--- In [email protected], "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote: > > I saw a problem with one computer running Win 7 in making it a dual boot > system. To fix it, I did quite a bit--but some of what I did was probably > overkill. However, to give a rundown: > > First, I did a clean reinstall of Windows 7 from the rescue partition on the > machine. > > (I also made a set of recovery DVD's (five of the darned things in the case > of Win 7 Home Premium!) so I'd have them if anything wound up trashing the > recovery partition.) > > Next, I removed all the "crapware" the manufacturer had installed--the "free > trials" and such that junk up an OEM Windows system so often. (I do this > automatically on a new OEM system anyway, even if it is only to run Windows). > > I then defragmented the registry and the hard disk. > > At that point, I partitioned the disk--making the Windows partition smaller > and adding a "data" partition that would be shared with the Linux install. I > also left as much space free as I wanted for Linux. > > After this, with the machine still booting normally in Windows 7 and > recognizing the data partition, I installed Linux normally and somehow in all > of this Grub2 worked fine and both systems booted normally. > > Grub2 sees the recovery partition as "Windows Vista" and the Win 7 partition > as "Windows 7". > > The resulting 500 GB disk is set up thusly: > > Win 7 primary partition (60 GB) > > Win 7 recovery partition (about 12 GB IIRC). > > Linux root partition (15 GB) > > Second Linux root partition (15 GB, used if I wish to try another distro > without nuking the first) > > Data partition (NTFS) 150 GB > > Linux swap 6 GB > > Linux /home partition (the balance of the disk) > > There is the usual mix of primary and logical partitions involved. > > The space allocation results from doing about 95% of my work in Linux--I keep > Win 7 around simply because I wind up being asked questions by friends, > relatives, and former clients about some Windows concern or another and I > want a working system to refer to. Other than that, I boot it on average > about twice a month to keep it updated. Each of those times takes nearly half > a day by the time all the security updates and version updates are taken care > of. If I didn't have plenty of time to waste in this fashion, Id have given > up Windows long ago. > > David > Wow, I hope at least some of that was overkill but better safe, huh? Sheesh...wonder what the chances are that Netflix will release a Linux player? Right, that was a rhetorical question. Thanks for the detail, David. I'll Paste your account to a doc for future reference. Mark
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