

Now make /dev/sda4 your SWAP partition at the end.įinally, you can create logical parttions as you like, for data ir for testing or for archives of mp3s or movies, or however you like to sort your data. ie, if you have 2Gb RAM, make the extended partition everything minus 4096Mb at the end. Create /dev/sda2 as an 8Gb (8192Mb) ext4 primary partition using gParted.Ĭreate an extended partition as /dev/sda3 using everything except some space at the end, the size of your computer's RAM x 2.

After you've got Office running and all good, shutdown and boot back to the Linux Live-CD. Now you've got Win 7 running on the new hard disk. Then shut it down and install Windows 7 from the DVD. Can you connect the two hard disks at once, with the new one as /dev/sda (hd0) and the old one as /dev/sdb (hd1)? Then if you can, use the gParted on the Live CD to partition the new drive with 16Gb for Windows 7 on the first primary partition of the new disk.
