Not sure if this is the right place to ask or if anyone can help me, but today, I installed the ubuntu ISO & converted it to a bootable format on an 128GB SD card (All my USBs are too small) I ran the installer as normal & here’s where I think I messed up. I allocated a 27GB partition for linux but that option didnt apper on the installer upon being asked where to install to. Thinking nothing of it, I ran the installer clicking on the install to drive option & halfway through it failed saying something like Error16 Drive is busy & the installation was only half done. now on attempt to restart windows is completely gone & all I can do is boot up a very fragmented Ubuntu without internet & firefox works very slowly. If anyone can help, then it’s appreciated. I’ve always wanted to try Linux & just got an SD card large enough to do it, but now this happens.
I have a 28GB D drive that seems to be being used for recovery and backups & a 210GB C drive, I could easily free about 30GB for another partition. I have the bootable USB set up.
okay, that’s fine! make sure to turn off bitlocker.
once you’ve done that you’re gonna resize your partitions in windows. i’ll walk you through that.
so your C: drive is 210 GB, how much free space do you have on it?
about 90GB is left on C:\ but I’ll only need 30GB for my linux partition. Besides, I can always resize the partition later, right?
right on, you have enough space to not end up in trouble!
in windows, right click the start menu and choose “disk management”
it’ll bring up an old looking MSI that shows your drive and the different partitions it has.
right click the C drive and choose “shrink”.
you’ll get asked how much you want to shrink it by iirc. type in the number and click okay.
once that is done, the disk management window will show the new free space.
if everything goes as planned, make sure you turned off bitlocker and restart into windows.
