Delete sda5 and leave it unallocated.
And now I shall choose the partition to shrink in the installer sda3 (where windows is)
119GB - how much should i take for EOS? half?
20G is minimum, 30G plenty, I guess. Depending on your needsā¦
Okay. Now this is what I went with this time. Deleted sda5 and merged sda3 with that allocated space. Installed āalongsideā and chose the partition I needed to shrink and did 50/50 and started. But now the installer will not shrink the hd
https://0x0.st/H8Hy.txt
but now there is a log file 
The shrinking of the existing Windows partition must be done in Windows, prior to the installation of Linux.
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Okay Iāll try that then, though it seems like what I have done before, and that didnāt work. But Iāll give it a try
You need to reboot Windows, after shrinking itās partition, before trying to install Linux.
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I guess this was a bad idea. Installation stops at āinstalling bootloaderā - system freeze so no log files to see. I really suspect the machine to be the problemā¦maybe Iāll try again tomorow.
It was installed āalongsideā first option in the installer. Used the partition next to the one windows is on.
It must be something with the system/machine that donāt allow two bootloaders or something. strange.
something is going terribly wrong there 
if it would be my task I would go back to the very first beginning and
restore windows to its default.
Then next try to let install EOS āalongsideā by the installer itself.
If there is no problem with the machine, this should work successfully.
(Only my opinion without guarantee)
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You should test your RAM with Memtest86 or similar to see if you have a memory card going bad.
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do you use bitlocker or similar thing on windows?
can you reset your bios and check?
also a handy checklist to follow:
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Updated the BIOS to the latest version, and tried again. Ram is good also.
Still bad luck. Same issue - system freezes on bootloader install.
Found a video on youtube where somebody try to install another linux distro on the same kind of computer ACER Es1-533 and same problem for him. His did find a sollution where he kind of renamed the bootloader to something that the acer/windows locked system allowed. But then when updating his linux - things were broken again.
So I think that this Acer Es1-533 donāt deserve another try - I might just boot it from an usb iso and use it that way. Then I donāt have to look at windows anymore! But thanks everybody 
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I donāt have the windows files, since I bought the computer usedā¦so guess I canāt restore
So reduce your Windows partition to the minumum needed, if needed at all, or delete it completely, and try installing another distro, perhaps a Debian based one like MX, or 'Buntu just to see if it works?
Yes might try that
ERROR: Installation failed: āThe installation program canāt be faulty on partition /dev/sda3 on disk āKINGSTON RBUSC180DS37256GHā.ā
ā¦ - message: āThe installation program canāt do anything else on partition /dev/sda3 on disk āKINGSTON RBUSC180DS37256GHā.ā
ā¦ details:
Shrink partition ā/dev/sda3ā from 237.23 GiB to 118.62 GiB
Job: Check file system on partition ā/dev/sda3ā
Command: ntfsresize --no-progress-bar --info --force --verbose /dev/sda3
Checking partition ā/dev/sda3ā before resize/move failed.
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on windows 10 it should be possible by the system native tools:
start-preferences-update&safety-restoring
@j_c
I would boot into Windows and use the disc management tool under storage to shrink Windows C: drive to create an unallocated space to install EndeavourOS. Then try using the installer and you can select replace partition or use manual partitioning. If it doesnāt happen to see the unallocated space you could also use Windows and just create a new partition on the unallocated space formatted with ntfs first also before running the installer.
I already tried that further up the threadā¦didnāt work. I think it should be done in a way that we tried in the beginning of the thread where I install without booloader. That will work but then the next problem will be how to boot the installed EOS. I found this
reddit
or this
install linux on acer
so I guess it is something with ( --no-nvram option of grub-install) or systemd if thats better
but it might be too complicated for me
I think i would try install EndeavourOS without the boot loader. Then youāll have to boot again on the live ISO and arch-chroot to be able to install the boot loader.
I would follow the EndeavourOS wiki to arch-chroot. Once you do that then install the boot loader.
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/
grub-install --no-nvram
Then run the grub update command
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then exit the arch-chroot and reboot.
Not sure this will work but worth a try.
Not sure if this would work if OP is going to be installing Grub and set it up from scratch.
This will only install the bootloader to ESP but will not create an EFI boot entry in NVRAM.
I think the system will be unbootable if done so.
I might be wrong though 