Im having trouble dual boot linux with windows 11 | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 7:51 PM

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i want to dual boot linux and windows 11 and this is my first instance of doing something linux related. i just bought a 128 gigabyte usb drive and plugged it in. I looked up a tutorial on how to dual boot on youtube. i have installed an ISO file on my usb drive thing. then the tutorial tells me to shrink the disk that my windows is running on. However unlike in the youtube video i cant shrink it for some reason (screen shot). im really sorry if i get things wrong im an absolute beginner at linux and i have little computer knowledge in general.

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note: in the video it tells me that i need at least 30 gigabytes free and i have 70

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note 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmSymuoxoNA&t=119s im following this video

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-# now we wait

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:04 PM

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u cant shrink it from Disk Management, is what you're saying?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:04 PM

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YEAH

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srry caps

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i forgot to put the screenshot

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hold on

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:06 PM

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Windows lately like to scatter immovable (to it) data all over the damn drive these days.

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:06 PM

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yeah

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:06 PM

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first thing's first tho

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u have only one internal drive right?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:06 PM

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its really hard to free space because most programs just run in background for some unknown reason and i cant do anything about it

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:07 PM

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pseudo badge u have only one internal drive right?

yeah

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:07 PM

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ok open powershell - as admin

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:07 PM

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ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:08 PM

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then do powercfg /a and state exactly what it shows for 'fast startup'

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:09 PM

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The following sleep states are available on this system:
Standby (S0 Low Power Idle) Network Connected
Hibernate
Fast Startup

The following sleep states are not available on this system:
Standby (S1)
The system firmware does not support this standby state.
This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Standby (S2)
    The system firmware does not support this standby state.
    This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Standby (S3)
    The system firmware does not support this standby state.
    This standby state is disabled when S0 low power idle is supported.

Hybrid Sleep
    Standby (S3) is not available.
    The hypervisor does not support this standby state.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>

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this is what it wrote

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:09 PM

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do powercfg /h off to deactivate fast startup

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:10 PM

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ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:10 PM

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this is very important for any kind of dualboot, even dual- or triple- drive systems

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:10 PM

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ok

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so what exactuly did it fix?

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:11 PM

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u can recheck using first command, that it worked

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:11 PM

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woeful summit so what exactuly did it fix?

interference

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next, ur prompt should be in c:\system something now yes?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:12 PM

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yeah

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:12 PM

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do chkdsk

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let it scan the c: drive's health

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if it reports no errors, good

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:13 PM

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The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Windows.

WARNING! /F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
Progress: 116369 of 1442304 done; Stage: 8%; Total: 3%; ETA: 0:01:59

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this is what it wrote

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:13 PM

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let it work

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:13 PM

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oh wait its typing more

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The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Windows.

WARNING! /F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
1442304 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 20.51 seconds.
55823 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 24.27 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.25 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
845 reparse records processed.
1842290 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 51.34 seconds.
0 unindexed files scanned.
Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 14.23 seconds.
0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.25 milliseconds.
845 reparse records processed.
Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 7.24 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 133.16 milliseconds.
199994 data files processed.
Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.54 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37654616 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Phase duration (USN journal verification): 146.85 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

249170943 KB total disk space.
165803108 KB in 565349 files.
454004 KB in 199995 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
1523423 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
81390408 KB available on disk.

  4096 bytes in each allocation unit.

62292735 total allocation units on disk.
20347602 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 1.44 minutes (86408 ms).

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this is what it wrote

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i think its final

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:15 PM

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approx 81,390 MiB available

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good

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is this a hard drive or SSD if you know?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:16 PM

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i dont think i know

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:17 PM

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ok u'll find out here with a tool;

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:17 PM

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its windows (C:)

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:17 PM

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that means nothing what u just wrote

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see this, and get this tool. exactly as pic: #1366753008087728148 message

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:17 PM

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oh im sorry then

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:18 PM

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get the free Aomei, then use it to resize; it's all detailed step by step in that post.

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:19 PM

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ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 8:19 PM

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i'd recommend at least 60 GiB to shrink for linux

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u just drag the blue handle on right of partition in Aomei > resize drive

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if it's a rotational hard drive, it may take over an hour.

