#Can’t select my drive for dual boot with install??

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still turtle
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since u made other, u have to pick the 'something else' option

iron edge
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Oh god

still turtle
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tbh, it's easier to undo the partion u made

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make that space part of windows agaon

iron edge
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Ok. If I extend the partition, it should let me select it?

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Or rather extend the windows partition

still turtle
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and THEN pick install alongside

iron edge
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Ok I’ll try that

still turtle
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u'll have to delete the one u made, then stretch the windows space back

iron edge
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Didn’t work. Still only shows second drive

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@still turtle ^^

still turtle
iron edge
still turtle
iron edge
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The drop down is open

still turtle
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turn off fast start in WINDOWS

iron edge
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Will try that

still turtle
iron edge
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Neope

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Still not listed

still turtle
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how many windows installs?

iron edge
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One

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There was a UEFI entry for Ubuntu that I removed thinking that would fix it.

still turtle
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mope

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u cant give it the 2nd disk?

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nvmen1

iron edge
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I’d rather not. That’s where I keep my files and i want to have it separate in case I break something

still turtle
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gotta go thru each page of installer and see missed something re: thee target disk

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is the windows drive encrypted?

iron edge
iron edge
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Just mounted it real quick to check and nope.

still turtle
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u have to pick "something else' option,

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then find the samsung nvme0

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n it should have an option to size a partion from within the installer

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do step by step here with me, show pic each step

iron edge
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I think I did it right.

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I used resize in the installer, then set the unallocated space as ext4

still turtle
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can u take the picture in landscape mode and show the full window please

iron edge
still turtle
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i mean it mostly looks right, i just weirded by why it showed the green bar n mentioned ventoy mapper

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that looks good, and bootloader drive target is righty

iron edge
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Ok imma push the button

still turtle
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yeah it'll do a summary

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show it

iron edge
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It says “no root file system is defined”

still turtle
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oh right

iron edge
still turtle
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highlight the 500GB thing u made, edit mount point

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has to be /

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(linux root)

iron edge
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Ah makes sense.

still turtle
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the smmary is vital to understand

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yeah that looks right

iron edge
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Ok I clicked the button. Thanks for the help. I promise to blame you if anything bad ever happens to this install.

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😄

still turtle
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😋

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it should auto-find the small FAT partition and add the bootloader there

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and make ur install where u told it

iron edge
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Yup. It’s copying files now. Thx again!

still turtle
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then you'll get a Grub boot menu (a kind of ugly text menu) that ought to let u pick Windows or Mint, plus some other diagnostic option

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yeah Fast Startup off is essential for this to work

iron edge
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I have dual booted before, but never had to deal with this.

iron edge