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ZacharyMoore
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Sep 18, 2026

Bitlocker is blocking me from partitioning my drive – can't dual boot because of it

My PC's about 7 years old and starting to slow down, so I wanted to try Linux. But I still need Windows for school, so I figured I'd set up a dual boot.

Problem is, when I tried to shrink the partition, Bitlocker blocked me. I've been looking for a fix but haven't found anything that actually works.

Disk 1 in the screenshot is just a USB drive, not the main one.

Specs: i3-7020U, 4GB RAM, 516GB HDD. Anyone know how to get past this?

 

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