Unix & Linux Asked by Nanor on February 8, 2021
I have a ~500gb hard drive that I intend to split 50/50 for Windows 10 and Linux Mint 17. The Windows partition is 232GB and the Linux partition is, at the moment, uncreated. When I run Mint off my pen drive and go to install it, it shows the hard drive as 500gb of ‘free space’. I can’t install because it will wipe my Windows install.
How can I get the partition to show in Mint?
Just a thought... as I have tried this my self on a machine that did support both "legacy boot" and the new standard i simply disabled the legacy in the BIOS, and then the win10 partition showed up. It could seems like *nix could have periodic "failures" seeing partitions on the new boot format :/
Answered by Joakim on February 8, 2021
Always make a back up first!
I did this the other day installing Ubuntu 14.10 on a Windows 10 drive. When the installation got to the part where you choose how to install I chose "something else". At that point no operating systems were detected, however, the partition showed up as "Windows bootloader".
You can mark the partition as "do not use" and then resize the "do not use" partition to make free space for linux.
The linux partition needs to be partitioned to ext4 (default), ext3, xfs, or btrfs. You also need a couple of GB to partition for linux-swap space.
Answered by mchid on February 8, 2021
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