISKPART> select disk 4
The disk you specified is not valid.
There is no disk selected.
DISKPART>
I’m just burning the live dvd now, then I will post back with the output of those terminal commands.
Good news, upon booting the live DVD I discovered my internet works 
So my network hardware might be supported after all.
linux@linux:~> su linux:/home/linux # parted -l Model: ATA Samsung SSD 840 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 368MB 367MB primary ntfs boot, type=07 2 368MB 450GB 450GB primary ntfs type=07 Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDHP1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 128GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 64.0GB 64.0GB primary ntfs type=07 Model: ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA2 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ntfs type=07 Model: ATA ST2000DL003-9VT1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdd: 2000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary ntfs boot, type=07 Warning: Unable to open /dev/sr0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sr0 has been opened read-only. Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk! Model: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-221L (scsi) Disk /dev/sr0: 988MB Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/2048B Partition Table: unknown linux:/home/linux # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0xa6533a37 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 718848 879251456 439266304+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdc: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x9ec44f80 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 3907026943 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdb: 128.0 GB, 128035676160 bytes, 250069680 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0xa6533a2b Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 125036543 62517248 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdd: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0xeb102c3d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 * 2048 3907026943 1953512448 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT linux:/home/linux # -d /sys/firmware/efi ] && echo "UEFI" || echo "Legacy" UEFI linux:/home/linux #
Since the formatting is all messed up I will upload the output in a text file.
Two more things I want to mention. I don’t know if this is relevant or not but in my bios I found an option called “Boot Mode”, it has two settings “UEFI” and “Legacy+UEFI”, it is (and always has been) set to the latter.
Second thing is in the link you posted about getting things set up for dual booting. The part where it says go into Power Options to disable fast boot and hibernate I don’t have those two options so I can’t disable them.