Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I have NO interest in dual boot. I simply want to wipe the disk and
> install Jessie. I have last weeks weekly build of
> debian-testing-i3k6-xfce-CD-1.iso.
> I starts nicely like I have seen many times before, but when I get to
> partitoning the HD there is trouble. It won't overwrite the NTFS
> partitions that contain Windows 7. I think I have read about this and
> there is some special trick, but I can't find it. Please, someone. Help.
> Point me to the directions.
I ran into that myself with a couple of installs. Turned out the NTFS
partition was shot, and needed a run through chkdsk (-r?). Once that
completed, a reboot back to the liveCD allowed me to deal with the drives
using gparted.
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