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Advice needed prior to hard drive install
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old-user
Joined: 22 Feb 2013 Posts: 5 |
I am currently running Windows 7 and i would like to install Precise Puppy alongside Windows 7. What i would like to know is, could i open up windows 7 and reduce the amount of disk space by about 10 or 20 GB and then create a new partition and swap partition and then carry on the install procedure? Thanks. |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7736 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Puppy has a tool called Gparted for resizing and creating partitions. But do NOT use it to resize a Win7 partition! There have been reports that it will break Windows. However, Win7 has a disk management tool that will safely shrink its own partition. Then you can boot off a Puppy CD and run Gparted to build some Linux partitions in the new empty space. Your next issue will be to install a bootloader on the hard drive that can dual-boot your Win7 and Puppy. If you have no experience with this, I would suggest that you get an old machine to practice on. There is a chance that you could disable your Win7 setup if you make a mistake with the bootloader. |
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old-user
Joined: 22 Feb 2013 Posts: 5 |
Hi rcrsn51 I do know how to use the disk management tool in Windows and i thought Windows provided a bootloader so as to safely boot either OS. Shall have to wait until i am sure. Thanks for your reply and helpful advice. |
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7736 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Read here about EasyBCD. Also, read here and here. |
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old-user
Joined: 22 Feb 2013 Posts: 5 |
Yes i do have EasyBCD on my machine. Interesting and informative links. Shall have a good read later. Thanks! |
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rjbrewer
 Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4349 Location: merriam, kansas |
You can shrink Win 7 from within Win 7 itself. Defragment and make backup first. I've used Gparted to shrink Win 7 a few times, but care must be taken to first defragment Win, and right after shrinking, boot Win so it runs checkdisk. This is risky and I wouldn't have done it without a repair disk and backup image. _________________ Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram. Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram. Full installs |
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