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Linux mint do not see Windows Vista

Post by Yan200 » Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:45 am

I am installing Linux Mint on an old PC. I want to install it near Windows. But Linux in not seeing Windows. What to do?
P.S. I am sorry, my english is very bad

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Re: Linux mint do not see Windows Vista

Post by Pierre » Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:51 am

Hi Yan200,
welcome to our forum

what is your reason to keep that Windows Vista System
as that is an very old operating system, these days.

also2: most of the Vista PCs should convert to an 100% Linux System .. very easily . .

all of my Lenovo Laptops, were originally with an Windows Vista System,
and now they are all 100% an Linux machine.

Please edit your original post title to include [SOLVED] — when your problem is solved!
and DO LOOK at those Unanswered Topics — — you may be able to answer some!.

Re: Linux mint do not see Windows Vista

Post by Suwakoto » Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:53 am

The way Mint detects other systems (and is itself detected by the BIOS) is with something called GRUB. It contains the information about every system installed on the machine, but it has to be manually updated when these systems change. By default, you can do that with the command sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

In your case it’s a little different, because GRUB works best with Linux, and you need it to detect Windows. To do that, you need to install and enable something called an ‘os-prober’. In Mint, it is installed by default, so you just have to enable it, and you can do so by editing the ‘grub’ file found in /etc/default/ — for example with the command sudo nano /etc/default/grub — to include the following line at the end: GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false . You can use whichever text editor you want, but you’ll need root privileges to save the changes. Once that’s done, run the grub-mkconfig command again, and if all goes well, you should see the output mention Windows. Now, when you boot the computer, the GRUB menu will appear, letting you choose between Mint and Vista.

This all assumes that you want Linux Mint to be your primary operating system, while Windows Vista is something you boot into every once in a while. That’s because Mint will be the default option in GRUB; that is to say, if you don’t touch the computer, it’ll boot into Mint, and only choose Vista if you specifically tell it to. If you’d like to use Vista primarily and boot into Mint occasionally, it might be better to edit the boot options in your BIOS to prioritize Vista’s Boot Manager over Mint’s GRUB, and then modifying Boot Manager to detect your Linux installation.

Finally, like Pierre said, Vista is a very old system, that’s reached its End-of-Life many years ago. It is both unsafe and unpractical to use it, as it doesn’t get any more security updates, and most programs dropped support for it. Therefore, if you want to use Windows, it is advisable to download a fresh ISO of Windows 10 from Microsoft’s website and install that, instead. The upgrade is free. The only reason to not upgrade would be if your computer cannot handle 10, but then I would question how it handles Vista and why it doesn’t still use XP.

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[Solved] Triple Boot Windows Vista, Linux Mint 12, and LMDE

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[Solved] Triple Boot Windows Vista, Linux Mint 12, and LMDE

Post by cwwgateway » Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:07 pm

Hi
I have a Windows Vista machine, and I would like to run Linux Mint on it, as well as windows vista, apart from what I have already done with Mint4win. I would like to have the main release as well as the LMDE XFCE release, as I would like to try XFCE. I know about partitioning, but I am not too familiar with GRUB and how to configure it for triple boot. I don’t know if I should just skip LMDE for now until I get an external hard drive and install it on that so I don’t break my system. I don’t know how to install onto an external hard drive either so if you think that that’s what I should do, it would be helpful to explain how. As far as I have looked, there haven’t been any questions quite like mine, but there probably are. Sorry for posting the same question if that is true. Thank you.

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Re: Triple Boot Windows Vista, Linux Mint 12, and LMDE

Post by xenopeek » Tue Nov 15, 2011 3:36 am

IIRC mint4win puts a big file on your Windows partition, and adds the GRUB bootmanager to the MBR so you can choose which OS to boot. If you are serious about Linux, I’d suggest you uninstall mint4win. As GRUB bootmanager remains in the MBR, but the configuration files are now removed (from the uninstall of mint4win), you can not boot until you install a new bootmanager. Next step will fix that. Alternatively, you can keep mint4win but it might give you a headache thinking of which OS is where (In that case, take a copy of /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which perhaps you may need to manually add the mint4win to GRUB later.)

Anyway, whether you keep mint4win or not, the next step is the same. Install the next Linux Mint version, the one you intend to keep as your main installation. This will install GRUB again to the MBR.

After that, proceed to install the next Linux Mint version, the one you want to try but probably won’t keep as main installation. From what I understand that would be LMDE XFCE for you. Make sure to select manual partitioning when you come to the allocate drive space step, and make sure to select to install GRUB not to /dev/sda (the MBR) but to /dev/sdaX (where X is the number of the partition where /boot resides for this installation). That way LMDE XFCE doesn’t hijack the GRUB from your other Linux Mint installation.

After this, boot into your first Linux Mint version, and run «sudo update-grub2». This should detect the other operating systems you have installed, and add them to the menu. Alternatively, you may want to fine-tune this and use the Boot Repair utility (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot- . _in_Ubuntu).

