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On Sunday, February 12, 2012 09:48:34 AM ACro wrote: > Hi Arief, > > > Now I have another problem, how to move all this partition (and > > turn some of them into extended partitions) without destroying them. > > Guess I'll need to rediscover dd. > > I've met a similar problem and it could be solved happily. You must have > some understanding of partitioning. > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Partition/ > > First, it sounds like you have four primary partitions, with no extended > partition among them: even if you shrink one, the resulting free space > will be unusable because you can't create other partitions. In order to > have more than four partitions, one of them *must* be extended: this > allows you to create logical partitions into it. > > > the partition scheme is more-or-less like this: > > > > 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper partition (I > > read something about it, forgotten now) > > 960 GB Windows partition > > 20GB Recovery partion > > 10M another part of recovery partition > > The following is what, in my opinion, you should do: > > 1) First, make a backup of your partitions. > 2) Delete the last two Windows recovery partitions and remember their > sizes: you will re-create them later (you can't move around partitions, or > turn a primary into an extended!). 2) Start your Debian installer. > 3) Resize your Windows partition with Debian's partitioning tool: this will > inform you about the minimum size the partition must be, according to the > volume of Windows' data (but leave your partition larger than this). 4) > Re-create, at the end of the disk, the partitions you deleted: they must > be *logical* partitions (this automatically creates an extended > partition). 5) In the free space left in between, create your Debian > system, as usually. Your first Debian partition can be primary, the others > must be logical. Finish the installation and install GRUB in your MBR. 6) > Now you can dual-boot. > 7) Re-create the NTFS filesystems of both new Windows partitions and > restore data in them. 8) Read the partitioning HOWTO ;-) > > Good luck, > Andrew Andrew, I tried to do as you said, I also have windows in a 1TB drive. How ever after shrinking win7-64 and installing Linux on the now extended partition, windows would not boot!!!! On re-installing windows, everythig was set back to "normal" ie no Linux partition just windows. Gerald |