Re: Questions regarding dual booting with Windows 8.1
On 12/15/2017 11:21 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
Hello,
I have to install Windows 8.1 so that Dell technician can troubleshoot my system. I have
not installed Windows in years, so, I wanted to confirm the process before destroying my
system.
I will create a 50GB partition for Windows 8.1. I installed Fedora with automatic
partitioning. As a result, home partition which I will resize is in middle. Is it okay to
resize the partition in the middle to install Windows?
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 1G 0 part /boot
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 197.3G 0 part /home
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 20G 0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 20G 0 part /
Once I have installed Windows, it will probably overwrite Grub and possibly UEFI entries.
Do I simply have to reinstall the Grub for Fedora to start detecting it as a second OS.
grub2-install /dev/nvme0n1
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg
Do I have the process correctly understood?
In the past, I have had problem with
windows which
were not installed on the first partition.
So, if I were you, I would simply remove current drive,
and insert a small HD and install windows on it, and then
let your techies look into your hardware to see what's wrong.