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## Windows
Please refer to the [Docker Desktop for Windows user manual](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/) for details on how to install Docker on Windows.
Please refer to the [Docker Desktop for Windows user manual](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/) for details on how to install Docker on Windows. There is no need to install a Linux distro if using named volumes like in the example below.
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**WSL2 will need to be installed to prevent DB corruption!** Please see the [Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend documentation](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/wsl/) for instructions on how to enable WSL2. The command below will only work with WSL2 installed!
**WSL2 will need to be installed to prevent DB corruption!** Please see the [Docker Desktop WSL 2 backend documentation](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/wsl/) for instructions on how to enable WSL2. The commands below will only work with WSL2 installed!
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First, create a volume to store the configuration data for Overseerr using using either the Docker CLI:
```bash
docker volume create overseerr-data
```
or the Docker Desktop app:
1. Open the Docker Desktop app
2. Head to the Volumes tab
3. Click on the "New Volume" button near the top right
4. Enter a name for the volume (example: `overseerr-data`) and hit "Create"
If using a named volume like above, you can safely ignore the warning about the `/app/config` folder being incorrectly mounted on the setup page.
To access the files inside the volume created above, navigate to `\\wsl$\docker-desktop-data\version-pack-data\community\docker\volumes\overseerr-data\_data` using File Explorer.
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Docker on Windows works differently than it does on Linux; it runs Docker inside of a stripped-down Linux VM. Volume mounts are exposed to Docker inside this VM via SMB mounts. While this is fine for media, it is unacceptable for the `/app/config` directory because SMB does not support file locking. This will eventually corrupt your database, which can lead to slow behavior and crashes.
**If you must run Docker on Windows, you should put the `/app/config` directory mount inside the VM and not on the Windows host.** (This also applies to other containers with SQLite databases.)
Named volumes, like in the example commands above, are automatically mounted inside the VM.