Solus OS Budgie is a Windows-based operating system designed for budget-friendly devices.
Solus OS Budgie is a Windows-based operating system designed for budget-friendly devices.
You would shrink the current partition, create a fresh one using NTFS, and note that Windows will remove your bootloader—consider obtaining a boot manager instead.
The system blocks further reduction of the /dev/sda/3 partition. A boot manager is software that helps start up the operating system.
It's not possible to reduce the size of ext4 when it's already mounted, so you must start with a live system and then resize it.
3. Create a backup.
4. Reduce partition size.
5. Set up Windows and wait for the boot process to succeed, otherwise install GRUB.
I don’t need to worry about saving data on Linux; this is just for my dad who doesn’t like it. After shrinking the partition, would I return to BIOS and load the hard drive again? And if the bootloads aren’t working, how would I set up GRUB?
If you ignore Linux, simply erase it and set up Windows instead, dual booting might become tricky.