![]() If using BitLocker to encrypt your windows volumes, Then decide if this is going to need to be required moving forward. ![]() Skip this if there's already room for Gentoo partitions.īitLocker users: make a backup of your BitLocker recovery key NOW ![]() To disable Fast Startup, see here for Windows 8 and here for Windows 10. Even if you do not intend to share filesystems, the EFI System Partition is likely to be damaged on an EFI system. Without it, Windows' filesystems are not unmounted even when you're using Linux, so editing Windows files can result in data loss. It is strongly recommended to disable "Fast Startup", aka "hybrid shutdown" or "hybrid boot" in Windows. ![]() If the drive is empty, try installing Windows before installing Linux. On the other hand, ARM devices with windows 8 or later preinstalled are forbidden from allowing the user to disable secure boot. That means that any AMD64 computer with windows 8 or later preinstalled, has to be capable of disabling secure boot, and mange the secure boot keys from the UEFI System settings. Microsoft dictates the requirements that any computer bearing the windows logo has to follow. Please read this to learn how to enable and disable Secure Boot for your UEFI system settings (also called BIOS) This guide assumes you have a computer with Windows 7 or later installed on a GPT-partitioned drive and booting in UEFI mode. 2 Optional: Download and install rEFInd in Windows.
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