EndeavourOS and partitioning.

[forest hedge]

i have linux mint on my hdd and i wanna move from linux mint to EndeavourOS and i wanna put EndeavourOS on my ssd. now the problem is i have windows on there + grub cuz i needed that for laptop's intel rapid storage firmware update and now im in a bit of a predicament. i shrank some partitions into volumes like c:\ and d:\ into 32gb (ill use that for /) and 100gb (96gb /home and 4gb of swap) so now i have everything i need but when i go into the installer it tells me i can only use 4 partitions. (MBR issue.) and i obviously wont be reinstalling windows so i wanna ask, should i remove the 513mb GRUB partition on my ssd for endeavourOS? like does it make a new GRUB partition or does it just make one inside of the existing install? ive used linux as a daily drive for like a year now, so arch-based distro's won't be a big leap for learning linux, right?

wait turns out that 513mb partition is a recovery partition, what now?

so GRUB is on the hdd, good to know

[neon verge]

endeavourOS should be given its own entire drive formatted with btrfs

so you may more easily recover issues with the distro since its not unheard of to potentually break something trying to apply a change so having btrfs recovery is very very strong

as for learning arch the real arch is probably a better resource for learning but honestly you can do that research within a VM

you also want a 2gb efi partition for btrfs so you can have more bootable snapshots

[unreal tulip]

can you please boot to Linux Mint, and do sudo parted -l and use the included screenshot tool to show result (just window of terminal please)

and then do clear to refresh the terminal

then lsblk -f and show a second screenshot of that

I imagine what you need to do is simply unplug the hdd temporarily, then install endeavour to the SSD