[PLUG] Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

[Mark Phillips]

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.wymore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Mark Phillips
> <mark at 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
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> Mark,
> It's a limitation in Vista and Win7 forever whatever reason. Parted will
> work just fine.
>
> Drew-
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