--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "dbneeley" <dbneeley@...> wrote:
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> I saw a problem with one computer running Win 7 in making it a dual boot system. To fix it, I did quite a bit--but some of what I did was probably overkill. However, to give a rundown:
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> First, I did a clean reinstall of Windows 7 from the rescue partition on the machine.
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> (I also made a set of recovery DVD's (five of the darned things in the case of Win 7 Home Premium!) so I'd have them if anything wound up trashing the recovery partition.)
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> Next, I removed all the "crapware" the manufacturer had installed--the "free trials" and such that junk up an OEM Windows system so often. (I do this automatically on a new OEM system anyway, even if it is only to run Windows).
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> I then defragmented the registry and the hard disk.
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> At that point, I partitioned the disk--making the Windows partition smaller and adding a "data" partition that would be shared with the Linux install. I also left as much space free as I wanted for Linux.
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> After this, with the machine still booting normally in Windows 7 and recognizing the data partition, I installed Linux normally and somehow in all of this Grub2 worked fine and both systems booted normally.
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> Grub2 sees the recovery partition as "Windows Vista" and the Win 7 partition as "Windows 7".
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> The resulting 500 GB disk is set up thusly:
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> Win 7 primary partition (60 GB)
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> Win 7 recovery partition (about 12 GB IIRC).
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> Linux root partition (15 GB)
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> Second Linux root partition (15 GB, used if I wish to try another distro without nuking the first)
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> Data partition (NTFS) 150 GB
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> Linux swap 6 GB
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> Linux /home partition (the balance of the disk)
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> There is the usual mix of primary and logical partitions involved.
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> The space allocation results from doing about 95% of my work in Linux--I keep Win 7 around simply because I wind up being asked questions by friends, relatives, and former clients about some Windows concern or another and I want a working system to refer to. Other than that, I boot it on average about twice a month to keep it updated. Each of those times takes nearly half a day by the time all the security updates and version updates are taken care of. If I didn't have plenty of time to waste in this fashion, Id have given up Windows long ago.
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> David
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Wow, I hope at least some of that was overkill but better safe, huh? Sheesh...wonder what the chances are that Netflix will release a Linux player? Right, that was a rhetorical question.
Thanks for the detail, David. I'll Paste your account to a doc for future reference.
Mark
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