On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 09:56:18AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Michael Wright > <michael_j.w09 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all I have downloaded centos and burn the iso file every time I install centos it deletes my windows 7 what am I doing wrong mike > > This lacks sufficient detail to answer your question, I can only > speculate that somehow you're telling the installer to delete the > Windows 7 installation. > > Since CentOS install media doesn't include ntfsprogs (I haven't > checked if 7.1 does), it's not possible to shrink NTFS in the CentOS > installer. You'd have to do the shrink in Windows, and then Anaconda > will install by default into the resulting free space. unfortunately, even having done that, Anaconda/Grub2 will not create a dual-boot setup because the default installs do not include ntfs-3g or ntfsprogs. I've posted a recipe before for making a grub2 dual-boot setup AFTER the installation, I can do it again if anyone needs it, but otherwise won't clutter up the list with another copy of it . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------