gparted suggestions?

[Patrick Bouldin]

Hi, I am re-partitioning a corrupted drive on a Lenovo laptop with an i5. Do not need to save data, I'm starting over.

So, I have booted to a USB with gparted tool. I would like to have two partitions, one for qubes and one for windows 10. I would also like to have it boot to something that asks me where to boot, either qubes or windows 10, so maybe that's another partition.

Being brand new to gparted I don't know how best to set it up.

If you have experience with this I'd appreciate any suggestions before I dive in.

Thank you,
Patrick

[cooloutac]

I would just use the installer to partition and wouldn't bother using gparted first. You can use a linux installer and then just leave unallocated space for windows installer. Actually windows 10 ruined my baremetal debian partition when installing it, so you might want to install windows 10 first. You can also just shrink the partition from within windows 10 after you install it. then use linux installer on the unallocated space. You gonna have to modify grub to be able to dual boot windows and qubes either way.

[Patrick Bouldin]

Thanks. Ok, can you recommend the linux installer, or are you saying just do the allocation from a USB boot to a linux iso installer?

Thank you,
Patrick

[Unman]

The Qubes installer contains tools that allow you to partition the
drive and allocate space for Qubes while reserving space for another
OS.
There is reasonable guidance on dual booting in the docs:
www.qubes-os.org/doc/multiboot/

I haven't used Windows in quite a while but I suspect you might be
better off installing it first, then Qubes.