Hi, So I am planning on dual booting Manjaro linux (XFCE version if it helps) by way of a live USB flash drive, I am following this guide for reference since I can't seem to find any other guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=616wvkZuco4 the guy remarks you can only have 4 primary partitions and I decided to check to see if I did so I wouldn't run into any problems and It looks like I do here are the partitions
1) 400 mb (healthy partition)
2) 300 mb (healthy EFI system parition)
3) Gateway (C:) 682.19 GB NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page file, Crash Dump primary partition)
4) 15.64 GB Healthy (Recovery partition)
750 GB hhd and 8GB of ram.
my question is what can I remove or edit to make room for Manjaro?
Thanks, Web
From the look of things you have a UEFI system. I'm assuming you purchased this system less than a couple years ago when Winblows 8 came out. If this is the case, then that hard drive is PROBABLY formatted with GPT.
"Back in the day" (and still true today) the use of "MBR" formatting of hard disks is/was used. This had a limitation of 4 partitions. Today with GPT formatting that limit has been lifted to some large integer I don't know.
If I'm correct in assuming your system is using GPT, you shouldn't need worry about the partition limit, and just keep creating more afterwards.
The trick to all of the UEFI business is that you're going to need to figure out how to dual boot. I don't have much experience with (U)EFI systems, unfortunately so all I can do for you is provide you with the good old, "RTFM" and consult the arch linux manual to look at the information there. Here are some links to get you started.
Make a backup before you do anything, and know how to recover it if you need to.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Boot_loaders
As noted, any MBR formatted disk has a limit of 4 Primary partitions, but there isn't any practical limit to the amount of logical partitions, and Linux is perfectly happy to boot off logical paritions, so you only need to free up one of the primary slots to create an extended partition, in which you can boat loads of logical partitions.
Deleting factory recovery partitions can have unforeseen consequences, and I did break a Windows install in the past by deleting a recovery partition. My advice is that if you do so, be prepared to reinstall Windows, with your data already backed up.
I did a little more research and all UEFI systems *must* be GPT formatted. So if I were you, I would:
- Reduce the size of the main C: partition
- Move the recovery partition right next to the C: partition
- Make my partitions as necessary. In the video, Spatry decided to make three partitions including one for root, home, and swap. Personally, I would only make one to lessen complexity, but if you want to follow his partitioning scheme you can.
What jerm1027 said is also true about logical partitions. Linux just don't care.
Me myself (if I were intending on dual-booting) -- I'd just ditch the recovery partition. One could re-install Windows anytime provided they have some boot media, but if you feel more comfortable keeping the recovery partition -- do so.
Okay so far I have cut my C: drive in roughly half but what do you mean "Move the recovery partition right next to the C: partition"? and how would I do that? would I have to go through the Gpart in manjaro?
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(click on partitons couldn't figure out how to add the photo itself) so here is what I am looking at when was trying to follow the video, for some reason I cannot select the extended partition option and I can't figure out why, will it make a difference? or should I carry on and skip over that part?
Select your sda4 part. Shrink it.
Then move sda5 directly to the right of sda4, leaving all unallocated space at the end of the disk. Then use the unallocated disk for your linux partitions.
how would I move it? Edit: figured out how to move it
now I have another question what does it mean EFI(/boot/efi) ? 
I did look into it and changed my FAT32 to a boot/efi mount point that cleared it up and I can go ahead with the apply the question is that the right way to go about it?
Manjaro looks like it has different icons for gparted (and probably other programs). In yours, the resize/move icon is to the right of the red x.
Your partitioning looks rather ugly. (114GB swap -- ridiculous). Also, I would be placing all of my linux parts after windows simply for organization.
Did any of this work out for you? Please just reply and don't do edits if you want immediate support, as I don't notice edits, but I do notice new posts.