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Darn Drives Don't want me to Dual-boot!

Ayden Herbst
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I've been considering switching to Linux for a while, and therefore want to dualboot it with my windows install to get a feel for it and test compatibility. When I try and shrink my SSD's main volume, Windows only allows me to shrink it by a maximum of 3.5 GB; even though I have around 150GB of my 240GB drive left. Would anyone happen to know why this is and how to resolve it?

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Use something like Minitool partition manager, it will reorganise data unlike the Windows tool. 

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Resize the partition using the live usb, Use gparted or the installer to resize.

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