Hi Fred sounds like you know what your doing for sure this is my harddrive My C: Dive NTFS 1.13TB Used 45.74GB Unused 1.09 TB System Primary do I need to to create two partitions one for the bootdual and the other for centos just asking that's all. if I wish to use 500 GB how do I put that into a volume mike > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 21:24:17 -0400 > From: fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] (no subject) > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 05:32:05PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 6/8/2015 5:21 PM, michael wright wrote: > > >Hi I am running windows 7 professional and the lastest centos7 x86 now if I wish to partition the hard since I have 2TB harddrive what volume would I need to set that at many thanks mike > > > > > > > > windows 7 defaults to creating a partition on the entire disk and > > leaving no free unpartitioned space. that leaves you with nowhere > > to install anything else. > > > > that's not hard to fix with the gparted live CD. > 1. boot windows, defrag the partition(s). > 2. shut down windows. > 3. boot gparted live > 4. in my experience the "main" windows partition is nearest the end, > so using gparted, shrink it enough to leave adequate space for > Centos. I won't go into how to use gparted, it's not hard, so you > can surely figure it out (I did!:) > 5. boot windows and let it do its thing with "repairing" the disk. > 6. run your Centos installer, being sure NOT to let it mess with > your windows partition(s). > 7. see my other note about how to get it to dual boot with windows. > > > -- > ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- > "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his > glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior > be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before > all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." > ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos