New linux user : manjaro doesn't recognize my partitions for installing

[soroush20]

hello everyone.
i want to switch from windows to linux and i choose to dualboot with manjaro.
i dualbooted manjaro with unetbootin to drive C without dvd or usb and it booted succesfully and the problem is when i want to install it, in the part when you choose the drive partition to install, it just show windows 10 partition(47gb) and unkown(463gb) and it dosen’t show my other 3 partitions that i have in windows disk management.
i tried formating my other partition from NTFS to FAT32 or exFAT but it didn’t help.

[cscs]

Hi and welcome.

@soroush20

unetbootin

Is not compatible with manjaro ISO last time I checked.

Please use another method.

(If you want my preferred it is ventoy)

[fbt89]

[root tip] [How To] Dual boot Manjaro and Windows

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[Aragorn]

Welcome to the forum!

@soroush20

i dualbooted manjaro with unetbootin to drive C without dvd or usb and it booted succesfully and the problem is when i want to install it, in the part when you choose the drive partition to install, it just show windows 10 partition(47gb) and unkown(463gb) and it dosen’t show my other 3 partitions that i have in windows disk management.

That is not the right way of doing it. Download Ventoy for Windows, prepare a USB stick with it, and then drag & drop the Manjaro ISO into the Ventoy folder on the stick. You will then be able to boot up from it, and even add other ISOs to the folder — it gives you a menu at boot time.

Ventoy

@soroush20

i tried formating my other partition from NTFS to FAT32 or exFAT but it didn’t help.

GNU/Linux is a UNIX-family operating system and must not be installed on a Microsoft filesystem. It requires a filesystem with UNIX/POSIX file ownership and permissions support. Microsoft filesystems do not support that.

Since you appear to be an absolute beginner, please allow me to post a couple of useful articles and tutorials.

[Consideration] Is Manjaro the right distribution for you?

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[Tutorial] Understanding and working with UNIX filesystems and permissions

Difficulty: ★★★☆☆ Note: This post is meant as a tutorial. Please do not post on this thread regarding any problems you’re having with permissions, but start a new thread instead. Thank you. PREAMBLE: THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND If you are new to the world of GNU/Linux ─ and especially if you come from the Microsoft Windows ecosystem ─ then you will undoubtedly have already noticed that GNU/Linux handles permissions and storage volumes quite differently from what you might be used to …

[Tutorial] Working with additional 'drives'

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ 1. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Windows started its life as a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS, a 16-bit single-user, single-tasking operating system that in turn originated as 86DOS, an unauthorized 16-bit rewrite (by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer) of Digital Research’s originally 8-bit CP/M operating system. Both CP/M and MS-DOS were at the time developed for computers that did not support any other storage media than floppy disks. Considering this legacy, Microsof…

[HowTo] Updating Manjaro as safely as possible

The golden rule — which nobody follows, of course — when using a rolling-release distribution…: Always apply the bundled updates by way of the command line in a tty while completely logged out of your graphical environment, so that no shared libraries will be in use that will be overwritten by the update process. The safest way even would be to cleanly reboot your system first before applying any updates, and to then switch to a tty and run the update process from there without logging into…

[soroush20]

Can I install with dvd ?

[soroush20]

I don’t have access to usb stick right now but I have dvd with. 4.7gb freespace . Can I use it for installing Manjaro? And how to do it?

2 : the reason I choose Manjaro was because I heard that it have very beautiful UI and it’s highly customizable and lightweight.
Is there any other distros that have same properties?
And good for beginners?

[Aragorn]

@soroush20

I don’t have access to usb stick right now but I have dvd with. 4.7gb freespace . Can I use it for installing Manjaro?

Yes, that will work too, but then you cannot use ventoy. You’ll need to use some other way to create the DVD, such as — if it still exists; it’s what Windows-using people at Usenet were talking about — Nero Burning ROM, which is a Windows program.

@soroush20

the reason I choose Manjaro was because I heard that it have very beautiful UI and it’s highly customizable and lightweight.

It all depends on which user interface you choose. Plasma is highly customizable, GNOME not so much, and Xfce sits somewhere in between. If it has to be lightweight, then Xfce wins.

The theming is however up to your own preferences. Manjaro does include its own themes for each of the official releases, but you can choose a different theme if you so like.

@soroush20

Is there any other distros that have same properties?
And good for beginners?

There are a couple. Check out distrowatch.com.

[soroush20]

Thank you so much !!

You are really helpful.

So I can use that software for making bootable dvds for install , right?

[cscs]

Pretty much anything that can do iso writing to cd/dvd should work.

Heres a random table

Comparison	Supported OS	Supported Disk	Burning Highlights	Technical Support
EaseUS Partition Master	Full version of Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows XP/Vista/Server	USB/DVD/CD	Strong support for burning ISO to USB	Online and remote technical service and support
Passcape ISO Burner	Windows XP - Windows 10	CD/DVD	Aim at creating bootable discs from ISO	Technical support
PowerISO	32-bit Windows 98/XP/Vista and 64-bit Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10	CD/DVD/USB	Strong support for all types of image files	Only tutorial support
Active@ ISO Burner	Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008	CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc	Suitbale for simple CD buring	Only contact support
Free ISO Burner	Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/8/Windows 10	CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc		No support
ImgBurn	Windows 95/98/Me/XP/2003/Vista/2008/2/8/10	CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc		Guides support
ISOBurn	Windows 8/8.1/10	CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc	Designed for ISO to disk converter	No support
AnyBurn	32-bit Windows 2000/XP/Vista and 64-bit Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10	CD/DVD/Blu-ray disc	For large file burning	No support
CD BurnerXP	Windows XP/Server/Vista/7/8/10 (x86 / x64)	CD/DVD		No technical support
WinISO	Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8	CD/DVD	Designed for disk image files	Guide from website

[Aragorn]

@soroush20

So I can use that software for making bootable dvds for install , right?

Yes, you can. Here’s the one that Windows users seem to recommend — I don’t use Windows, so I have no experience with it.

Download Burning ROM for free!

Be sure to burn the ISO as a filesystem image, not as a file that you put on the optical disk.