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1“Could it still be a recovery partition?” - No; it contains no data.– RamhoundCommented May 14 at 2:22
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@Ramhound I've seen many posts of people saying that their recovery partition is showing as 100% free, even if it is in fact the recovery partition.– slacleCommented May 14 at 2:31
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Recovery partition isn’t supposed to be the first partition, it’s also optional, and can be recreated if by some oddity the partition actually is your recovery partition. A recovery partition that is useable is never 100% free. Your system partition is also your boot partition which will prevent you from dual booting.– RamhoundCommented May 14 at 2:38
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@Ramhound You mean I won't be able to install Linux as dual boot? There's no way I'll be able to? What would happen if I tried to install Linux?– slacleCommented May 16 at 0:32
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In order to dual boot your boot partition cannot be the same partition as Windows. You can reinstall Windows 7 in a standard configuration and then dual boot but you will run into issues trying to dual boot with the partition schema you have today. Which is why a VM is probably the way to go– RamhoundCommented May 16 at 15:04
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