Emperor It is strange why GParted don't recognise that HDD. If you proceed in that situation you will lose your data there.

      Your video shows you are in a vbox. You have to shut down not reboot to switch from windows.

        CraigMatze algent Well I powered off the PC, un-plug it, then removed the sata and power cabels from HDD1(W10 disk) and then booted. The result was the same-exept this time there wasn't a W10 drive xD only 2TB unknown space 🙁
        I can pottentially copy all the files from that drive and move them to HDD1, but even if I do that I think I will lose some dependancies like Lightroom catalogs, previews etc.
        Isn't there something I can do?! The 2 HDD's are from the same brand-just one is 1TB and the other 2TB.

            [deleted] When I had to do that on windows I had to remove all dynamic partitions from that drive to create a new normal one. So it is not that easy.

                [deleted] Looks like it can but for the W10 HDD is showing me that IT IS basic and therefore I can convert it to dynamic.
                About the HDD 2 it's not showing me that kind of options.
                I can change HDD 2 from GPT to MBR...I can also change one partition from HDD1 to logical and delete the backup W10 partition.

                    That GPT Disk looks very complex.

                    Probably you should install a third HDD 160GB at least to play with it.

                      algent Or on HDD1 make one partition logical...delete the backup for W10 and I will have 2 free. The only problem is that I will have to use W10 bootloader...unless I delete it and make a fat32 512MB one for Solus, but I am not sure if it will work or not damage W10?

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                        JacekJagosz I said convert on purpose. From what I googled it's possible to convert a full disk to basic.

                        Emperor What do you mean with the W10 HDD?

                              [deleted] Simply the HDD where the W10 is installed.
                              The other HDD(HDD 2) is GPT disk that can't be recognised by GPartition.

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                                  Emperor And you're trying to install Solus on the GPT disk?

                                      [deleted] Yes I tried...I deleted one 128MB windows file, that was safe to remove, but I couldn't delete another 16MB file...but when I opened Gpartition it gave me the ability to delete that windows system file...big mistake-now I am running easeus Data Recovery, because I literately got an empty HDD 2....and it looks like it's finding a lot of old shit, that I deleted long time ago...I will have to spend some hours going trough this mess and hope everything is OK.
                                      For now I had enough 😂
                                      Later I may try again...

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                                          Emperor Oh, condolences. Might be actually better to backup as much as possible and then start the HDD 2 from scratch.

                                              [deleted] That's what I am doing-actually I don't think I had other choice-the only problem is to find if there is something missing and my main folder there was around 550GB...now it's 850GB...I will have to search manually not only to clean, but also because I have ,,only'' 650GB to put the restored data.

                                                @[deleted] @algent Well I've losted all data on HDD2...most of it was not important or I can re-download it, but the Lightroom catalog is gone. That being said I;ve got nothing to lose to install Solus there-even now it's recognizing it 🙂 But I've got no idea how Linux handles files or folders.

                                                Should I delete it and create partition only with Gparted...also are they gonna show up in windows like E drive or something? And how to create simply a large partition for pictures and videos that is easy to read/write by both Solus and Windows...Is that what they say to be /home? And if I want to resize it or create new partitions is it safe to do so from easeus(W10) or only from Gparted?
                                                Is Linux OS going to appear in W10 like C drive or something?What about the swap.
                                                After they are on separate disks I have to install another bootloader?
                                                Update: after I imported the files in Lightroom it appears that the editing data is saved on DNG files...after I don't really care about that history it is safe to say that I saved 80% of the important information 😁
                                                I can for sure recover at least 15% more of the important information, because I still have the torrents/names of the missing files...it will just take time...a lot of time and wi-fi 😂

                                                  Emperor To install linux you have to Format the partition with ext4 file system, and ext4 partitions are not vizible from Windows. If you need some HDD 2 space to be visible in both systems then i recommend you to create two partitions.
                                                  Assuming it is the sda drive.
                                                  One for linux Extended. This one can bi partitioned on four logical partitions.
                                                  On Linux side
                                                  (sda1) Extended

                                                  1. (sda5) EFI with Fat32 File System around 512MB minimum i think (since you have UEFI system)
                                                    Here i can't help you how to mount it, because i don't have experience on UEFI systems.
                                                    Maybe it is /boot/efi. You have to do your research.
                                                  2. (sda6) Swap with linuxswap File System (if you need swap)
                                                  3. (sda7) Root partition with ext4 File System (30 GB is enough), it depends how much are you going to install on it.
                                                    on sda7 you have to mount root point (/ )
                                                  4. (sda8) Home Partition with ext4 File System (with remaining GB left from Extended partition)
                                                    on sda 8 you have to mount /home

                                                  And for Windows
                                                  (sda2) Primary with NTFS
                                                  PS, you can add other two primary partition if you want, their names will be sda3 and sda4 (Mas primary partitions are always 4, this is universal law as i know, it is not a linux thing or windows thing).