Most first timers don't need to nuke their Windows installation, mess with re-sizing a hard drive, or hassle with dual booting. Most laptops and PCs are capable of running Fedora or any other OS in a virtual environment. 

Get and install the windows version of VirtualBox, VmWare Workstation or VmWare Player. VMWare Workstation costs money. There's zero cost for either VmWare Player or VirtualBox. You should have at least 2 GB RAM installed on your machine (1 GB for Windows and 1 GB for the virtual machine). You should have at least 500 MB of disk space available for creation of a virtual disk drive.


On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 7:38 PM, jd1008 <jd1008@gmail.com> wrote:


On 07/03/2015 08:27 PM, g wrote:

On 07/03/15 20:58, jd1008 wrote:> On 07/03/2015 07:17 PM, g wrote:

then you are recommending something that you have no experiance with?
I mean the util did not have or report such issues.
It just shrunk sda1 and I had plenty of room to add p2 and p3.

Win7 was perfectly bootable afterwards.
so you are making a valid presumption.


Not sure I am making a presumption.
All I can say is that I did not have any issues
with rebooting windows after the shrink.
By the way: Original sda1 was the whole free space
of nearly 1TB.
After shrinkage, sda1 became little over 320GB (which
I thought was sufficient enough for future windows usage
to not only download new files, but also to have plenty
of room for windows swap files.
Like you said, some people have all the fun :)




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