On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Mick wrote: > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is > flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) > tools. > I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up partition and > is > meant to be used to restore the OS in the third partition. This confuses me > a > bit - shouldn't the third partition which houses the OS be flagged as > bootable > instead?
Take a look at this http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 itself. Google also suggests you can chainload Windows 7 in the usual way using grub. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
