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Nov. 14th, 2012 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chhotiiToday we installed Linux on a PC that needs to also continue to run Windows 7.
We were a little stuck on this last week. Apparently HP ships these computers with 4 partitions already on the drive-- SYSTEM, C, HP_RECOVERY, and HP_TOOLS. The openSUSE installer doesn't seem to know what to do with this, except to offer to blow away Windows. The answer is to shrink the C partition from inside Windows, and delete the HP_TOOLS partition. Then the openSUSE installer will offer the option to set up a bunch of extended partitions and it all seems to work fine now.
Why even have the HP_TOOLS partition? I think you can just download that stuff from HP if you ever need it. It looks to me like they went to 4 partitions just to deter people who want to set up dual-boot. Is Microsoft behind some effort to discourage dual-booting? Because, hey, if you boot into Linux, you might never switch back.
Or am I just being paranoid?
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