If I may add here?
1, Install Windows first. It will occupy the first two partitions unless you create a dedicated one for it.
2. Linux next.
3. Linux will see Windows is installed and craft a boot screen which presents both options.
Should you install Linux first, Windows will blatantly overwrite the Linux bootstrap thereby forcing you to use the ‘live USB’ and manually reinstall the bootloader. Easily doable but difficult for the beginner.
The drive is 500 GB how big should I go with the partition?
The drive I show above is a 1TB Samsung 2.5" SSD.
Since I was transferring windows, I had to maintain its size. If you are installing both fresh, you can do as you wish.
I would recommend
Partition - Begin-end
1 - 1049k - 250GB - Windows
Linux will take over from there automatically and allow you to preserve the Windows installation:
a) “mount sda1 as /win”
b) Be careful in the installer. Do not say to “Reformat” the patrition.
c) Do not use BTRFS - use XFS for Linux. Far more resilient and quicker than even ext4.
d) It will allocate for itself:
You should end up with
sda1 = Windows
sda2 = /boot
sda3 = swap
sda4 = / (the root partition, with /home in it)
It may trade the positions of sda3 and sda4. Do not be alarmed. It knows what its doing
After going through this process of changing drives I have realized a lot of the issues I’ve had are fixed. I’m not just talking about Windows. You know that I’ve had issues with Windows and transfer rates since the CPU patch fixes a few years ago. The speed issues were fixed with other patches that came out over time. Obviously my drive issue made things feel completely unresolved.
The headache of trying to install windows on another drive without unplugging the original install drive caused frustration and hours of pain. Doing a complete clean install has shown me that there is the possibility that some of the issues people are having with Plex could be explained by an in perfect OS.
(Tell me if I’m wrong) It seems that with Windows a patch on a patch with a patch for a patch, instead of a clean fix creates remnants of patches. How much is true I don’t know.
But this is what I have seen so far.
Live tv recording is clearer and without occasional micro blocking or video studders.
Commercial cutting is cleaner without audio jumps or lags.
less time starting videos and time jumps in videos on apps.
There may be other improvements as well that I haven’t noticed yet, or maybe it’s just because of the boot drive change???
I am still continuing with the dual boot, because I need to learn Linux. I’m not sure where Windows will be in 10-20 years (rummer of a cloud based system like Office 365)
I’d suspect most of what you see as an improvement is IO related. When you have a bad drive it can do all kinds of dastardly things. 
It never hurts to do a clean install however, Things pile up over time. Apps installed, removed, etc
“Clean and Mean” with only required apps is always the way to go for a server!
I’m just happy you got your issues resolved.
Congrats!
Ok so I have Ubuntu and Plex installed. I notice that my media drive s installed on the computer are seen sdb2 and sdc2. I believe the permissions should be good on both sides of the fence, but Plex can’t scan or find the file locations.
I put in a file locations as such /dev/sdc2/Movies
I figured it out. But why the difference between what I have above and /media/username/new volume?
You will want to change the mount location.
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