Where you really have potential for trouble is if you delete or format the Linux system after its initial installation, If you wish a dual boot system make sure Linux is the last system you install, Linux will play nice and search for and enable, options to boot Windows via selection in the boot process, Windows wants you to believe no other system exists and its an act of Congress to enable options on a Windows boot manager. You don't have to install Linux to test it out! You almost never will louse up the boot manager running on a CD or USB stick, but you take a very good chance of lousing it up on installation, On mine F12 allows you to choose what disk to boot from On many (not all!) F10 is the key to save your settings in the Bios. On many semi modern (win7 and higher.although that's misleading as its more of a date of manufacture than a date of OS) F8 starts the Windows diagnostic services. There is a very narrow window during boot to press these keys on my computers there is a four second window and then its on with the boot process. The easy way to get back to where you were is to take photos with your cell phone of the original settings, make changes one at a time and test, and put it back to original if its not an improvement. On most computer I know of the F2 button gets you into the Bios (basic input - output system)(on very old computers sometimes it was F1 or the delete key).Be careful! Dragons be here! Just a quick addition(?) to the above post.
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