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Turns out that there is a built-in tool in Windows called MBR2GPT which allows you to convert your disk from MBR to GPT while in Windows. Thought I would post what worked in case someone else has this issue. Turns out the answer of MBR vs GPT Windows partitions was right under my nose. Update: I actually found a way to solve this issue and it worked. My BIOS is set to boot in either UEFI or legacy.
#CREATE BOOT PARTITION WITH GPARTED INSTALL#
Is there an easy way for me to set these three needed partitions up (boot, swap, root) so that I can install this alongside W10?
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I've read that one needs to make the boot/efi a primary partition, and the root and swap can be on logical ones. Trying then to make three more primary ones gives that error. Things would work smoothly if this were the case, but most base installs of Windows never are set up like that and typically make a "system reserved" partition and the OS on another partition. In the documentation on the PopOS website, the Windows dual boot example shown in the screenshot of Gparted shows Windows on only one NTFS partition. In the PopOS installer I set a partition for boot at 512MB and set it to FAT32, clicked ADD, and then went on to setup 8GB swap and ADD, but then when I tried to set up the last step for root /, I get that error telling me that I can't have more than 4 primary partitions. There is also more here that talks about confirming whether or not a drive is MBR or GPT using the Windows computer management's disk management tool and more to 0 I used disc mgmt to shrink my 1TB SSD by 300GB for this install leaving 700GB for Windows.