Unable to install Fedora 40 alongside Windows on HP Pavilion DV6 laptop

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I have a HP Pavilion DV6 laptop which has Windows on it, and I have been unable to install Fedora 40 on the 201.89 GB of free hard disk space. The “Installation Destination” on the installer continues to have a flag against it unless I select to delete the Windows partition, which I may do eventually but aren’t ready just yet on this particular laptop. Please do help with any suggestions you may have.

Below are additional specs of the laptop:

AMD Phenom II N830 Triple-core Processor 2.1GHz
500GB (7200RPM) Hard Drive
4GB DDR3 SDRAM (2 Dimm)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 1GB DDR3 dedicated graphics memory

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It does not sound like that space is free (unallocated).
Is that a partition created by windows and unused? or did you use windows disk manager and actually shrink the windows filesystem and partition while leaving the space unallocated?

If it is a partition then it must be removed before fedora will be able to install there.

Also you must ensure you are installing in the same boot method as windows. If windows is uefi boot then fedora should be installed the same. If windows is MBR boot that also means fedora should be installed the same. (if you have windows 11 it is certainly installed uefi boot. That is the only boot method supported by win11)

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Added dual-boot, installation, windows and removed amd, radeon

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Did you free the space already? You need to shrink the NTFS partition of Windows, so that you have that space actually free.

Do that inside windows, with the atrocious Windows Partition tool. There are many guides on this

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