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    how to Dual Boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows 7

    If it is a fresh install of both it is usually better to install Windows first, leaving an empty partition, or unpartitioned space, sufficient to install CentOS. If Windows already occupies the whole disk you will need to shrink the Windows partition to make room. The CentOS installer, due to the preferences of TUV, does not directly support this. Tools such as gparted should be able to do it. Another approach is to do a "dummy" minimal install of a recent release of something like Ubuntu which does support shrinking an NTFS partition, then install CentOS over the Linux partitions. The dummy install can be killed after partitioning is complete.

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    Re: how to Dual Boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows 7

    if you want to install fresh copies of centos and windows 7 it is recommended that you install windows first, and leave some unpartitioned space on the drive. it must be able to install and run centos safely if you had window installed first and it occupies the whole space on the disk then you will have to shrink the drive to enough space for the centos to be installed on the drive. then after doing that you will have to use a third party software for that like gparted .

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    Re: how to Dual Boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows 7

    the centos operating system will recognize the windows partition on the drive and will enable a grub entry point in its menu. then it will show a start-up menu which contains centos and others there i recommend you to change the name from the default others to some thing more appropriate.and then the grub will directly and goes on the mbr. and even if you would all change yet centos will give more options.

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    Re: how to Dual Boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows 7

    duel booting is a good method when you want to use the same computer for installing two operating systems it is kind of good feature in all the Linux but windows does not recognize the file systems partitioned and formatted by Linux. but Linux does recognize the windows. if you go and install windows after the centos the windows will not show the partition of Linux it just shoes that there are unknown file system.

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    Re: how to Dual Boot CentOS 5.5 and Windows 7

    good point there but let me tell more if i am not wrong the windows uses ntfs and fat 32 file system but on the other hand the Linux uses ext,ext2,ext3 file system type. there are many different types of file system available in the market it depend on what are you going to use it for. after considering that only go for this. there are many significant features in the linux system.

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