Dual Boot Mint & Win 10 partition problems

[Mike9746]

I have an old Sony Viao, updated to Win 10, and I am trying to dual boot Mint 20 or Mint 19.3.
Everything goes along nicely until I get to creating the Linux Partition.

I used the Win 10 Disk Management to shrink the main volume, no problems and it shows 11.62 GB as Unallocated. So far so good.

BUT, when I then boot Mint 20 or Min 19.3 (tried both) and get to the create root/swap/home section
Linux shows 12583 MB as unusable.
The Plus sign used to create the root/swap/home is grayed out.

What went wrong and now what do I do?

MIKE

[myface68]

Mint 20 do not use swap

[Moonstone Man]

Mint 20 do not use swap

Pfft. Get your facts straight.

[Moonstone Man]

What went wrong and now what do I do?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/810390/ ... free-space
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1100898 ... u-unusable

[myface68]

My facts: Clean install on 2 ssd drives. Mint 19.3 no swap and Mint 20 on second hdd no swap. I let the install decide.

[Moonstone Man]

My facts:

Your facts != actual facts.

[Mike9746]

Kadaitcha Man

Thanks for the links, will give them a read and see if I can get this working.