On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 13:48, François Patte <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 31/12/2019 à 16:29, George N. White III a écrit :
> > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 at 04:59, François Patte
> > <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     Bonjour,
> >
> >     I want to install fedora in dual boot with windows 10 on a dell
> laptop
> >     (latitude 3500) on which windows is preinstalled.
> >
> >     I firstly boot on an usb stick with Gparted in order to resize the
> >     partitions but Gparted doesn't "see" the SSD...
> >
> >
> > Is your SSD and NVMe or SATA device?  You can shink the Windows 10
> > partition using Windows "Computer Management" --> Storage --> "Disk
> > Management".    Select the Volume and look for "Shink Volume" in the
> menu.
> >
> > I recently installed Fedora 31 in a dual boot configuration on a Dell
> > Desktop
> > with NVMe SSD and UHD graphics.  For laptops, graphics and networking
> > are sometimes problematic, but UHD graphics should be OK, so if your
> > network works in a "Live" USB system you should be in good shape.
> >
> >
> >     I disabled the secure boot, but nothing has changed, Gparted sees
> only
> >     its own partition and nothing else.
> >

>     I have the last version of Gparted ( 1.0.0-5).
> >
> >     Could anybody help me? I don't know anything of windows which I never
> >     used...
> >
> >
> > I've used Windows shrink volume for years to make space for Linux and
> never
> > had a problem, but Windows 10 is not robust.    It also does behind the
> > scenes
> > snapshots and disk cleanups, so I find disk usage goes up and then down
> by
> > 30 GB following updates.
>
> Thank you for this answer. I am presently completely blocked: something
> went wrong and the computer is blocked by a "defaultuser0"..... This
> seems to be a clever invention from microsoft and it is absolutely
> unclear how I can recover: I can't restore anything, the system falls
> back to this "user" and there is no way to know what is the password
> associated!
>

Were you able to boot Windows after disabling secure boot?  Have you tried
re-enabling secure boot?

You should be able to restore the Dell factory configuration per
https://www.dell.com/support/home/ca/en/cadhs1/drivers/osiso/recoverytool/WT64A



>
> Sigh!
>
> Moreover, I can't resize the partitions to install linux because the
> ntfs partition is crypted (bitlocker).
>

If you have files you want to save on the NTFS partition you can
try "dislocker" (available thru "dnf install dislocker").

I am stuck!
>

You can always revert to the factory configuration using
https://www.dell.com/support/home/ca/en/cadhs1/drivers/osiso/recoverytool/WT64A

-- 
George N. White III
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