making room for linux

[Dawes, Stephen]

Gene, try 14 and 10. So you are right when you say, not so little.

Stephen Dawes 


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From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of acollins at icsmail.net
Sent: 2011 November 23 12:52 PM
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Subject: Re: making room for linux

Well, that shows what I know about Windows 7, since I retired before it
came out, but the process is still the same, shrink the partition, split
it, and have at it with your favorite distro.  (grin)

Hey steve, how the little one, who ain't so little any more, right? 
(grin)

Gene

>Well, you don't need to use a 3rd disk partition tool any longer. Windows 7 al
lows you to shrink and grow partitions at will including on the fly. The one pa
rtition you can immediately clear off is the one containing the install media. 
Back up this to a DVD and you have new free space. I know you asked in the past
, and I still stand by suggestion of making use to a virtual solution. Also be 
forewarned that if you do make major changes to partitions you may void the war
ranty. So, carve out a 50 / 60 GB virtual space and have at it.
>
>JMHO
>
>Stephen Dawes
>
>
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>Sent: 2011 November 23 11:23 AM
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>Subject: Re: making room for linux
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>Hi Chuck.  You should look at the drive partitions, and figure out which
>of them are used for the Windows os, and which are user data space.
>Then if necessary, you can use partition magic or some other partition
>management software to split one of the partitions if necessary.  You
>should defragment the partition before you use partition magic or any
>other partition management software that can handle ntfs partitions.
>After you've freed up the disk space you require, you can install the
>linux distro of your choice on it, and claim whatever free data space or
>partition you want for your home partition.  You will of course need to
>inform your favorite Linux boot loader of how to boot your windows
>partition afterwards.  Hope this helps.
>
>Gene
>>My new laptop came with Windows 7 installed on it, and I want to create
>>space on the HD to install Linux.  I was expecting Windows to be in
>>a single partition, but I find it is spread over three partitions,
>>occupying the entire 500 GB disk.
>>
>>Any tips about how to handle this twist would be appreciated.  I might
>>never use windows, but others might, if I can preserve it.
>>
>>--
>>Chuck in Hudson.
>>Web address: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net, Messenger JID: chuckh1 at jabber.org
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