Can Windows 7 tolerate changes in partition sizes?

[William Muriithi]

On 17 February 2011 14:12, E K <ekg_ab-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> --- On Thu, 2/17/11, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Can Windows 7 tolerate changes in partition sizes?
>> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>> Received: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 12:20 PM
>> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:58:18AM
>> -0500, Kevin Cozens wrote:
>> > My father has asked me about installing Linux on his
>> computer. I'm not
>> > sure what sparked the request but I'm happy to set it
>> up to dual boot.
>> > His computer is running Windows 7. I booted the
>> machine using a live CD
>> > of Ubuntu and verified that everything appeared to be
>> working including
>> > the printer and the WiFi adapter.
>> >
>> > My concern is about whether the OEM version of Windows
>> 7 that came with
>> > the machine is going to complain about the change in
>> partitions and/or
>> > partition sizes and think it may not be an authentic
>> install of the MS
>> > OS.
>> >
>> > I am hoping it is ok but I read about issues with
>> recent versions of
>> > Windows and how some (a few?) system changes can lead
>> to requiring the
>> > purchase of a new copy of Windows as it will no longer
>> accept its a valid
>> > copy running on the same system.
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>> If you use windows itself to shrink the disk, it certainly
>> won't complain.
>> Other tools might upset the boot loader (which can then be
>> fixed using
>> a bootable windows 7 repair disk).
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>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-CA/windows7/Create-a-system-repair-disc
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>> Some installations can't do that for some reason, but there
>> are plenty
>> of iso images out there that people have put up that you
>> can use.
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>> So after resizing with something other than windows'
>> storage manager, you
>> would probably have to use the 'repair boot' option on the
>> recovery disc.
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>> Len Sorensen
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> Or you can install either Oracle's VirtualBox or VMWare server and install Linux as a guest system. By so doing you avoid dual booting all together and can switch between the OSes as you wish.
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> EK
I find it better to set it up as dual boot  or if it has to be
virtualized, I have Windows running on Linux. The main reason I like
setting it up this way is because when Window fails as will often
happen, the user can still get his files without my assistance

I have too resized Window 7 NTFS for Linux installation without a
problem.  As someone said, you need to do backup first in case
something go wrong.

William
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