I choose to leave the Windows Recovery partition alone.įor conventional magnetic hard driver select "Defrag" now often called "Optimize." For SSD's there are conflicting opinions whether this damages the SSD or not, reducing its longevity. You can add it in later to Windows or Linux or yet another operating system later.
(I think 500GB for each is plenty.) IF your disk is larger than 1TB leave the rest unpartitioned unformatted free space. (Probably identified by "C:")ĭecide how many GigaBytes you want to leave for Windows, and how many Gigabytes to prepare for Linux. So from your running Windows desktop, enter the "File Explorer" application and raise the screen that will show your system disk icon. With modern distributions the best way is NOT to attempt to pre-partition and pre-format your system disk. Then when using the alternative there is absolutely no residual effect of Windows drivers and settings. So if you want to leave the Microsoft Operating system completely dormant and unused, you need to carve out space on the disk for the alternative operating system. First, yet another way to obtain running Linux without altering the partition table: Īlso the "Persistent USB" technique should work on an external hard drive as well as a memory key thumbdrive.
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