Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

[Stephen]

when i dual booted W7/Ubuntu I just used the tools from the Ubuntu
install and it was fine.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> 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!
>
> 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?
>
> 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? ;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
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