Is it possible to cut off a piece of space from Windows and install Linux there?

Question

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Since we don’t want to reinstall the system, we have the task: Windows 8 on drive C 250GB, and a file washer for 750 GB, is it possible to cut off 100-150GB from the second disk and put Arch Linux there?

Answer 1

Of course you can. Take any program for working with partitions (for example, acronis disk director) and divide the second partition (although it turns out from the third one, since the first one is bootable about 100 mb). Then these 200 GB need to be deleted and one partition with the ext4 file system (or whatever you need) and one partition of equal RAM for swap created.

Answer 2

of course you can
only with the bootloader do not miss it))

Answer 3

virtualbox to the rescue

Answer 4

It is possible, but be careful.

Answer 5

Gparted from under Linux Live, if you cut the system partition.

Answer 6

If the figure eight created partitions, then in diskmgmt.msc, select the partition and "Compress Volume". It's pretty safe. But the partitions are not primary, so Arch will constantly swear at LDM something there when loading. But it will work.