Dual Booting Debian Wheezy Together With Windows 7

My ASUS CM6870 desktop figurer came pre-installed alongside Windows 7. The next outlines the steps to laid dual kicking of Debian Wheezy together with Windows 7.

1. Re-partition your difficult drive.

   Initially, Windows takes upwardly the entire difficult drive. Two 'letter' drives were allocated on this disk: C, together with D. The C: displace holds the Windows organization alongside plenty of unused space. The D: displace stores user data, together with is practically empty.

   Before installing Linux, you lot demand to re-partition the difficult displace to allocate infinite to Linux.

   I used the native Windows vii Disk Manager for the task. Specifically, I shrunk the C: displace together with deleted the D: displace entirely. Be certain that you lot piece of job out plenty unused infinite inwards the C: displace to concur time to come user data.

2. Create Debian install media.
   • Download the install ISO ikon from the Debian spider web site. I chose the Live install ISO.
   • Burn the ISO onto a CD or DVD.

     If you lot are going to dual kicking alongside Windows 7, don't re-create the iso onto the USB stick. The Debian installer running from the USB stick boots inwards EFI mode. Your Windows vii organization was well-nigh probable installed inwards BIOS mode. As a result, the Debian installer may non unwrap the Windows vii partitions. You may non survive able to kicking into Windows vii if you lot run the Linux installer from the USB stick.

3. Insert Live CD/DVD together with reboot.
4. In the kicking menu, select Graphical Install, together with follow the on-screen instructions.
5. At the Partition Disks step, select Manual.

   To save the existing Windows partitions, manually configure the disk.

6. While installing the GRUB bootloader, the installer volition unwrap other operating systems residing on the difficult disk.
   

   In this case, it does unwrap a Windows operating system: Vista (rather than Windows 7). That is 'normal' for Windows 7. Click Continue.

7. Continue alongside the instructions on the enshroud until you lot complete the installation.

The side past times side fourth dimension you lot reboot the computer, the bootloader volition display a carte which includes Windows vii likewise equally Debian Wheezy.

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