Hi,
I have a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad E14 Gen 4 with Windows 11 preinstalled. I am going to install Xubuntu too so that I will have partitions of some tens of GB for Windows and Xubuntu and most of the hard-drive for an ext4 data partition.
Currently, the 256 GB hard-drive has three partitions: 260 MB EFI system partition, 240 GB Windows C and 2 GB recovery partition.
Is it possible to install Xubuntu so that the original recoverable Windows installation is not disturbed or do I need to reinstall Windows? I mean, it should be possible to shrink the Windows partition to free space for Ubuntu and data partitions, but would that inavoidably break the recoverability or is there a way to modify the partitioning and install Xubuntu without breaking anything?
If it is not possible, I will reinstall Windows.
By the way, this question may be too specific to this particular laptop model, but I am trying anyway.
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