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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) tools. |
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> I am lead to believe that the second partition is the back up partition and is |
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> meant to be used to restore the OS in the third partition. This confuses me a |
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> bit - shouldn't the third partition which houses the OS be flagged as bootable |
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> 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-harmony |
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Apparently you can now re-size online partitions with Windows 7 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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W |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire |
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et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton |
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