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How would I go about dual booting my Windows 10 system with Ubuntu 16.04.2 while keeping the changes made to my persistent Ubuntu USB?

I have tried searching all over for this but all I found was this: Install persistent version of USB onto a hard drive

Do I just follow the normal dual boot installation and then boot to the persistent usb, use the command from the above post (dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda) and replacing /dev/sda with /dev/sdaX where X is the partition number I want to store Ubuntu on?

I will also add that the persistent USB contains both Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Kali Linux 2017.1 booted with Easy2Boot.

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  • Every time you need to use Ubuntu, just boot from USB, that's all.
    – mikewhatever
    Commented May 27, 2017 at 15:26
  • @mikewhatever I know that, but my USB drive is not that big and I am about to run out of space, therefore I would like to install it alongside Windows while keeping my data.
    – FreeLine
    Commented May 27, 2017 at 15:28
  • Don't know if such a scenario is covered. You could use the /dev/sdaX thing to copy the USB to a partition, but it's unclear how you'd boot it. Using the command as is will overwrite parts of Windows, so not recommended. The second answer to that question looks promising, though not upvoted.
    – mikewhatever
    Commented May 27, 2017 at 15:40
  • @mikewhatever I also found a post on an Ubuntu forum on backing up your system with tar. This might be something to try?
    – FreeLine
    Commented May 27, 2017 at 15:43
  • If you're just concerned about getting any data files off of the USB drive, just build a normal dual-boot to your HDD, then boot Ubuntu from the HDD, insert the USB drive, and manually copy off the required data files.
    – heynnema
    Commented May 27, 2017 at 15:49

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