I’m daily driving garuda linux Dragonized and I want to dual boot windows 11 with it, How would I go about partitioning the disk?
I know this may sound like a stupid question but anything else i found about this is in the installer for garuda.
Garuda is a bird that you don’t drive - you fly it 
Windows and Linux are best kept separately on two drives.
We could help you better if you would post your garuda-inxi as requested by the template.
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- If you want to dual-boot with Windows (this is unsupported)!
- Make sure you install Windows first. This is technically optional if you have a UEFI system and know your way around changing the default bootloader, but installing Windows first is the easier way.
- Make sure to select “install alongside” in the partitioning step in the installer.
If you install M$ as second OS, you must later repair the grub part with the live ISO via chroot.
Just search in the forum, it’s explained often.
Using on one drive is possible, repair just grub.
lsblk -f | grep 'nvme|NAME'
NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
nvme0n1
├─nvme0n1p1 vfat FAT32 SYSTEM_DRV 94BA-ECE1 223,9M 13% /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2
├─nvme0n1p3 ntfs Windows-SSD A2A8BB95A8BB6707 77,6G 40% /run/media/sgs/Windows-SSD
├─nvme0n1p4 ntfs WINRE_DRV B8F6BC25F6BBE234
├─nvme0n1p5 btrfs KDE fc62cc44-07ab-497b-ac89-15704c290993 62,9G 82% /var/log
├─nvme0n1p6 btrfs Sway 164f2dfe-ce11-4d5f-aa4c-ce24aa6cdd6a 33,1G 32% /mnt/nvme0n1p6
├─nvme0n1p7 btrfs i3wm 21e02e96-0ed6-4629-9a39-85ffee7a4359 186,7G 38% /run/media/sgs/i3wm
└─nvme0n1p8 btrfs Hyprland b147dd48-f302-484d-80b0-661e7ff40a76 54,2G 56% /run/media/sgs/Hyprland
If something goes wrong, and you can’t help your self,
we wrote before, dual-boot with Windows is unsupported
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Hey, I’ve had great success while manually partitioning. Just make sure you make a separate boot partition for Garuda, and do NOT use/select the Windows boot partition. The installer should recognize the Windows boot partition and create an entry for it automatically on GRUB.
Make sure to select the partition where Garuda is installed as preferred boot in your BIOS, so that it loads GRUB, and from there you can boot to Garuda or Windows etc.
Now in your case, since Garuda is already installed but Windows 11 isn’t, just make sure you properly separate it and perhaps somewhere in Garuda boot settings you can make it “re-configure” so it detects your Windows installation. Not sure though 
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https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/advice-for-a-dual-boot/36260/3?u=kresimir
If you really need windoze, I suggest running it in a VM.
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Completely d’accord.
From a technical point of view, dual boot is not a problem with anything, and Garuda Linux makes it particularly easy. Of the two or three Arch Linux distros whose philosophy I value, Garuda is the only one whose GRUB menu I can scroll up and down with pleasure. I don’t even know how to express my gratitude for this provision. A smooth +¹ for Garuda. 
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Hi, did you ever found out how to do this? i am in the same boat, also still a beginner so yeah it seems complicated.
I’ve been dual booting Garuda and Windows11 for a few years. I can’t remember the last time i went into Windows though. It was relatively easy. I have them both on separate drives. Install Windows using all the disk. There are lots of tutorials of how to install Windows on unsupported hardware.
Then install Garuda, let it use half of the Windows install partition and it will work it all out.
If I had only one disk, and chose to do this again, I would definitely install QEMU and Virtual-Manager and run Windows11 in a VM. My install was years ago before I discovered VM’s.
Be mindful though with Windows11 M$ Recall is just around the corner.
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When using QEMU and VM there is no need for installing Windows OS on drive? is it like a program you install on Linux?
I already have Garuda and i do not want to delete it or reinstall it, as i have alot of files on here that i like to keep, and not enough external drive to put it on. (not sure if i can create a backup for that?)
See the Arch Wiki, or perform a search to find information that has been documented many times over.
Yeah, i found it already, im not looking for a VM though.