Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm missing something.

I switched the BIOS so the DVD wasn't part of UEFI boot because my Neon DVD booted in UEFI mode and when I wanted to install alongside Windows 7 it complained that was in legacy mode, which it would be. When I rebooted the live disk there still wasn't an "install alongside Windows 7" option.

Is there a link to a writeup? I can't be the only one who needs to do this, can I? Do I need to manually shrink the Windows partition and manually select the install partition? Been building machines all day and might just be burned out at this point.

Baring a writeup . . .

Is there a link to an article about migrating the primary partition from one drive in a different machine to a primary partition which occurs after the other primary boot partitions on a drive. I did back it up with Image for Linux, but that won't let me restore to a different location. Maybe I need to manually shrink the Windows 7 partition and am just too tired to realize. I did tell Windows to only use half the drive during install, but it might have ignored my request. I do have the original drive in the original machine so I could pull it out into a carrier for copying via System Rescue CD or something like that.

Thanks,

Try installing KDE Neon in UEFI like Windows. It should work that way. Unless I misunderstood and you had installed Windows in legacy mode? When dual-booting, install the second OS in the same mode as the first or it might not be seen. So if Windows was first and is in legacy, install Linux in legacy. If Windows was first and is in UEFI, install the appropriate Linux distro in UEFI also. Ubuntu based distros like Mint and KDE Neon should be able to install UEFI now.

There is a partition manager in the installation disk and there is a guided option and a manual option for partitioning.