[Solved] Step-by-Step Guide: Installing Windows 7 Alongside Linux Mint with USB & Handling Partitions

Hello,
I would like to ask you for help and to explain step by step what and how to do it. As a result of a few coincidences, I have a Mint that works pretty well, but needs programs that unfortunately don't work here (even for wine).
I would like to install windows 7, but it crashed when booting, so I did the format, but then messed it up, and finally the matter with my partitions looks like the picture below:
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Can anyone help me, how can I make partitions (with what program, step by step) that will be suitable for windows, I say in advance that I can not install it from a CD only from usb.

greetings

For a few programs, install Windows in VirtualBox.

First, I installed Windows and then Linux Mint with an iso image and made partitions on the linux disk for me. Currently you only have 1Mb and that's not enough to set up the system and partition NTFS.

willyvmm wrote:

For a few programs, install Windows in VirtualBox.

Anything more? I see there is virtualbox in the repository, but what next?
I need solidworks or inventor to run.

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PITERRR wrote:

First, I installed Windows and then Linux Mint with an iso image and made partitions on the linux disk for me. Currently you only have 1Mb and that's not enough to set up the system and partition NTFS.

Therefore, I am looking for help on how to make a partition in NTFS.

GParted and reduce the Linux partition so that there is a place to create a partition under Windows, but I do not know if it can be done because you have an ext4 boot and if it is possible to shorten this partition. Because linux may not boot afterwards.

PITERRR wrote:

GParted and reduce the Linux partition so that there is a place to create a partition under Windows, but I do not know if it can be done because you have an ext4 boot and if it is possible to shorten this partition. Because linux may not boot afterwards.

its size cannot be changed

Well, that's what I was afraid of and proposes to reset the disk, install win 7 and then Linux MINT.

Ok, that's what I already did, but there was a problem with booting. I tried to install the system from a flash drive and either it did not read, or when the installation of windows began, a blue screen appeared.
Can you clean up partitions from the BIOS level so that they are NTFS?

sunza wrote:

that's what I did before but there was a problem with booting

First you need to reset the disk with MHDD iso to pen. And after that you will be able to install Windows. And from the BIOS level, you won't do anything with Partitions.
https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic2125622.html

sunza wrote:

Ok, that's what I already did, but there was a problem with booting. I tried to install the system from a flash drive and either it did not read, or when the installation of windows began, a blue screen appeared.
Can you clean up partitions from the BIOS level so that they are NTFS?

As long as I live, I have never been able to install any system from a flash drive, and what did not come out of the flash drive, I always succeeded from the disc. So a piece of advice - if you're not going to devote your life to studying computer science, don't figure out why that's the case, just do what works. Get yourself an external DVD drive and install what you need.
Partitions do not have to be all NTFS, it is enough that one will be the one on which you want to install Windows. I would do NTFS as the basic one and all Linux in the extended one.
I understand that you may not waste the time devoted to installing and configuring Linux, but since you have reached the point that you do not care, clean the disk and re-create partitions, it means delete all and set up a new partition table.
You can do it, for example, in Parted Magic running with HirensBootCD.

sunza wrote:

its size cannot be changed

Maybe there would be some way to do that in the right program.
If you want to install Windows after installing Linux (and not the other way around) you will encounter a Linux boot problem that I suppose you won't be able to solve.

0. Make a data backup
1. Run linux mint from pendrive (I think the mint install is a live distribution).
2. On this distribution, live should be gparted. The ext4 partition on the hard drive is not mounted, so you should be able to shrink it.
3. Create an NTFS partition, at least 100GB just in case
4. Install windows.
5. Restart the mint pendrive.
6. In order for mint to run, you need to do spells according to the scheme:
https://dug.net.pl/tekst/77/przywraca_grub2_za_pomoca_chroot/
Your distribution will probably have grub2-install and update-grub2 instead of grub-install and update-grub.
And the drive will be called / dev / sda
grub-install / dev / sda (execute without partition number)
update-grub should create grub menu with mint boot by default and possible windows selection.

problem solved according to the instructions above