[GTALUG] installing linux while retaining Windows 10

[Darryl Moore]

Suggestion: be brave!

If you need windows, reinstall it as a virtual machine. I've had no 
problem doing that and using the license key on the bottom of my laptop 
to activate it.

cheers,
darryl

On 16-01-04 04:46 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> When I buy a PC, it almost always comes with Win 10 these days and I am
> not brave enough to throw it away.  So I install Linux beside Windows.
> For this I need to shrink the Windows partition.
>
> Windows is unwilling to shrink its NTFS partition to less than half
> its original size.  That's because it has placed the Master File Table
> in the middle of the partition and considers it unmovable.  There are
> third party tools that can do this but I don't want to learn about
> them or trust them.
>
> So use Linux to resize the partition to give Windows less than half of
> the disk.  There are a couple of tricks that you need to know.
>
> Windows 10, by default, uses something called Fast Startup.  That
> means that when you ask it to shut down, it only hibernates.  I think
> that that means that if you change its partition (or any of several
> other things) while it is shut down, Bad Things might happen.  I think
> that it is best turn off Fast Startup before shutting down Win 10.
> 	Settings:
> 	System:
> 	Power and Sleep:
> 	Additional Power Settings:
> 	Choose what the power buttons do:
> 	Change settings that are currently unavailable:
> 	Under Shutdown Settings, untick: Turn on fast startup (recommended)
> (I don't think that Microsoft wants you to find this.)
>
> Shutdown Windows 10.
> Boot your favourite Live linux (need not be what you install).
> Run gparted to resize the NTFS partition.
>
> SUPERSTITIOUS MODE ON /* this seems to be needed */
> 	Immediately shut down Linux.
> 	Reboot Windows (it will repair some damage caused by ntfsresize).
> 	Shut down Windows.
> SUPERSTITIOUS MODE OFF
>
> Install Linux however you wish to.
>
> You can turn on Windows' fast startup.  But only if Linux and Windows
> share no filesystems.
>
> ================
>
> Alternative solution (unreliable report of Giles' approach):
>
> Before EVER booting Wind 10, install Linux.
> Win 10 first-boot process won't eat a Linux installation.
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