[PLUG] Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

[Dale F. Victor]

Hello!
I am running a dual boot system Kubuntu 9.10 I think and Windows 7, they are 
on the same disk. Since this is a desktop machine I just let the install go to 
default and I ended up with a partition of about 250 for each. Everything 
works great, I do use the Windows 7 system as I have moved to a 64 bit 
processor and I am to lazy to set up wine on a 64 bit processor to run 32 bit 
programs. So far there has been no problem.

Just a note,

Dale F. Victor
Astoria, Oregon
member of this group for over ten years now. I used to live in Portland.

On Tuesday 22 December 2009 06:28:24 pm Mark Phillips 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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