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if an SSD, maybe 20 -30 minutes

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aomei should mention the model of the drive in its infformation. u can google the model to know if its hdd or ssd

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:21 PM

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ok

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 8:41 PM

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ok its applying

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:18 PM

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oh yeah there a checkboxes for "automatically fix errors when found" and "shut down the computer when all of the ooperations are done" do i need to check any of them?

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:31 PM

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woeful summit oh yeah there a checkboxes for "automatically fix errors when found" and "shut d...

nah

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:32 PM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:32 PM

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already did chkdsk.

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finished or what?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:32 PM

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No

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70%

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:32 PM

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good

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:33 PM

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I would send a screenshot but my windows is tweaking ever since i tried freeing storage

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:33 PM

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make sure on reliable electricity by wire and by battery both if applicable

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:33 PM

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My laptop is plugged in at all times

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Lets just pray no one decides to bite out some wires in that one room that magically provides electricity to my apartment

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:35 PM

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make sure good battery in laptop

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as a backup. but dont fiddle with it now to shake the cord loose

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did it boot into PE mode?

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and doing the shrink?

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and for how long since it started doing the job?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:41 PM

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pseudo badge make sure good battery in laptop

Its 100% and plugged in

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Its still shrinking

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74%

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I started about an hour ago

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:43 PM

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must be a hard drive for sure then

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:43 PM

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My laptop is bad though so thats expected

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:43 PM

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major defragmenting in progress

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:43 PM

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Lemme see if i can pull up the model

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:44 PM

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ur in that black PE mode, on that pc rn right?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:44 PM

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Uhh

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No i dont think so

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:45 PM

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jesus F Christ.

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friggin BITLOCKER too

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unbelievable

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:46 PM

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What about it

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:46 PM

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it's not even at the black screen PE mode yet

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that's gonna take maybe another hour

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:46 PM

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pseudo badge that's gonna take maybe another hour

😭

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 9:47 PM

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never encrypt anything in Linux unless ur life depends on it

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serious

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 9:47 PM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:01 PM

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woeful summit Ok

keep an eye open for this part. then do it as shown. #1366753008087728148 message

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:02 PM

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ok

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85%

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90%

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:17 PM

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make sure u turned bitlocker off and decrypt after this program is totally finished

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:17 PM

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well it said its gonna turn off bitlocker as it shrinks

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idk how to turjn decrypt off

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:17 PM

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hopeffully

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watch rest of vid he he shows it

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:18 PM

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ok

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95%

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omg 97%

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ive been waiting for so long this is lowkey exiting now

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:37 PM

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just calm down and eat

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:37 PM

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omgg yes 100%

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:37 PM

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pseudo badge just calm down and eat

im full

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:38 PM

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is it gonna restart or what?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:38 PM

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uh

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Do i select this one?

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Another loading screen 😭

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:39 PM

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now for an actual resizing one hour

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:40 PM

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pseudo badge now for an actual resizing one hour

What… 😭

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:40 PM

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dude it was just encrypted shit

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it didnt touch sizing yet

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:41 PM

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Is there gonna be any more painfully long loading screens after i finish the resizing thing

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:41 PM

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just the mint install itself. about half hour

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:41 PM

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WAAH1

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How come resizing takes longer than installing the freaking os itself

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 10:42 PM

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pseudo badge major defragmenting in progress

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woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 10:43 PM

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Oh yeah

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Is it okay if i leave my computer for a while

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Is it gonna blow up or something if i dont look over it every five minutes?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:07 PM

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pseudo badge .

My computer just restarted

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I think ita done downloading

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:08 PM

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u mean it finished . well check sizing

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and while you're in Disk Management, check for ANY mention of bitlocker

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:09 PM

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ok

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Dont see any mention of bitlocker

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I think the software did its job

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sooo

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do i just keep following the guide or do i need to do smth else?

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:12 PM

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stretch the "STATUS" column

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so u can read it properly

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just follow my link it shows what to do after.

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:13 PM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:13 PM

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pseudo badge keep an eye open for this part. then do it as shown. https://discord.com/channel...

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pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:54 PM

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woeful summit Ok

finished installing?

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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Im doing it rn

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Im not sure what to do here

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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no

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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Its not like on the guide

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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why dont u see the thing..

