One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

This will create a backup of your VM in case something goes wrong. After all, editing drive partitions can be very dangerous if something goes wrong.

A SATA drive will only let you have a maximum of four partitions for example, and you will also need to create a small swap partition. When you come to install a Linux distro, make sure you select ...

When you create "Logical Partitions" within the "Extended Partition", Linux (and GRUB) start naming them after the four reserved names.

To create a new partition, specify the size of the partition in the space provided in MB and click Shrink to start the process.