Tuesday, September 2, 2014

windows 7 - 1 TB hdd and no space to create a partition for linux !

I have a brand new Acer aspire 5811 with core i5 processor and all that.


There is windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed on it. I want to install arch and setup a dual boot system.



EDIT: Looks like I have also another
issue. I have a dynamic disk. I really
don't know what it could be, but it
apparently means that I cannot use
Gparted (or any linux based tool) to
delete the recovery partition. Windows
7 disk management tool doesn't allow
me to delete it.



The problem is:


Windows shows 4 partitions



  1. 14 GB UNKNOWN recovery partition

  2. 100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7

  3. 448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition

  4. 468GB NTFS Data partition for windows 7


But GpartedLive cd and also arch setup show 5 partitions



  1. 938Kb UNKOWN system reserved partition

  2. 14 GB UNKNOWN recovery partition

  3. 100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7

  4. 448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition

  5. 468GB unusable space


Because of this, I cannot create another primary partition.


Can any body guide me about how should I go for creating partition for installing arch ?


Note: I need to keep windows 7 working.


regards.

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