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Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?



On Sunday 28 June 2009 09:50:52 John L Fjellstad wrote:
> Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a 500GB disk which has Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
> > (64bit) installed on it. Not sure if that is 1 huge partition or not.
> > I assume it is NTFS. Can someone please tell me exactly what I must do
> > to shrink the Vista install by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit
> > AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed.
>
> I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions.  Not sure if
> it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has
> support for it.  A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this.
>
> --
> John L. Fjellstad
> web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Live gparted cd works fine.


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