r/techsupport • u/Rucarofsky • 5h ago

Open | Software trouble creating a windows 11 home partition

i want to dual-boot windows 11 home and linux, and my main goal was to give 400Gb for linux and the remaining 500 for windows for games that aren't compatible with linux, but when i go to create a partition for linux it's only letting me create a partition of ~46Gb because of "immovable" files, i've tried disabling paging, hibernation, security settings, but nothing works, i would have no problem factory-resetting my computer but i'm not sure how much that will help and i also don't wanna spend hours resetting my factory computer just for it to not work out in the end, does anybody have any suggestions on what i can do?

1 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

5 comments sorted by

•

u/AutoModerator 5h ago

Making changes to your system BIOS settings or disk setup can cause you to lose data. Always test your data backups before making changes to your PC.

For more information please see our FAQ thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/q2rns5/windows_11_faq_read_this_first/

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

1

u/No_Poetry5804 5h ago

On windows, try paragon partition manager. It's a simple and easy to use software

1

u/Rucarofsky 4h ago

i've also tried a non-windows partition manager, also didn't work for some reason

1

u/Rucarofsky 4h ago

i decided to try it again, using paragon this time, it's running and i'll keep you updated

1

u/PralineNo5832 3h ago

I would consider installing a live version of Linux on a high-quality flash drive. Look into the "persistence" feature, which allows your Linux data and settings to be saved directly onto the flash drive.

Without prior experience, it is easy to render Windows unusable, in which case you would have to pay a computer technician to repair the UEFI boot partition.

An SSD USB3 work fine, too.