I agree, very much not trivial problem. The fdisk output seems to indicate this is a traditional BIOS partitioned disk. You have unallocated space between partitions 2 and 3. You didn't say what the purpose is of the 3rd partition, but if Windows assigned a volume letter to it (D:) then it is probably not the recovery partition typically created by laptop vendors. Do you know for sure? And why 25GB? On my W10 disk installed vanilla with the Microsoft OEM disc, Windows created two recovery partitions, both less than 1GB and both of which while seen in Disk Management are not accessible to be changed or deleted. Does your Windows give you access to change partitions 3 and/or 4? I think you need to know what the purpose is for the 3rd partition, and what the consequences would be on this machine of removing it or the 4th partition. If you can remove the 3rd partition, you can possibly install on it. Same with the 4th partition. Cleanest solution is removing both 3 and 4. With any of these alternatives you will lose the vendor recovery mechanism; again important to know the implications of doing that. And having a disk image you can recover the whole disk from; that image should enable you to also recover individual files. If it cannot, you may need a second file-system backup. On Sat, Nov 5 02:52:41 PM Carlos E. R. wrote:
Creating a new partition when all 4 are in use is not trivial.
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