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