It is worth mentioning here that windows 7 does include the tools to grow and shrink partitions although it can not move them. start ->run dismmgmt.msc then right click the partition and select shrink. At a wild guess you have a recovery partition, a system partition and data partition. If you don't already you'll want NVDA installed to read the screen or something else. You can do all grow/shrink things from the command-line in windows if you run diskpart look on m$ knowledge base for info however stuff like this works: diskpart list disk select disk 1 list partition select partition 2 shrink size=300G something to be aware of, Windows 7 will blast your boot loader if you reinstall it and it's not as simple as installing the mbr back again as it once was as the loader in windows 7 got bigger. If you install something other than windows 7 loader to mbr, make sure you have a way of putting the old stuff back, I usually back up the first track with dd. dd if=/dev/sda count=63 of=track0.img If you put Linux boot loader in mbr then you can configure that to boot windows if desired. I usually find it best to have at least 1 primary partition for Linux I personally make it /boot regards, Kerry. On 24/11/2011 2:08 AM, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > My new laptop came with Windows 7 installed on it, and I want to create > space on the HD to install Linux. I was expecting Windows to be in > a single partition, but I find it is spread over three partitions, > occupying the entire 500 GB disk. > > Any tips about how to handle this twist would be appreciated. I might > never use windows, but others might, if I can preserve it. > > -- > Chuck in Hudson. > Web address: www.hallenbeck.ftml.net, Messenger JID: chuckh1 at jabber.org > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
