vhd on a second drive (multibay on a laptop) or partition using the WIM2VHD script. Enable TPM in BIOSīecause these instructions differ according to manufacturer and BIOS version, see instructions in your computer's manual or support website. See other post “How to use Windows Boot Manager to boot Linux”. Set up Windows Boot Manager to boot Linux Install Windows on the largest NTFS partition. Remain unencrypted while the latter will host Windows and will be encrypted when we activate Bitlocker. The actice partition will be used to boot the machine and will Create partitions for WindowsĬreate 2 primary NTFS-formatted partitions on the disk: one active, 1.5GB size minimum and another larger (all the rest for instance with a minimum of 8.5GB).
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See other post “ How to use Windows Boot Manager to boot Linux” Step 4. See other post “ How to use Windows Boot Manager to boot Linux” Step 3. Install Grub on the Linux partition (outside of MBR) Note: be sure to leave enough unpartitioned space for Windows Step 2. Note: a Bitlocker compatible machine is required. Used Disk Space Only option with allows for a much quicker encryption experience by only encrypting used blocks on the targeted volume.
Windows 7 Dual Boot Revisited with Bitlocker blog post has additioonal information and slightly different configuation Do you have additional information, for Windows "8" Beta perhaps? Feel free to join in and edit this article, see Gettingīitlocker Drive Encryption allows encryption of Windows partitions and provides a secure startup process when in use with a TPM (a crypto chip on the motherboard). This article is based upon and extends this blog postīuilding a dual boot system with Windows Vista BitLocker protection with TPM support. Or, you can continue to setup your machine for multi-boot. In Windows "8" Consumer Preview, you can instead useĬlient Hyper-V, turn your machine into a Hyper-V host, and then use VMs. IT Pros and developers often have to dualboot their machiens for dev/test, troubleshooting, teaching or other reasons.