On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > Hello! > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer > to resize the existing partition with Win7 already there? I saw that > it had the option, but I was terrified to try it. > > At this point, I've never booted the OEM hard drive. I just > immediately plugged in the drive from my previous computer and booted > F11 to check for basic hardware compatibility, so the machine's drive > is yet-untouched. Why not just install F12 on the *other* HD and leave the OEM one as is? Least then if you have to reinstall Win7/restore it won't destroy anything else. -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "Best lil town on Earth!" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
