Re-Installation Partitions


  1. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    Re-Installation Partitions


    I am attempting to do a clean install of Windows 7 from a re-installation disc. The whole point of this is to completely reformat and create room on my HDD so that there is space for my Windows 7 partition and then extra room for a Linux/other partition, but when I go into the custom options of what partition to install my image of 7 there is no option to reformat the whole hard drive. The only reason I am doing this is because when I've tried to install Ubuntu Linux already the installer recognizes my drive as completely allocated even though I have created room on my current partition. I can supply images and system information I'm just really determined to create a dual boot system, not a virtual machine. Any help is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks T3ch Savy(Sort of)
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  2. Posts : 499
    Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1 / WCP x64 / Ubuntu 11 x64
       #2

    Welcome to SevenForums, T3ch Savy. This detailed tutorial will show you the right way.
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  3. Posts : 87
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
       #3

    free partition tool get the bootable cd version Free Download Magic Partition Manager Software - Partition Wizard Online

    If all the hdd space has been taken to capacity, use the tool to resize win7 partition leave the balance unallocated.
    then you can get linux on the unallocated space,and a second partition for storage for win7 as well.
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  4. Posts : 3,302
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
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    This should be what your looking for tried and tested by 1000s of members here - SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

    Danny
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  5. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
    Thread Starter
       #5

    xxxdannyxxx said:
    This should be what your looking for tried and tested by 1000s of members here - SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

    Danny
    This was exactly what I was looking for thank you very much!! Everything went smoothly(ish) and now I'm posting from my fresh installation. Now to install Ubuntu!
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