Windows 10 does not want to create a UEFI partition because Linux?

cr
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I want to install Windows 10 on my laptop next to Linux Ubuntu because games run better on the Intel Windows drivers. Now Windows wants to create EFI partition etc. In addition to the main partition, but since there's already one from Ubuntu it doesn't want to create its own, how can I solve this without deleting the Ubuntu EFI partition?

St

https://www.ip-insider.de/so-richten-sie-linux-im-dual-boot-mit-windows-ein-a-899556/

cr

Not very helpful, in the article Windows was already on it, if that were the case for me, I would have been able to do it that way, Ubuntu doesn't bother with something like that

Te

I'm not very familiar with Linux, but I would simply free up space from there with g-parted and then create a new partition in it with Windows. Don't know why Windows shouldn't do that.

Ru

The problem is not new.
It is generally recommended to first install Windows and then Ubuntu.

Af

As hans39 already correctly writes… First Windows and then Ubuntu… You don't need a G-Parted… You can do everything with in-house tools from Windows and Ubuntu.

First Windows and then Ubuntu this is important… Why I will explain to you later… It takes too long here.

cr

Yes, I know that it is so easy, I actually had no load on Windows at all (I would only have known about Intel's drivers), so I ask here

cr

Windows thinks that an EFI partition is ready, but it belongs to Ubuntu

mo

In the order Linux, then Windows with the MBR always led to Windows overwriting the Linux boot loader.

I can't say what it looks like with EFI. The existing / boot / efi does not belong to Ubuntu. This is a partition created with a FAT file system, which Windows can also read and write.
If you can get Windows to skip creating such a partition (no idea if that works) then Windows could use the existing one.
I have entries from openSuSE and Manjaro in the same partition, i.e. Two Linux operating systems. Each system has its own directory.

If that doesn't work, you should consider whether Ubuntu can be reinstalled.
If you have your own partition for / home, it shouldn't be a problem to get it and then integrate it into the new Ubuntu.
Can't be that easy with Ubuntu, because without an active superuser I don't know how. But you can exhume it with sudo passwd root.