On 01/30/2012 03:14 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > I have a Windows 7 laptop that I want to make dual boot with CentOS > 6.2. My plan was to use the Windows Disk Management tool to partition > the disk, but I do not have the needed admin rights on the box to use > that. Has anyone used the partitioning tool that comes with 6.2 to do > this? Can I have some level of confidence that it will not mess things > up so that I cannot boot into Windows? if it screws up and makes > Windows unbootable that would be a Very Bad Thing. > > Thanks! > -larry First make backup of the MBR (some Linux software save them elsewhere on the disk.) I used CentOS 6.2 DVD to partition Windows 7 partitons, amongst all others. But take notice that regular CentOS DVD/LiveDVD has no ntfs support so you will not be able to format them with NTFS. You can however create them as FAT32 and re-format them from windows. CentOS 6.2 DVD can also align partitions for new 4k sector HDD's -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant