Can't create dual boot with Windows 7 and Fedora 21
Hi,
I am new to Linux and unable to understand the reason for not being able to install Fedora Live 21 KDE Spin 64 bit as a dual boot with Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. I decided on a dual boot as this provides me an opportunity to get to know the OS without sacrificing productivity.
I have AMD Athlon APU 5150 with Gigabyte AM1M-S2H motherboard. HDD is Seagate 1 TB (931 GB of total space) with 8 GB of RAM.
I installed Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.18 to check compatibility before a physical installation. I created a fixed disk of 100 GB. I created 2 partitions for Win 7 Pro 32 bit with NTFS formatting and left 51 GB of unallocated space for Fedora (64 bit). Fedora installed without any issues and I was able to run both OS through dual boot.
I then started the physical installation on my HDD with 2 partitions for Windows and 511 GB of unallocated space for Fedora 21 Live KDE Spin 64 bit. The installation stopped at the partitioning screen. The installer was asking me to free up more space from my existing partition which surprised me since there were no issues in VirtualBox.
I could not shrink the Windows volume anymore, while I had my data in the second partition. I am not comfortable with the idea of a clean installation of Windows again since I can install Windows only 3 times.
This being a learning period where I might have to install everything again in the learning process is a consideration that makes me uncomfortable with the idea of a clean install of Windows.
What am I missing here in the process of creating a dual boot of Win 7 and Fedora?
Thanks to everyone in advance for any help in this situation.
Regards sidcss
Can you update your question with something that shows your partition layout?
sudo parted -l
would be my preference.Hi randomuser, The command that you are refering to does not seem to be a Windows command. Anyway, the partition sizes were - Windows (C Drive) - 300 GB, Data (D Drive) - 120 GB and 511 GB of unallocated space for Fedora totalling 931 GB.
I have been trying to free up space from my existing partitions. I have uninstalled programs, used a registry cleaner to clean the registry and then did a compaction of the registry. I will have to shrink the partition again. With the data partition - I think I should be able to get an additional 10-12 GB.
Regards sidcss
Right, that's a linux command. After booting a Fedora live image, you can open a terminal and run the command.