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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Idk

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:55 PM

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'install alongside'

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ffs. close that

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:56 PM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:56 PM

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do efibootmgr in terminal and read back first line

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:57 PM

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pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:57 PM

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hit win key, type disks

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show pic of main drive in it

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:58 PM

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pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:58 PM

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...

woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:58 PM

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Did it nuke?

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Or smth

pseudo badge Jul 11, 2025, 11:59 PM

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pseudo badge show pic of main drive in it

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woeful summit Jul 11, 2025, 11:59 PM

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pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:00 AM

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next one

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:00 AM

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pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:01 AM

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look in both RAID arrays

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idk what u did

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:02 AM

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pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:02 AM

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did u tell the installer it was a RAID setup when it asked. (it does ask)

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:02 AM

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I dont think so

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I dont remember

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:03 AM

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well, it seems ur drive's blanked

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:03 AM

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Oh

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:03 AM

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see if windows is still bootable

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doubt it tho

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if not, go in BIOS and turn OFF RST in storage options

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put storage to AHCI and not RAID

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:05 AM

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How do i go to bios from this screen

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:07 AM

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press enter and then be ready to hit whatever key

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the one used to enter BIOS

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or juust pull usb n press enter

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the point was to test if windows boots

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:08 AM

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My windows booted

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:08 AM

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oh

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:08 AM

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pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:08 AM

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hm ok follow this then: #1357354361562337392 message

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:09 AM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:11 AM

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HP laptops are F10 for BIOS (and F9 for boot menu)

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:13 AM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:19 AM

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tag me once u've disabled RST/RAID and ur in the live mint desktop

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:20 AM

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Wait

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Where exactuly do i find the Uefi settings?

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Im confused

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@pseudo badge where do i find the uefi settings

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:27 AM

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oof

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:28 AM

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I dont know where to find it😭

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:28 AM

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i think they hide it with ctrl-s. google how to disable RST on HP laptop

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:28 AM

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Ok

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:29 AM

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look in that uefi MII thing too , in pic above, last item

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:30 AM

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I found some forum and the first reply is that its not in bios

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:31 AM

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BULLSHIT

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just type it exactly as i friggin typed, to GOOGLE.COM

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:31 AM

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pseudo badge just type it exactly as i friggin typed, to GOOGLE.COM

I did

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This is the first thing that popped up

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:31 AM

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well that's a bullshit link

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:31 AM

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Not even joking

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:32 AM

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put ur HP laptop model in if needed in the search query too

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disable RST on HP <model number>

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:36 AM

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Do you think this could be it?

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Oh yeah it is

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When i enter in it shows me this

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If i go in again it shows me this

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And this is the last screen

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@pseudo badge i found it

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:38 AM

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then turn it off

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this shit may take time too even

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:39 AM

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pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:39 AM

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then follow up with my link about the whole restoring the windows boot out of safemode, etc . the thing Maniak wrote there.

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:39 AM

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When i pressed disable it froze

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Yeah

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:40 AM

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it's working

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probably

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ur pc should have a drive light on the edge or side indicating activity

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:40 AM

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Now it shows me this

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Yeah

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:41 AM

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good

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:41 AM

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It says its non raid now

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Can i go back to linux install?

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:42 AM

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pseudo badge then follow up with my link about the whole restoring the windows boot out of sa...

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woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:42 AM

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Oh yeah

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Disable safe boot then linux

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Ok this is NOT how it should be

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Everything is larger and my cursor is default

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Oh wait its because im in safe mode

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Im stupid

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OMGG YESS

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@pseudo badge its good now

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What is this?

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Do i press continue?

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:54 AM

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?

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u should confirm in DISKS app.

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probably will make a p4 in that space u made before

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:56 AM

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It works

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 12:56 AM

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wwhat works?

woeful summit Jul 12, 2025, 12:57 AM

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Its installing

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@pseudo badge its stuck on this logo for some reason idk if its loading something

pseudo badge Jul 12, 2025, 1:32 AM

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first boot sometimes has issues

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u can press Escape at that logo to see information

#Im having trouble dual boot linux with windows 11

disable RST on HP <model number>