Hello , I’m a new Linux user and an absolute begginer.
So I have a bootable dvd and boot the PC with it and it was successful . Now I want to dual boot it with my windows 10 , I have 5 volume on my dynamic disk :
C: windows
D:
E:
F:
K:
When I want to install fedora on my hard drive , the installation only show my C drive and instead showing other volumes it just show :
Unknown : 370GB
I have no idea how to solve it please help.
We need a bit more information.
When booted into the install media open a terminal window then
Please post the output of sudo fdisk -l and lsblk -f
Do both by copy and paste using the </> (preformatted text) button on the toolbar.
Once we have a better idea of what your system has we may be able to make suggestions.
OTOH, it seems possible that fedora cannot see the dynamic disk partitions created by windows so that could be the issue as well.
Waiting to see what can be determined by the info requested.
Hi,
Please do yourself a favor and do not dual boot. It’s calling for problems:
Install linux on a 2nd drive instead.
I need Linux for my hdd , I see hundreds of people having two OS on one hdd . So I think this won’t cause any harm.
Bro it says :
Fdisk : invalid option – ’ f ’
Try ‘fdisk --help’ for more information
Would that be a LDM volume?
The problem is when I type lsblk command in terminal it show partition :
Sda:
Sda1: 70 gb it’s C drive
Sda2: 93 gb
Sda3: 92 gb
Sda4: 92 gb
Sda5: 92 gb
It recognize my partition completely true by the size.
I have to disagree with you on dual boot reliability.
I see rare issues not the level of issue to be put off by as you suggest.
Have a look at your disk with the windows disk manager.
How does it describe each partition?
Note that I suggested sudo fdisk -l in my post above.
-f was not the option for fdisk but was for lsblk -f.
5 partition : D: C : K: E: F:
Dynamic partition
Healthy
NTFS formated
No unallocated space.
Do you checked that picture I sent ? It’s for lsblk
Please help I need dual boot
To make space for Linux you need to create unallocated space by removing or resizing the existing partitions. You should do that from within Windows, somehow, as it knows best how to deal with Windows file systems. If that is not possible, you can add a second disk unit to provide the unallocated space.
What exactly do you mean by Dynamic partition?
There is two type of disk, dynamic or basic
Basic can have only 4 partition and they are logical drive .
Dynamic can have more that 4 partition and the partitions are called volume.
You mean I can’t use NTFS partition for Linux?
Linux needs unallocated space as it will create the required partitions and file systems during the install process.
You should still provide the output from sudo fdisk -l. If there are not enough free space before the start of the first partition, you may not be able to make the linux system bootable. Also, I don’t know if the LDM volume could become a problem to boot Windows later on.
It might therefore be better to install linux in a Virtual machine running on Windows, if that is possible.
You can mount NTFS filesytems to access files, but you cannot use NTFS for a linux system.
I had to look this up, had not heard of dynamic disks before.
And this is what Microsoft says about them:
** Dynamic disks have been deprecated from Windows and are no longer recommended. Instead, use basic disks or the newer Storage Spaces technology when you want to pool disks together into larger volumes.**
From Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk | Microsoft Learn
That sounds like the limit from the legacy MBR disk label format.
Modern systems use GPT and have no such limit.
Oh you mean if I convert my disk to basic and GPT I can have more than 4 partition? It it’s possible it will great.
