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Doing a windows install with a specific allocated disk size

Anonymous
2019-05-04T00:01:56+00:00

Hi, 

I just received a replacement drive after my old one stopped working, and I'm about to do a clean install of windows on it.

I was wondering if it's possible to install windows so that instead of my C drive taking 95% of my drive space (I think windows automatically partitions 5% of the drive towards other system files), it takes for example only 50% of it by leaving the other 45% of my total drive space****u nallocated. 

I am doing this because I would like to install Linux with 100 GB of allocated drive space for it, but last time I installed windows it took over my whole drive, and I was only able to shrink my C drive by 13 GB, which was incredibly restricting (specially taking into consideration my drive is 512 GB). 

I've tried workarounds for this maximum shrink size, but all attempts have failed. I am extremely reluctant of using third-party tools for shrinking my volume with fear that it will corrupt my drive (specially after just having to replace this one).

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Anonymous
2019-05-04T09:37:04+00:00

Hi Laura

At the beginning of the installation, you will see a window with 2 large buttons, choose the bottom button - Custom: Install Windows Only

On the next Window you will see the partition table on that drive, you can create a new partition to install Windows 10 onto from that window and leave the rest of that drive as unallocated space - size conversion, 1000MB = 1GB

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-05-05T01:46:37+00:00

    This is the feature I was looking for! Thank you so much!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-05-04T00:05:37+00:00

    Hi Laura

    My name is Andre Da Costa; an Independent Consultant, Windows Insider MVP and Windows & Devices for IT MVP. I'm here to help you with your problem.

    A Windows 10 installation uses about 8 to 10 GBs of disk space, and the recovery partition created by Windows 10 for diagnostics and resetting the installation if needed uses about 500 to 600 MBs of space.

    You can always partition your disk after setup and allocate as much space as you want for Linux.

    See steps for partitioning:

    https://www.groovypost.com/howto/create-partiti...

    Steps for dual booting Windows 10 and Linux:

    https://www.groovypost.com/howto/dual-boot-wind...

    Information in the above link is sourced from a trusted Microsoft MVP blog.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-05-04T00:04:32+00:00

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