On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Matthias Johnson < [email protected]> wrote:
> Another thing to keep in mind is the 200 MB recovery partition 7 creates > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Recovery_Environment. It apparently > doesn't follow standard use of sectors when partitioning though I > haven't personally looked. > http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-avoid-200mb-hidden-system-partition-from-been-created-during-windows-7-installation/ > I tried having linux and 7 on the same drive unsuccessfully without an > additional drive for lilo to be written to. You may have better luck with > grub2 and the drive was only a 40 SSD so with 7's constant increase in size > with every windows update I decided to just have one OS anyway. Many people > have both so it is possible > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot The thing I would be > curious about is whether you can use the recovery partition when not if > windows takes a crap. > > > That shouldn't be a problem, I install Windows on HDDA (1TB), Linux on HDDB (1TB), put backups on HDDC(2TB), and shared files on HDDD(250GB). The only tricky part is making sure I pick the correct HDD to install each OS on. ;-) -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net
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