On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 22:52 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 10:38 -0800, Alan Evans wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I just got a brand-new machine with Windows 7 pre-installed on its > > massive hard drive. Of course, Fedora is more my style, but I'd like > > to keep the original OS intact and dual boot. > > > > My question is this then: How safe is it really to allow the installer > > to resize the existing partition with Win7 already there? I saw that > > it had the option, but I was terrified to try it. > > I've not had any problems, but if you're unsure, Windows can shrink its > own partitions. It's in the Disk Utility or whatever it's called. If you do it that way, be sure to keep a copy of your partition table before you start. I've had Windows Disk Utility blow away non-Windows partitions while doing simple stuff to Windows. (Yes, apparently, I just attract trouble when it comes to disk partitions...) Of course there aren't any non-Win partitions on this installation, but once you are dual booting, beware. > > Of course you would have to boot it to do that ... > > poc > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines