<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/Manual">https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/wiki/Manual</a></div><div dir="ltr">... as an Administrator the [Microsoft] Windows command which disables both hibernation and fast restarting :<code><br>powercfg /h off
</code></div><div><br></div><div>If your MS system uses Bitlocker, you may want to verify that you can access the drive(s) using Linux...<br></div><div><a href="https://www.system-rescue.org/Detailed-packages-list/">https://www.system-rescue.org/Detailed-packages-list/</a></div><div>dislocker
0.7.3-2</div><div>gparted
1.3.1-1</div><div>gptfdisk
1.0.8-1</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://superuser.com/questions/376533/how-to-access-a-bitlocker-encrypted-drive-in-linux">https://superuser.com/questions/376533/how-to-access-a-bitlocker-encrypted-drive-in-linux</a></div><br><div>re: backing up partition tables...<br></div><div><a href="https://www.partimage.org/manual/Backing-up-the-partition-table/">https://www.partimage.org/manual/Backing-up-the-partition-table/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html">http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/mbr2gpt.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>When presented with a new system, before running for the first time I back up the partition tables and disk, using above method and using clonezilla (<a href="https://clonezilla.org/">https://clonezilla.org/</a>). <br></div><div><a href="https://clonezilla.org/screenshots/?in_path=/00_Clonezilla">https://clonezilla.org/screenshots/?in_path=/00_Clonezilla</a></div><div><br></div><div>I then make a second backup using the proprietary built-in backup. <br></div><div><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1838/using-backup-and-restore-in-windows-7/">https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1838/using-backup-and-restore-in-windows-7/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/356063/how-to-fully-restore-macos-from-a-time-machine-backup-in-recovery-mode/">https://www.howtogeek.com/356063/how-to-fully-restore-macos-from-a-time-machine-backup-in-recovery-mode/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If using MS, you may want to grab the latest ISO images...</div><div><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB">https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB</a></div><div>"A MS Windows USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux"<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I go into a little more detail at my blog <br></div><div><a href="https://youcanlinux.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/backup/">https://youcanlinux.wordpress.com/2022/03/05/backup/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>regards,<br></div><div>Daniel Villarreal</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 4:27 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
... If you want to install Linux beside Windows, [free] some disk space.  ([and/or]... add another disk.) ...<br>
I use gparted ... to shrink a Windows NTFS volume... <br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Here are the tricks ... </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">- if Windows is using bitlocker, you need to turn that off in Windows.<br>....<br>
- ... Windows ... leave[s] the filesystem in an inconsistent state when it shuts down....  <br>
  ... Windows' Control Panel ...  Power Settings, and untick "turn on fast startup ...<br>
  <br>
- (old advice; may be obsolete...<br>
  After resizing ... , reboot to [MS].  Don't do anything else with the disk in Linux first... <br> After booting [MS], you can reboot to a Linux install medium safely.<br><br>
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