Hard disk partition on Original windows 7 Home Premium

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Hard disk partition on Original windows 7 Home Premium
# 1  
Old 02-28-2013
Hard disk partition on Original windows 7 Home Premium

Respected Members,
I am using compaq CQ41, with factory install windows 7, there is three drives namely (local Disk( c: ) 158 GB free of 281 GB), (RECOVERY( D: ) 2.69 GB free of 16.7GB) and (HP_TOOLS( E: ) 92.7 MB free of 99.3 MB).

i don't want to lost it,but want to make my system dual boot, so that i can use LINUX, for that purpose i want to make partition in "Local Disk ( c: )" .

I have use "Shrink volume" under "Computer Management" but it shrinks only 5271 MB.

Please show me the way

Thanks and regards
Vijay Tyagi

---------- Post updated 03-01-13 at 07:53 AM ---------- Previous update was 02-28-13 at 03:25 PM ----------

I have achive half gole, i delete all unwanted data and then do disk defragmentation, then reboot the system and then shrink the disk and now i get a partition of 115 GB, but this partition is not showing by computer during reboot to install another OS(Linux Mint 14), so that my copmuter can become dual boot.
Thanks and Regards
Vijay Tyagi
# 2  
Old 03-01-2013
First in Windows, go to disk management and create a "new partition using existing free space"
Next Install linux selecting this partition. You can choose to format the new partition during Linux installation. Do this carefully, make sure that you are choosing the correct partition.
# 3  
Old 07-06-2013
If your still working on this, I did a similar job with Ubuntu Linux.
When you have your space allocated for Linux Mint, I wouldnt create a partition from windows, leave it unallocated.
When you start the computer with your Linux Mint CD, you should be able to partition it from within the installation. I did this with Ubuntu.
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Solaris

Copied prtvtoc to original disk

Hi, It is Solaris-10 with ZFS. c0t1d0 is original disk. c0t0d0 was faulty disk, which was replaced with new one and by mistake somebody ran opposite command # prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 Now rpool is in suspended state. Right now server is up, but allowing ssh... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: solaris_1977
6 Replies

2. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Ask concept soft partition vs hard partition

Hi Experts I would like to know different between soft partition concept and hard partition concept on solaris. Here is little explanation between soft partition concept and hard partition concept on solaris. Soft Partition: 1TB total space available in storage in all mapped to the OS to... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: edydsuranta
2 Replies

3. Linux

C++ Code to Access Linux Hard Disk Sectors (with a LoopBack Virtual Hard Disk)

Hi all, I'm kind of new to programming in Linux & c/c++. I'm currently writing a FileManager using Ubuntu Linux(10.10) for Learning Purposes. I've got started on this project by creating a loopback device to be used as my virtual hard disk. After creating the loop back hard disk and mounting it... (23 Replies)
Discussion started by: shen747
23 Replies

4. Solaris

hard disk broken, relocate user's home dir. All setting missing

Hi, guys I am a super newbie in solaris admin.... Now I got a problem. Due to the broken of one of Raid system, some user home directory is missing. Someone advises me to relocate the home directory on the new drive. I have googled and have tried " usermode -d " command. But I found a... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: dr_dw
3 Replies

5. Solaris

Replacing a hard disk (SVM) with a soft partition?

The following is the summarry:- 1) Four disks in server ie (c1t0d0. c1t1d0, c1t2d0, c1t3d0). c1t2d0 is the disk to be replaced. c1t0d0 and c1t2d0 are mirrors. c1t1d0 and c1t3d0 are mirrors. Metadb to be deleted is in c1t2d0s7 a) Mirror d35 has 2 submirrors d38 and d39 d38 is a stripe... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: aji1729
0 Replies

6. SCO

declare disk driver for IDE hard disk

hi I've a fresh installation of SCO 5.0.7 on the IDE hard disk. For SCSI hard disk I can declare, for example blc disk driver using: # mkdev hd 0 SCSI-0 0 blc 0but it works for IDE hard disk? (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ccc
3 Replies

7. Solaris

Puzzled over over the relationship between the partition and geometry of hard disk.

Not sure why solaris couldn't detect the geometry of a hard disk which has a working OS of winxp pro. Is it due to the different OS that the partition information is stored in different location? When I type '"format" it is shown as below, c3d1 < drive type unknown>... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: just.srad
5 Replies

8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hard-disk partition is Full problem?

HI, Currently I am working in One of the webhosting company and I found on one of my server "/home" partition is getting full say 105% usage... But when I actually check the partition size using "du -h", exact partition utilization is only 60-70%. So... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jagdish.machhi@
1 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Partition Hard drive

Hello everyone. I am new to Linux so hope some one could help me here. I have a 30 Gb HD and windows Xp is my O/S, HD is not partitioned,but I want to Partitioned it, so I could Install Knoppix(Linux)on one of the partitioned one, how could I do this? OR should I erase every thing and then... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: amir
1 Replies

10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Unix and Windows on 1 hard disk

I have one hard disk on my computer ( 8 Giga-bytes) and i installed windows 98 on drive C ( I have 4 drives : C , D , E , F which drive has 2 Giga-bytes space on it ) On which drive ( from 4 drives ) I have a lot data for example : on drive D I store most of my programs which i downloaded from... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: yoffe_adi
7 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question