Drew, Thanks! Windows complained with a chkdsk operation, but now my Windows 7 is snuggled down in its 40 GB space.....where it belongs! ;-)
Mark On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:40 PM, drew wymore <drew.wym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mark Phillips > <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz>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 > > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > > 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 > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug