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Question

Windows 7 Home Premium {Making New Partition "Not Shrink one

by Oct 29, 2011 3:01AM PDT

I have Window 7 Home Premium Installed on My HP Pavilion Dv6 i5 Notebook. I have only 1 Partition. I want to Install another Window and thats why i want to Make Another Partition for it (I Know About Shrinking of Drive but i won't do it because it make the shrinked Partition Dynamic, Which Can not Have OS on it)


SO i want to know that how can i make another Partition Without losing this Win7. Because Once i had Done that ( Shrinked) and install another OS on (Shrinked) and then My Win7 had stopped working and was getting stuck during (ScreenFlash) Please Tell me how can i have an Extra Partition.


**I have an idea, Correct me if i am Wrong;


The idea is that if i Make "System Backup" of C:(45GBUsed : Free400GB) {Control Panel >Back up and Restore >Create a system Backup} on External Drive. And Format Laptop and Make Fresh 50GB New Partition using (Any bootable CD).



So Can i Restore that "BACKUP" on Newly created 50Gb Partition. i think if i could and if it works then this is my Solution. I haven't Tried and i want to know first.

Now i Hope you understand my Problem.

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Sorry no.
by Forum moderator Oct 29, 2011 3:07AM PDT

There are tools like GPARTED that might help but before you use that I suggest you backup the image of that drive so when you mis-step you can recover.

You must shrink a partition and GPARTED can do such without the dynamic issue.

But then you run into how to get that other OS to boot. For XP this becomes a shopping list of issues about the MBR, boot loader and more.

As to your current backup, after seeing that fail I suggest you find another backup as well. I suggest CLONEZILLA.
Bob

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Ok thanks but...
by Submeyar Oct 29, 2011 4:51AM PDT

When i creat <System Image> using Control panel would i need a
100% Free External Drive or will existing data on External drive will be
deleted ??? Please Answer my this Question ..

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This question's answer must be YES.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 29, 2011 6:18AM PDT

Since I see folk lose content every day my answer is to use a blank drive just in case.

Also, it may be useful to reveal what this other OS is. Installing XP after 7 is perilous and in my opinion too hard for folk today. And EXPENSIVE as the real fix is to get a Retail Windows 7 DVD and license.

And if this was UBUNTU then all the above could be dismissed since they handle this for us.
Bob

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Ok
by Submeyar Oct 29, 2011 4:42PM PDT

i want to Install Linux on Logical Partition Which Format Should i select for it "Ext3,4.NTFS"

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Now that's a horse of a different color.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Oct 30, 2011 3:46AM PDT

If you want to install Ubuntu all the above discussion can be tossed out and we boot the Ubuntu CD, answer a few questions and it's installed along with the boot manager.

Besides, I rarely see Linux on a single partition. We usually have 3 partitions such as swap, / and another.

At this point it appears you are working too hard.
Bob

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