Bob Bernstein wrote: > Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell with Win7 already on > its 160g sata hard drive. > > I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot machine. I only want wheezy > on this for now. > > Question: can I entrust to the Debian installer the task of repartitioning > and formatting the HD with all that Windoze cruft already on it?
If you delete all the windows partitions, create new partition(s), install Debian and install a new boot loader, you should get no problems from windows. Last time I bought a notebook, I decided to keep Windows 7 around for diagnostic purposes. I found that Partition Wizard[1] Live CD by Minitool, can handle all of the issues in shrinking a windows partition to create space for another OS. This was much easier than the windows partition resizing tool, which is trickly, limited and awkward as hell. Cheers > Or, are there steps I ought to take prior to launching the installer, > perhaps involving other disk tools? I don't trust what M$ puts on hard > drives! 1. http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html > TIA Debian peeps! -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150328084137.GA24759@sprite