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Partitioning a New Disk

If you bought new disk you need to partition it and install OS in one of these partitions. I have 512Gb NVMe disk.

Boot Configuration​

BIOS Setup

First of all, you must have a Boot Configuration like this:

 -------- Boot (tab) -------------

...
# 1     [P0: P3-256]
# 2     [UEFI OS (P0: P3-256)]
# 3     [UEFI: JetFlashTranscend …]
...
HARD DRIVE BBS PRIORITIES (subsection)

# 1     [P0 P3-256]
# 2     [NE-512]
# 3     [JetFlashTranscend ...]
...
CSM PARAMETERS (subsection)

...
Boot option filter:            [UEFI and Legacy]
Launch PXE OpROM:              [UEFI only]
Launch storage OpROM policy:   [UEFI only]
Launch Video OpROM policy:     [Legacy only]
Other PCI device ROM priority: [Legacy OpROM]
...

Linux​

Bash​

todo

KDE Partition Manager​

  1. Make new partiion table (select the msdos type; Windows may not be install in the gpt type)

  2. Make new partition ntfs (size: 60Gb)

  3. Make another new partition ntfs (size: remainder; with 550Mb free space after)

  4. Make extra partition

  5. Edit mount point:

    • first: /mnt/sdc1
    • second: /mnt/sdc2

  6. Apply config

  7. Make two dirs in bash:

    • /mnt/sdc1
    • /mnt/sdc2

  8. Edit mount point again

  9. Mount two new partitions with KDE Partition Manager

Windows​

Installation Error​

If you get some error during the installation:

couldn't partition ...
caution

Rufus: Add a 600 mb partition in rufus settings

Change Disk Order in BIOS

Ventoy: If you have multiple SSD, HDD or NVMe disks or mix from them, you, first of all, must set the order to the disk, where you want to install Windows, right after the the LIVE CD flash.

Do it right inside Windows installer:

  1. Press Shif + F10 (opens command line terminal)
  2. (in the command line terminal) type following commands:
cmd
diskpart
list disk
select disk 2      # where you want to install windows
clean
create partition primary size=60000      # or another size
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
active
list volume
exit

and enter to the windows install process again. Your partition be signed as a system type.

Edit Partition in cmd​

If you want edit a partition:

list partition
select partition

disk 0 clean     # partition number for Windows installation
disk 0 create partition primary
disk 0 active
disk 0 format fs=ntfs quick
disk 0 assign

Delete extra Windows Boot Loader​

If you see two versions of Windows when booting you need to delete one of the Windows Boot Loaders:

bcdedit /delete {7ca97355-3bf6-11eb-95ba-ac7b2907d2c6}

With id another one Windows Boot Loader.

update-grub

Needs to do if you see two entries of Windows on grub menu when booting

Helpful Commands​

If installed Windows don't want start...

Single Windows​

bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd

restart

bcdboot c:\windows /s c: /l en-us

Multiple Windows​

diskpart
list volume

select with system type

select volume ?
assign letter=z
exit
bcdboot c:\windows \s z: /f all
bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /f uefi