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Windows 10 was installed first on a non-formated disk using a non-UEFI BIOS. A partition table (type msdos) and a partition for Windows were created manually during the installation of Windows. Windows automatically created a 'System Reserved' partition (/dev/sda1) used for booting.
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I want to install Windows 10 on my laptop with Debian Jessie on it. I installed my Debian in EFI mode with graphical options. Could someone point me to a good tutorial, what I have to set, what to check, in order not to lose anything on my current installation of Debian, and at the end how to set GRUB with everything working without a problem and seamlessly with each other? I have at least 400 GB unused on my disk.
Install Debian Along Windows 10
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Assuming sda1 as / and sda2 as /home.
Use the classic procedure.
- Back up your data. Extra step required if you do not know what you are doing.
- Reduce sda1 and/or sda2. If you want to reduce sda1, you can do it booting LinuxLive.
- Install the chosen version of the Microsoft sofware distribution, obviously in partitioned space not in use by user data or a Linux distribution. Let it do changes to the booting system.
- Boot LinuxLive, mount sda1, chroot it, run the grub updater.
There are plenty of sources for shrinking partitions and inner file systems, LinuxLive, chroot and GRUB management.
If you have plenty of time, you can install VirtualBox and do all the procedure in a sandboxed environment for you to familiarize before doing the real thing.
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