Problems installing Linux alongside Windows 10

[Erling1951]

I am trying to install Linux alongside Windows 10, but the installation stops, because it seems it's not possible to create a partition for Linux. There's about 100 GB free space on the harddisk to create the partition. I have tried to install both Linux Mint and Lubuntu.

 

[arochester]

Does this help, or do you still have a problem? http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/11/how-to-shrink-windows-10-to-make-space.html

 

[Erling1951]

Does this help, or do you still have a problem? http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/11/how-to-shrink-windows-10-to-make-space.html

I tried that, but it's not possible to shrink my C: drive - it cannot be smaller than 292 GB - and in fact I have 114 GB free space.

 

[arochester]

@nornak Please don't add your problem to the end of someone else's post. Please start your own post with your own problem.

 

[wizardfromoz]

@Erling1951 - G'day and welcome to linux.org

How large is your hard drive?

You saw, in that article @arochester linked to, how they had screenshots of the partition layout in Windows 10. Can you take those for your computer (use the Windows Snipping Tool) and post them up to here?

Cheers

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

 

[Erling1951]

@Erling1951 - G'day and welcome to linux.org

How large is your hard drive?

You saw, in that article @arochester linked to, how they had screenshots of the partition layout in Windows 10. Can you take those for your computer (use the Windows Snipping Tool) and post them up to here?

Cheers

Chris Turner
wizardfromoz

My harddisk is 292,02 GB. Have tried to defrag it, but still I cannot shrink it.

Erling

 

[arochester]

I don't know for sure.

If you go to the link I gave http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2015/11/how-to-shrink-windows-10-to-make-space.html and click on the red bit

NOTE: If your computer does not have an EFI partition and there are 4 partitions on the drive which say primary then you should read this guide before continuing as you cannot have more that 4 primary partitions on a non-EFI drive.

it takes you to another place which talks about

Who Is Affected?
If your computer uses the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) then you will not be affected. If however your computer has a legacy BIOS then you may be affected but only if your computer’s hard drive already has 4 primary partitions.

You appear to have 4 partitions. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and Lubuntu is Ubuntu.

I wonder if this is relevant?

 

[Erling1951]

Instead of using the built-in tool I downloaded a partition master:
https://www.easeus.com/partition-ma...ZXqJxKB9Ry8rjDBdFrHW7Ibo7tQ9m294aAoFSEALw_wcB
and used that to create a new partition. Think there's others which can be used.
After that I had no problems installing Lubuntu alongside Windows 10.

But thanks for your help.
Erling