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On Saturday 13 February 2010 17:13:51 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 03:09:35PM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > I bought a Dell XPS laptop which seems to have 3 primary partitions. The |
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> > third partition is where Windows 7 resides, while the second partition is |
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> > flagged as bootable. The first partition contains some Dell (recovery) |
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> > tools. I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up |
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> > partition and is meant to be used to restore the OS in the third |
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> > partition. This confuses me a bit - shouldn't the third partition which |
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> > houses the OS be flagged as bootable instead? |
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> Take a look at this |
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> http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-har |
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> mony Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 |
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> itself. |
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> Google also suggests you can chainload Windows 7 in the usual way using |
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> grub. |
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Thank you both for your replies. If I were to choose GRUB to chainload W7 |
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what should I point it to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the |
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main W7 OS partition 3? |
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If I were to use W7's NTLDR equivalent - whatever this technology might be - |
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will I be able to chainload GRUB from it? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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