Do i need to delete windows to run porteus?
Do i need to delete windows to run porteus?
Hello Porteusians /pɔ:tj uːʒ(ə)ns/ (I can only assume) i'm a new user allured by the promise of portability and dreams of an "on the go" OS, and im wondering if i need to delete my windows in order to run porteus
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Ed_P
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Do i need to delete windows to run porteus?
No Sire DCA you do not. A copy of options; install to a USB drive or install a boot menu system like Grub2Win and boot the ISO directly or an install on a new partition on the harddrive. 
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Rava
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Do i need to delete windows to run porteus?
To create a new partition on your hard drive, you can either use Windows to create the partition and then use Linux to change the partition type and format it into a Linux file system, or use Porteus on USB and run gparted (Main menu / system / gparted )
But you have to run Porteus in the mode where no internal hard disk got mounted or else fdisk or gparted would warn you to not make changes on a mounted drive. Doing so would result in data loss.
But you have to run Porteus in the mode where no internal hard disk got mounted or else fdisk or gparted would warn you to not make changes on a mounted drive. Doing so would result in data loss.
Cheers!
Yours Rava
Yours Rava
