01-04-2016, 06:34 AM
@ stevedat,
Ok, you've only got a large primary partition for Root (498GB) and a logical Swap partition (2GB) and the drive is using MBR partitions. Windows should be able to install and make 2 partitions for itself. You just need to shrink the LL root partition first to make room for it. Best way to do that is to boot with the dvd/usb you made to install LL and use GParted from there. (You can't use GParted from your installed LL because it won't let you shrink the root partition while you're using it.)
Boot from live LL dvd/usb and open GParted.
Right-click on the root partition (/dev/sda1), choose resize and shrink it by however much you want to dedicate to Windows.
Yes, it will take a while. Just be patient and let it go until it tells you it's done.
I think you can just leave the space unformatted and direct the Windows installer to use that, but I'm not sure. Try that and if it doesn't show a way to direct install to that area, cancel and use GParted again to create one large NTFS partition in that space. Then try running Windows installer again and direct it to the NTFS partition.
Like I said before, there's no guarantee that something won't go wrong -- so backup anything important first.
Ok, you've only got a large primary partition for Root (498GB) and a logical Swap partition (2GB) and the drive is using MBR partitions. Windows should be able to install and make 2 partitions for itself. You just need to shrink the LL root partition first to make room for it. Best way to do that is to boot with the dvd/usb you made to install LL and use GParted from there. (You can't use GParted from your installed LL because it won't let you shrink the root partition while you're using it.)
Boot from live LL dvd/usb and open GParted.
Right-click on the root partition (/dev/sda1), choose resize and shrink it by however much you want to dedicate to Windows.
Yes, it will take a while. Just be patient and let it go until it tells you it's done.
I think you can just leave the space unformatted and direct the Windows installer to use that, but I'm not sure. Try that and if it doesn't show a way to direct install to that area, cancel and use GParted again to create one large NTFS partition in that space. Then try running Windows installer again and direct it to the NTFS partition.
Like I said before, there's no guarantee that something won't go wrong -- so backup anything important first.
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