Installing Windows

• Rufus

Downloaded Educational version of Windows 10. Created a bootable drive with Rufus.

Issues with UEFI vs Legacy/CSM boot

When I was first trying I had UEFI boot disabled in my BIOS. This meant that the Windows live boot was unable to create the paritions as desired. The error message was not very helpful at all, and so I had plenty of fun exploring other solutions before I found the right one.

Shrinking Windows

Using Disk Management I was only able to shrink the drive to 250 GB. I disabled pagefile and hibernation features, utilitized Disk Cleanup and Disk Defrag and yet it still wouldn’t let me shrink it. Finally I resorted to using a third party tool, MiniTool. It worked like a charm and was much more intuitive than the tools provided by Windows.

Migrating Ubuntu install from old parition

• How to Migrate Ubuntu installed on a LVM Logical Volume from a MBR disk to a GPT disk on non-(U)EFI hardware without data loss

This part was made so easy because my old parition was using LVM. There are many good articles for reference.