Then right click the extended partition again, and this time grab at the beginning and shrink the partition all the way to the right. to create free space at the beginning and press Apply.

One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

If you already have Windows installed, you can still dual boot Linux, but you'll need to create a new partition on your hard drive.

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of encrypting a single partition on a Linux machine.

To create a new partition, specify the size of the partition in the space provided in MB and click Shrink to start the process.