I’m planning on adding a dual-booting section to my guide on how to install Linux and I need some input from people who are dual booting Windows and Linux:
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How did you allocate the partition for Linux? Did you use Disk Management from Windows or did you allocate the partition as part of the installation process?
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How do you share data between the two partitions? Do you create a third partition that both OS partitions have access to? Do you use external drives/flash drives? Or do you just have no need to share data between the two drives?
Install windows and do disk size management on its size like others mention, it will break linux’s boot loader (and even its own) with one of its updates. Then I take the new fresh chunk of empty space/drive and run that in linux and just follow guides for the OS I’m trying out. You can do a dual boot on one hd just backup your files every day since windows always comes for linux (and will corrupt its own mess) in a long enough time period.
I have some sort of backup disk usually that both systems have access to or I use portable storage.