Dual Boot windows 7 and Mint issues!

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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I am trying to dual boot Linux mint and Windows 7 together, but when i go to my boot menu, my live usb does not show up. If there is anyone who knows what the problem is and how to fix it, it willl be greatly appreciated:)

 

-Frosty

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Are you sure the live USB works?  Try it on a different computer.  What method did you use to put it on the USB?  You have to actually burn it with a program like ISO to USB; you can't just copy the files and expect it to boot.  

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You have to use a program like Unetbootin to create a live usb. I've never had this problem happen to me before. 

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The USB is probably under "hard disk drives" and not under any USB media in the boot menu. Expand the "hard disk" category, it will probably show "Generic USB hard drive", select that, and you're sorted...

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And if you manage to boot. Linux mint has a nice way to make the dual boot system. After you boot into the USB-stick, choose (where there was "graphical install" like on other distros) Default. Than you will get into a mint desktop, but the desktop is not installed yet! On the desktop there is a CD displayed which says: install operating system, or something like that. Double click on it. Later you get the option to make the dual boot system automatically, or manually. I prefer manually, so you can manage your space.

(manually) Make sure you make one partition for the ext4 file system (the best) for the linux OS, and don't forget to thick the format square, and then choose the  /  sign (to say what it is going to be. The root file system in this case). Now make another partition for swap, the swap partition has to be twice as much as your RAM (as much as I've heard), it is necessary for your RAM management.

 

I know you didn't ask for it, but maybe you will run into these problems. So just in case.

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I used unetbootin. I have solved my problem by just using a dvd instead with Fedora 19. It is  an old laptop for programming when im not on my machine. it has an FM1 mobo I found out it doesnt support debian. -_- im using fedora 19 (wich is supported) and it is working perfectly!

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Thank you! I will probably use this in the future!!

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Glad it helped ;).