I have a new Dell Vostro laptop and I want to add Debian to it. It has Windows 7 Home Premium on it. When I went into the Windows 7 disk manager all I could get was 1/2 of the C partition - 143 GB for Debian, and it reserved the other 143 GB for Windows 7, even though it is only using 16GB of the disk! <br>
 <br>Is this some evil trick by Microsoft to keep people from dual booting, or is there some reason Windows 7 needs all 143 GB for itself when all the files on the disk amount to 16GB??? What am I missing?<br> <br>Can I just use gparted to resize the drive the way I want it - 40GB or 60GB for Windows and the rest for a real operating system like Debian? ;-)<br>
 <br>Thanks!<br> <br>Mark<br>