Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about Trisquel

[magicbanana]

Unless it changed after Windows XP (or that my memory really fails), the free  
space in Windows *is* usable by other systems. The Trisquel installer resizes  
the NTFS partition to then set the GNU/Linux partitions in the freed space.  
That said, it does not defragment the NTFS filesystem (which is very prone to  
fragmentation). If there is data all over the (physical) disk, then the  
Trisquel installer certainly reports a lack of space. The user just needs to  
defragment the NTFS partition and run Trisquel's installer again.

Can anybody, who recently liberated a Windows-haunted machine, confirm?