On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Mick wrote: > > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The > > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is > > flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) > > tools. I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up > > partition and is meant to be used to restore the OS in the third > > partition. This confuses me a bit - shouldn't the third partition which > > houses the OS be flagged as bootable instead? > > Take a look at this > http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-har > mony Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 > itself. > > Google also suggests you can chainload Windows 7 in the usual way using > grub.
Thank you both for your replies. If I were to choose GRUB to chainload W7 what should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS partition 3? If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent - whatever this technology might be - will I be able to chainload GRUB from it? -- Regards, Mick
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