Tutorial: How to set up a Windows/Linux Lite dual-boot with UEFI fully enabled.

[m654321]

Many thanks Misko - I liked the 'saucy cartoon' !

The Ubuntu live media I used for the tutorial was originally version 14.10.
However, support for this was only for 9 months and only just ended two days ago, on the 24th July 2015 - this means it will not install UEFI (as I've just found out!)

Instead use the long term support version, i.e. 14.04.1 LTS (a.k.a. Trusty Tahr).  Support for this expires in April 2019, which I think coincides with that for LL2.4.  I've just tried 14.04.1, for installing LL2.4 in the dual-boot, with UEFI fully-enabled, and it works fine.  The relevant updating has therefore been made to the Tutorial and one of my posts. You can download the iso file to burn to CD from...  http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/14.04.0/

One tip, that may  save a lot of time if you have any accidents, is to first make a master version of the dual-boot set-up that you can go back to and clone, should you have any 'accidents' with your working copy.  For example, from Amazon, I bought a new 250GB HDD (Western Digital blue) for only £25, and set up the master dual-boot on this. I then used a 250GB SDD (Samsung 850 Evo, around £75) as my working copy - you get cloning software with this SSD, so you can easily copy from your master to the working version.  Alternatively, you can use linux's dd command to make cloned copies.   

Regards
Mike