On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have a new Dell Vostro laptop and I want to add Debian to it. It has > Windows 7 Home Premium on it. When I went into the Windows 7 disk manager > all I could get was 1/2 of the C partition - 143 GB for Debian, and it > reserved the other 143 GB for Windows 7, even though it is only using 16GB > of the disk! > > Is this some evil trick by Microsoft to keep people from dual booting, or > is > there some reason Windows 7 needs all 143 GB for itself when all the files > on the disk amount to 16GB??? What am I missing? > > Can I just use gparted to resize the drive the way I want it - 40GB or 60GB > for Windows and the rest for a real operating system like Debian? ;-) > > Thanks! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Mark, It's a limitation in Vista and Win7 forever whatever reason. Parted will work just fine. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
