dualboot problems

[rarmon3]

hello i have a asrock b550m steel legend and i would like to dual boot windows and linux manjaro, although ive run into an issue with my storage, some of my sata ports share lane with the m.2 and i have 4 drives and only 3 of them can be connected to my sata ports the rest would have me requiring to remove the m.2 or not work since it shares lanes, i have 3 2.5 SSDs and 1 2TB HDD (currently have it unplugged) is there any way of me being able to put windows on the HDD and linux on my m.2 and use the rest of my SSDs for linux as well? this is my drives right now you can see i have all my SSD connected and m.2 (1tb) but not the HDD

[OhioYJ]

I couldn't quite figure out exactly your drive setup. Linux generally doest need much space. Especially since I would keep your data on a separate drive or partition so it is accessible from both Windows and Linux.

 

Unless you want to reinstall Windows I would leave your Windows install alone. Generally I install Windows first, Linux second. In this case I would just create a small partition on one of your drives to install Linux to.