You can repeat the above step to add other Linux distros. Just make sure to install their bootmanagers to their own partitions, and not to /dev/sda MBR.

As for partitioning, I’d suggest you keep Windows Vista on its own primary partition (if you must ), have a primary partition for swap (which you can share across all your Linux installations!), perhaps have a primary data partition that you share across the Linux installations for your personal files, and have the last partition be extended and in that create the logical partitions for the various Linux distro installations.

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Windows Vista

Post by Windows_Addict » Fri Aug 01, 2014 2:17 pm

I noticed a couple of other threads on problems installing Linux Mint 17 but none exactly like mine.

I have a Dell computer (please don’t hate me, it was a gift) with 3 Gb. or ram and a 250 Gb. drive. It came with Windows Vista installed and I’ve been keeping it updated with all the new fixes.

I decided to install Linux Mint 17 after watching a friend use hers so I burned a CD and went through the installation process. When it got to the screen where you can choose to erase Windows, I chose the LVM option (#3, I think).

Once it rebooted, I got a grub menu with just Linux (and memory checks). I read another thread here about running su update-grub so I did. Now I don’t even see the grub menu, it just boots into Linux.

I booted with a Partition Magic CD and it shows Linux on sda1 (using 250 Gb.) and another drive (I presume Vista) on sda2), also 250 although I had two logical drives on it.

My first question is how to switch from one OS to the other. When I choose F12 on boot, it just shows the drive but doesn’t specify any partition or way to choose the OS.

Another problem is what happened to the Wi-Fi? In previous installations (9 to 14), it almost always just found my network. Now, I don’t even see a Wi-Fi option, just hard wired and VPN.

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[SOLVED] Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

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[SOLVED] Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by Bude » Fri Jul 01, 2011 3:59 pm

So i was recently pushed into mint and i am honestly impressed. So basicly what i want is a dual boot system of Vista and Mint.
I will whipe my whole HDD (after a backup ofcourse) — 2 times 500GB. How do I best partitioning my drives ?
I already done this, but just very easy windows partitioning.
Could someone give me kind of a template ? (The only thing i know is, that i need 1.5x my RAM as swap)

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Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by AdamS » Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:08 pm

In front of me is a HP pavilion that just walked in the door. Client has 2 fake anti viruses infecting it.

recover vista to factory — resize the drive to give say 60 GB to vista and the rest to mint 11.

Mint 11 then will be installed 2 GB swap and the rest to root / . using the custom Install option.

Done this hundreds of times, but I thought the windows vista to Linux mint 11 topic fit to the T lol.

Any other questions just ask.

if ya have a windows license, ideal solution is a dual boot best of both worlds.

Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by Habitual » Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:20 pm

How’d you «rate» a name change?

Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by AdamS » Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:28 pm

Habitual wrote: Hey Hinckley Utah

How’d you «rate» a name change?

it is a 140 year old town lol

Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by Bude » Fri Jul 01, 2011 4:31 pm

20 GB — Mint
60 GB — Vista
4 GB — Swap

Can i partitioning the rest like Games , Documents , etc. and use these by both OSs ?
Did I forget smth ?

Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by Bude » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:19 am

*silent bump*
seems like this would not work.

I also know that i need a swap a root and a home. Do these need to bee on one harddisk ?
Does this work ?

HDD1
60 GB Vista
440 GB Home

HDD2
20 GB root
4 GB swap
474 GB other windows shit

Re: Windows Vista & Linux Mint 11 — newbie here

Post by SimonTS » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:29 am

It is entirely up to you how you do it but, as no-one else has replied, I’ll let you know how I would use that setup.

sda
sda1 Primary 100GB NTFS Windows — This will be marked as ‘bootable’ for Windows benefit
sda2 Extended 100GB
sda3 Logical 20GB EXT4 Mint11 — Mount this as ‘/’ for your root filesystem
sda4 Logical 10GB swap swap — 10GB is probably overkill, but I don’t know how much RAM you have and this would allow you to go to 8GB and still hibernate if you wanted to. I use 10GB as it’s a nice round number
sda5 Primary 300GB NTFS Documents — Create this to take up the rest of the space. You can configure Windows to run your ‘My Documents’ from this partition (Drive D:) and set up symbolic links from Mint to the correct places easily.
I know that there is spare space on sda, but it means that if you wanted to install more Linux systems for testing etc then you can. You only really need a maximum of 20GB for Linux if you are running all your saved files on a different partition but I do not tend to mount my /home separately, preferring to symlink instead. If you know that you will never use another Linux distro then make the ‘Documents’ partition bigger, but I would certainly leave 1 20GB hole there — just in case.

sdb
sdb1 Primary 500GB NTFS Games — Windows will call this Drive E: — you can install all your Windows games etc here without any problem.

As I said — that’s just how I would do it.

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