How do I need to partition the hard drive: how many partitions do I need to make primary for Windows 7 and Linux? If I install Windows 7 in one partition will it partition itself? Would I need a Recovery partition if I have an installation DVD? I'm not sure what that is used for.
Running the Windows 7 on a virtual machine sounds interesting, I just don't know if my computer would be up to that and whether I have the time to study and set that up. Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "TekBudda" <tekbu...@gmail.com> To: "CLUG General" <clug-talk@clug.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 4:59:40 AM Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Dual Install I did something similar with a laptop I bought a year or so ago. Using Windows 7 & Kubuntu. I don't believe I touched the recovery partitions or anything like that. Everything went pretty smoothly actually until I tried to view my partitions in Windows & they disappeared. I did lose some data but it gave me a chance to re-visit & re-structure things. I set it up again & it was only recently (truthfully no sure when) that I lost access to my Windows 7 partition & am not 100% on in the Kubuntu side. It could have been an update or something else. Not sure why because I am not sure when it happened. I did try to set-up a shared partition between the two with the hope of using the same Thunderbird (and others) profile information from both. I think I also set-up the partitions as fairly minimal at first (i.e. 100 GB or so) & then when re -did it split things a bit more equitably based on my usage...so about 250 GB for Windows & the rest Linux. I am looking to re-install things on the laptop but this time I will likely make a full Linux partition & likely with Windows 7 as a virtual machine. I still want to try to be able to share information between the two though so will need to look into how to do that more effectively then I have in the past. On 13-09-23 08:00 PM, Joe Shuttleworth wrote: > I have a laptop with Windows 7 installed and would like to install Linux with > it. I have the following partitions: > 15G recovery partition > 100M system partition > 625G C: > All these are ntfs filesystems and primary partitions > > From what I understand I need to shrink the C: and install Linux in extra > space. Do I need to do anything with the other partitions? Is there anything > I need to do to prepare for this? I have dual booted with Linux and XP, but > not with any other Windows. I have downloaded SystemRescueCd from > http://www.sysresccd.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
