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After this, can I use Windows 10?

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Yes. Windows 10 should be accessible through the GRUB2 menu (it's the first screen that greets you when you turn on your PC). Also make sure you installed both Ubuntu and Windows in UEFI mode or both in BIOS, because if they are different it will be difficult booting from one to the other.

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I have WIN10 and Linux on a dual boot. It's been a while since I opened up Linux. However, I can't seem to get it open. Can someone help?

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Best way is to use two separate drives and install the alternate to a drive that you can hook up to USB. Change boot order in bios. No operational conflicts.

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I have 3 partitions, C:/ D:/ and E:/...C:/ is for Windows 10...can install linux on D:/ or E:/ ?

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Linux will repartition your hard drive / SSD as C:\ (ntfs), D:\ (the file system you used for that partition), e:\ (the file system you used for that partition as well) and f:\ (linux, file system is ext4).

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Is it possible to encrypt the Ubuntu partition when installing it?

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No, but you can choose to have encrypted home directories. Your personal files would then be invisible from Windows.

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Will I lose all of my files on Windows 10 if I dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu?

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If you follow the directions correctly, no. You can dual-boot without deleting personal files.

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When I restart my laptop it just boots into Windows, when I check boot priority in bios, there's nothing Ubuntu related. Is there something I missed?

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Have you installed Windows first? If you have installed Windows after Ubuntu, the Windows Bootloader overwrites Grub, the Linux Bootloader(LILO, GRUB, and GRUB2 are mostly used in Linux) If you can find Grub in the Boot options, choose it and from there you can either boot into your Ubuntu or your Windows Installation. Otherwise, this link might be of some help: itsfoss[dot]com/no-grub-windows-linux/

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What should I do if after creating swap space the remaining area is "unusable"?

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Computers that came with Windows 10 are set to use UEFI mode by default. You either have an old computer, or you/whoever installed Windows 10 for you did so in legacy mode. This means you have an MBR partition table, which only supports up to four primary partitions. Possible solutions: 1. Switch to UEFI mode, and convert the disk to GPT. You can do this with the Windows 10 recovery disk and mbr2gpt 2. Delete one of the other partitions. The "recovery" partitions are safe to delete if you have a way to reinstall Windows (you should have a recovery disk, anyway) 3. Create a single 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 partition, and make 𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 partitions for swap and root inside it.

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