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<blockquote data-quote="Brahman" data-source="post: 1026140" data-attributes="member: 11847">The best method with Ubuntu, is to make a free space of 20 Gb in your OS drive and while installing choose the option to &quot;install alongside windows&quot; and Ubuntu will do the rest. When you are in doubt of what all partitions are needed for installation of a Linux distribution,&nbsp; accept that you are not qualified enough for manual partitioning, go the automatic way. An error in making the partition in your os drive would make your system in a non bootable state. So understand what you are doing and do it only when you are 100% sure about it.Now to answer your question, if your windows is in uefi mode, then you don&#039;t need to create another /boot/efi partition, Ubuntu will automatically select that efi folder for installation of its grub files. If it fails to select the existing &quot;/efi&quot; partition, select it manually, don&#039;t create another boot partition. Make a bootable windows usb and make an image back up before whatever you do with your os drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brahman, post: 1026140, member: 11847"] The best method with Ubuntu, is to make a free space of 20 Gb in your OS drive and while installing choose the option to "install alongside windows" and Ubuntu will do the rest. When you are in doubt of what all partitions are needed for installation of a Linux distribution, accept that you are not qualified enough for manual partitioning, go the automatic way. An error in making the partition in your os drive would make your system in a non bootable state. So understand what you are doing and do it only when you are 100% sure about it. Now to answer your question, if your windows is in uefi mode, then you don't need to create another /boot/efi partition, Ubuntu will automatically select that efi folder for installation of its grub files. If it fails to select the existing "/efi" partition, select it manually, don't create another boot partition. Make a bootable windows usb and make an image back up before whatever you do with your os drive. [/QUOTE]

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