On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote: > 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.) OK, I'll research how to do that and give it a shot. > 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 Not sure that either of these things will be an issue to me. -larry