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Linux partition possibility

A normal linux installation requires at least two partitions. It usually improves performance to more partitions.

Disk be divided into 4 partitions.
About 33% to linux bootable

About 33% to Windows bootable
Windows requires residency on the first primary partition

128M to swap
Note that a filesystem optimized for memory caching improves performance, that partition must have a filesystem supported by the operating system that will use it.

About 33% to data
This partition should be used by either or both OS if is compartible, it will be used for data, and can have any filesystem. The Windows bootable partition must be one of the filesystems supported by Windows, the linux bootable partition must be one of the filesystems supported by linux.