What is the best way to partition a disk?

Question

linux

My desire to test Ubuntu did not last long. :D I want to go back to my native Windows. But I don’t want to completely get rid of Ubuntu yet, I want to leave it as a second OS. Now I have the following disk layout: Tell me, can I now partition my sda7, while retaining all the files (because a very small part of the partition is used there so far)? I want to separate just a part of it under Windows and format it in NTFS by itself. It is also interesting whether the partition type is important to Windows. All sorts of basic, logical, etc. Because Now I put the bootloader on the main partition.

Answer 1

It turns out that you have a payload on this screw - fifty gigs.
And it is broken completely mediocre - everything is in a logical volume.
I would save the desired file and repartition the disk again.
And not under MBR (after all, Windows didn’t pull enough to install XP?), But under GPT - and forget that partitions are logical.
And the efforts to install systems do not need to be spared. This is practice, it does not spoil from repetition at all, on the contrary.

Answer 2

You write to a Gparted live usb flash drive and separate the piece from the desired section.

Answer 3

Plusanu Adamos . Save and repartition. Leave a gig of one hundred or two hundred unallocated area - just in case if you are drawn to experiments again :) But it should be exactly an unallocated area - so that later you can, without touching Windows, install and demolish a bubuntu or something else.