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<blockquote data-quote="Orchid" data-source="post: 1026369" data-attributes="member: 98800"><p>My research shows that you don't need a /boot partition when manually partitioning or Installing alongside Windows. Linux Mint (as well as any other Linux Distributions) will detect the Windows boot partition and install whatever boot files it needs to boot in that partition. If you were worried about the Linux installation affecting any Windows boot files, from my experience, there was no effect. Everything ran smoothly. However, if a warning/error occurs or it doesn't show you the option to boot into Linux, please let me or the MalwareTips community know.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When selecting the option "<strong>Install alongside Windows" </strong>at the top of the screen, there's an option for picking and choosing what hard drive you want to install Linux on. However, I have never installed Linux Mint on a separate hard drive before, so maybe someone else you have done this setup can help you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orchid, post: 1026369, member: 98800"] My research shows that you don't need a /boot partition when manually partitioning or Installing alongside Windows. Linux Mint (as well as any other Linux Distributions) will detect the Windows boot partition and install whatever boot files it needs to boot in that partition. If you were worried about the Linux installation affecting any Windows boot files, from my experience, there was no effect. Everything ran smoothly. However, if a warning/error occurs or it doesn't show you the option to boot into Linux, please let me or the MalwareTips community know. When selecting the option "[B]Install alongside Windows" [/B]at the top of the screen, there's an option for picking and choosing what hard drive you want to install Linux on. However, I have never installed Linux Mint on a separate hard drive before, so maybe someone else you have done this setup can help you. [/QUOTE]
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