Re: Questions regarding dual booting with Windows 8.1

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On 12/15/2017 11:21 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
Hello,

I have to install Windows 8.1 so that Dell technician can troubleshoot my system. I have not installed Windows in years, so, I wanted to confirm the process before destroying my system.

I will create a 50GB partition for Windows 8.1. I installed Fedora with automatic partitioning. As a result, home partition which I will resize is in middle. Is it okay to resize the partition in the middle to install Windows?

$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238.5G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0   200M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0 197.3G  0 part /home
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0    20G  0 part [SWAP]
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0    20G  0 part /

Once I have installed Windows, it will probably overwrite Grub and possibly UEFI entries. Do I simply have to reinstall the Grub for Fedora to start detecting it as a second OS.
grub2-install /dev/nvme0n1
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

Do I have the process correctly understood?
In the past, I have had problem with windows which
were not installed on the first partition.
So, if I were you, I would simply remove current drive,
and insert a small HD and install windows on it, and then
let your techies look into your hardware to see what's wrong.
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