I found a video that explained root, swap, primary, boot, and a few others. Notes were taken. It showed the purpose of each type of partition and how to create them using Gparted. I went into the live USB and tried working with the largest partition and dividing it. That failed. The program wouldn't give me the choice to divide it.
The tutorial video wasn't very old. So perhaps the tutorial had outdated information.
While seeking tutorials, another video was found. It was about how somebody had given up Windoz for a GNU/Linux distro. It was inspiring. When I went to do a clean installation with just GNU/Linux it failed.
It got to 70% and failed. The existing partitions and Windoz OS were gone. Upon restarting there were no boot loaders so the laptop just grabbed the live USB and booted into it. I tried again and got the same error message. Fortunately I created a Windoz recovery drive. All that could be done was to insert the recovery drive and see if it would work. It did. It took a long time but now the HDD is 100% Windoz 10... again. At least this starting point should make it easier to dual boot the computer or do a clean installation. By the way, the check sum was checked and it was an uncorrupted live version. Holy cow. I'm actually grateful that Microsoft created a way to save a computer for us ignorant people.
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