Help Resizing Windows 7 Partition for Debian Install

[Joseph Sinclair]

NTFS places it's allocation "database" in the center of it's partition, and that may be what's blocking your resize (I'm not terribly familiar with Win7, so YMMV).
You might be able to use gparted from the Linux side, although a good backup is strongly recommended if you take that approach.
Alternatively, a resize, reboot, repair may move the file tables and allow you to resize to 1/2 again.

Mark Phillips 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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