How To Install and Run Backtrack On Windows

We going to share an important article on How To Install and Run Backtrack On Windows. With these you can run any other operating system while using windows.

Recently, I’m discussing How to Install and Run BackTrack on Android Devices. BackTrack is a Linux-based infiltration testing program that helps security professionals in the ability to perform evaluations in a completely native environment dedicated to hacking.

I wanted to run Linux on Windows but I never craved to install it directly. So what I did is that I installed it in a Virtual Environment. Which means you can use Windows and run another Operating System while using Windows. This can be achieved through a Software like VMware or VirtualBox.

How To Install and Run Backtrack On Windows

The subject of this thread consists of Backtrack. You can Download BackTrack Linux from their Official Website. Now in this post, i’m going to show you how to Install Backtrack 5 using VirtualBox on Windows.

Tips To Install and Run Backtrack On Windows:

Step 1. To create a virtual machine, let us start the VirtualBox and click the ‘New‘ virtual machine button in the toolbar.

Step 2.  After clicking on new, Enter any name for the Virtual Machine, For Example, “Backtrack” Then choose the type of OS as Linux and Version as Other Linux. Once you are done, Click Next.
My usual choice is in-between 512 MB to 800 MB. You can really change this to whatever you want but I’ve run into ram issue at 512MB so I tend to up it.

Step 3. Just select ‘Create a new hard disk’ and Click Create. Then it asks you to choose Hard drive file type. Select the default VDI (Virtual Disk Image) and hit Next.

Step 4. Then after you have to select ‘Dynamically allocated‘ and hit Next. And now comes the important part. You have to select the Size of Virtual Drive. I have given about 2GB of disk space for Virtual Machine. You can give more or less according to your wish. After you hit Next, the Virtual Machine will be created.

Step 5. Adding Backtrack Linux ISO to Virtual Machine, Now that you have created Virtual Machine, You need to add an ISO or Image file of an OS. To do that Just hit the Settingsbutton. You have to select Storage, then select Empty. And finally, select the disc icon on the rightmost side. Which would open up a drop down menu?

Step 6. Now select ‘Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file‘ and browse to the directory where your ISO or Image file is stored. In this case, I will just browse and select BT5. ISO imagefrom my hard drive. And just click OK. Now everything is set up. All you need to do is click ‘Start‘.

Step 7. After you hit Start, The Virtual Machine boots up. Then it loads up the OS (in this case – BackTrack 5). You might need to hit Enter so BackTrack starts booting.

Step 8. That’s it now you able to install and run backtrack in windows. So in this way you successfully install and run backtrack 5 on your windows 7,8,10. If you face any problem feel free to discuss in below comments,

So today we had administered the valuable tips on How to install and run Backtrack in windows. You can make full use of this feature. Now you can use Windows and run another Operating System while using Windows. Share this post with your friends too if you liked it! If you are feeling any problem in any steps mentioned above then feel free to ask us in comments.

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