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Re: [LUG] Dual Boot Windows 7

 

>
> This and Steven's suggestions are mostly fine: you however do *not* want
> to perform partition resizing from within windows (it may not even be
> possible depending on the type of partition, i.e., dynamic vs simple
> volume) especially if you have one single boot volume (200Mb 'loader'
> partition + the rest of the disk as your NTFS data partition).
> Partitioning secondary or tertiary non-OS disks from within windows is
> fine however.
>
> You will be best served by obtaining the gparted live CD and booting
> from that to initially resize your windows partition. This will make
> windows panic initially after the resize operation and it will want to
> run a chkdisk on your first boot afterwards.

I once started trying to use Debian to repartition and to cut a long story
short I had to go through the whole process of windows updates and
reinstall programs, something I am trying to avoid a second time ;)

Anyway will try this evening: getting work done in Windows is too time
consuming

-- 
Henry


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