I have a brand new Acer aspire 5811 with core i5 processor and all that.
There is windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed on it. I want to install arch and setup a dual boot system.
EDIT: Looks like I have also another
issue. I have a dynamic disk. I really
don't know what it could be, but it
apparently means that I cannot use
Gparted (or any linux based tool) to
delete the recovery partition. Windows
7 disk management tool doesn't allow
me to delete it.
The problem is:
Windows shows 4 partitions
- 14 GB UNKNOWN recovery partition
- 100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7
- 448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition
- 468GB NTFS Data partition for windows 7
But GpartedLive cd and also arch setup show 5 partitions
- 938Kb UNKOWN system reserved partition
- 14 GB UNKNOWN recovery partition
- 100MB NTFS System Reserved partition for Windows 7
- 448GB NTFS Windows 7 system partition
- 468GB unusable space
Because of this, I cannot create another primary partition.
Can any body guide me about how should I go for creating partition for installing arch ?
Note: I need to keep windows 7 working.
regards.
Best Answer
You can't shrink or create new ones because you already have four primary partitions.
You can't create more than 4 primary partitions and you already have all them: Recovery and System reserved are allways primary; Windows 7 by default create a primary one.
Recommendation: Delete the "Data" partition and shrink the windows 7 to 100gb or so, then create a new extended partition. Then all new partitions will be logical partitions inside the extended one. Place your data partition there and all your linux partitions inside that extended partition.