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| ===== Creating a gparted boot USB stick ===== | ===== Creating a gparted boot USB stick ===== | ||
| - | ===== Choosing the partitions ===== | + | ===== Choosing the partitions for a Windows 7 system ===== |
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| + | Do not forget the following when choosing the new partitions | ||
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| + | * It's probably better to keep the Dell/HP hidden partitions even if you don't know what they are for (you may be able to reduce their size) | ||
| + | * If you have an accelerated disk, leave some empty space (4-8 Mb) at the end of the disk, otherwise you will not be able to re-activate the disk acceleration... | ||
| + | * Keep 85-100 Go for the Windows 7 system C: partition | ||
| + | * Use at least 1 extra partition besides C: and keep all the important information on this partition (not C:) | ||
| + | * You can have a maximum of 4 primary partitions | ||
| + | * The access to the partitions at the beginning of the disk is faster (unless you have a SSD disk) | ||
| + | * Do you need to have some encrypted partitions? | ||
| + | * Are you going to backup full partitions with Clonezilla? | ||
| + | * ... | ||
| ===== Creating the partitions ===== | ===== Creating the partitions ===== | ||
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| ==== Prerequisites ==== | ==== Prerequisites ==== | ||
| + | * WARNING! If you have a mSATA SSD disk to accelerate your system, **you have to [[other:msata|disable the acceleration]]** | ||
| * A gparted boot USB stick | * A gparted boot USB stick | ||
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| - Default keyboard (//Don't touch keymap//) | - Default keyboard (//Don't touch keymap//) | ||
| - Default language (//US English//) | - Default language (//US English//) | ||
| - | - //Continue to start X// | + | - //Continue to start X// and wait for the GParted graphical interface to appear |
| - | - | + | - Select the disk that you want to partition in the pull-down menu |
| + | - **WARNING!** Do not do anything if there is nothing displayed in the //Used// and //Unused// columns. It's possible that you have a cache accelerated disk. **You have to [[other:msata|disable the acceleration]]** before you do anything else | ||
| + | - Check the existing partitions, and decide what the new partitions should be | ||
| + | - **WARNING! WARNING!** If you have an accelerated disk, leave some empty space (4-8 Mb) at the end of the disk, otherwise you will not be able to re-activate the disk acceleration... | ||
| + | - Create the list of partitioning operations | ||
| + | - Apply the list | ||
| + | - Shutdown the machine, remove the USB stick and boot the machine again | ||
| + | - Check in Windows that everything seem correct | ||
| + | - Do not worry if Windows starts an automatic disk check during the first boot! | ||
| + | - Enable the acceleration again | ||
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other/gparted.txt · Last modified: 2014/04/03 13:56 by jypeter
