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Linux Lite Grub Dual Boot Windows XP
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(11-01-2022, 10:08 AM)W-Exit link Wrote: [...]Device        Boot Start End Sectors Size      ID Type
/dev/sda1  *                                      117G  83 Linux
/dev/sda2                                      348.7G  5  Extended
[...]

Read articles about partitioning, then read again the output.
This partitioning scheme, seems to be an automated partiton, made with the option "Use entire drive".
The "Extended" label, is just a marker that tells the system that from cylinder X to cylinder Y are the boundaries of a primary partition that has inside LOGICAL partitions.
So, on the entire drive, there are only Linux partitions. Windows has entirely gone.

(11-01-2022, 10:08 AM)W-Exit link Wrote: [...]
What does this tell me ?? sda2 = windows ??
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See above.
One thing that this tells you, is that the type of partitioning is MSDOS, which means that the firmware of your machine, is BIOS.
The other, is that this partition, is the container for the LOGICAL DRIVES.
Since all drives are formatted with extfs, the only OS that can be installed is Linux.
For Windows/Linux, you need a different partitioning scheme and a different procedure for installing both OSes.
Takes too long to explain step by step.

Read entirely this chapter, at least three times:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/manual/install.html

After reading this, write down (on paper!) all partitions you need:  type (ext2, ext4...), size in MB, destination (/ - Root, SWAP, /home, etc) and the name (mountpoint, like /home or /mydata), like in the fdisk output (/dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.).
From this output, I can deduce that you have a 1 TB drive.
This translates into this:
1,000,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 976,562,500 KB;
976,562,500 KB / 1024 = 953,674.31 MB. <--- This is the value you need to use when partitioning
This translates into 931,32 GB and 0.909 TB.

You also need to create a NTFS partition in order to be able to install and run Windows alongside Linux.
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Linux Lite Grub Dual Boot Windows XP - by W-Exit - 10-31-2022, 06:45 AM
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