... 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...
dislocker
0.7.3-2
gparted
1.3.1-1
gptfdisk
1.0.8-1
re: backing up partition tables...
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/).
I then make a second backup using the proprietary built-in backup.
If using MS, you may want to grab the latest ISO images...
"A MS Windows USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux"
I go into a little more detail at my blog
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.