>be me 21 physics uni student looking to get into homelabbing
>a new initiate to linux and the /g/tranny cult but not totally clueless always been relatively good with tech compared to my peers (and also took a 1st year CS course on linux and bash)
>try out Ubuntu LTS for my shitty hand-me down laptop from 2012 with no graphics card (poorfag) because it can barely run windows 10 because of bloat
>goooooood, verygood.exe
>decide to install Ubuntu dual boot for my windows 10 desktop
>split my HDD into two partitions, etch USB, boot USB, install in partition, install fine
>do some finishing touches on the partitions merging unallocated data on gparted
>huh, I’ll just make one extra shared exFAT partition for shared storage"
>more than 4 partitions on MBR disk
>windows: dynamic disk time :)
>ubuntu: LDM data partition, idk bro
>disk management says the drive is gone start panicking
>spend copious time trying to reverse what I did apparently windows sees 4+ partitions as invalid and I have to revert it to a simple volume
>eventually delete partition in disk manager and the data comes back, feel smart
>finally open gparted to finally finish this
>gparted: "still dynamic lol"
>apparently because I went over 4 windows marked by drives with a dynamic tag basically corrupted my shit for little reason, need to convert it to simple even though windows already knows it NTFS
>download 3 different free partition tools
>all want $50 to press 1 button
>fuck this
>decide backup 150gb worth of stuff
>backup 500GB to USB drive, ETA: 3 hours