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(ii) Download and Install Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool from : (Official-32-bit-and-64-bit-Direct-Download-Links)

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(i) Download the iso of the Windows 7 Version you have from : But we'll follow the one mostly used and which is the safest. In order to do this, there are many techniques available. The destruction of GPT-Partition tables destroys the boot info and hence it needs to be restored. Part 3: Recovering Master Boot Record of Windows. The final layout will look something like this. Intermediary Process: Almost finished copying files. Intermediary Process: Second, data is copied from later sectors to previous ones. Intermediary Process: First, The partition is expanded Then click on edit and then on 'apply all actions'. You'll get a warning message like this one, but its normal. Now re-size the first partition and add the space before and after it. Keep pressing enter until a screen similar to this appears. (iv) Boot From USB and follow the instructions: (iii) From Windows, install then run the LinuxLive USB Creator program and follow the instructions in the GUI to install GParted Live on your USB flash drive (ii) Download and install LinuxLive USB Creator В on your MS Windows computer. Part 2: Moving/Re-Sizing Hard Disk Partitions: This is required so that error like 'This partition does not start at any physical boundary' don't occur while installing Linux. The partition Structure has been written into the hard disk. Select write and press Enter.Д®verything seems to be done. This will show the list of partitions that you actually want at last. But for the D: Drive (If you have any) choose P. Now select the Recovery Partition & press the side arrow key until * appears. Hit Stop when all the required partitions have been displayed. Because these contain info about booting from GPT-EFI partitions. OK, so in the case of Vaio (after using gdisk),В Partition 1 and Partition 3 are no longer needed. Since the EFI-GPT Combo data-structures have been deleted by gdisk, Intel is the by default highlighted option in this case. (TestDisk automatically detects the Hard Disk and makes the appropriate option as default-highlighted). Whatever the by-default option is, select it. Select the hard disk in which your Windows, Recovery, etc partitions are present. (vii)Now that the disk has been converted to MBR, one needs to recover any partitions that have been lost and mark them as primary. We'll basically open gdisk, go into expert mode and delete GPT partition tables and write MBR.

(v) Time to open a terminal: Press the Windows Key and type terminal Now, if you have a 32-bit image of Ubuntu, then click on the i386 file but if you have the 64-bit image of Ubuntu, then click on select mirror.Д¬lick on Linux, kernel 2.6.18 or later (again, 32-bit=i386 and 64-bit=x86_64) Let the download complete!ДЄlternatively, one can download gdisk from

(iii) Installing gdisk: Note, you should have a working internet connection in order to perform this, otherwise, you can download the required packages before-hand and store them somewhere. In HP, one can boot from USB just by pressing F9 and going to Boot Menu. Then, you have to switch from UEFI Mode to Legacy Mode and Enable Booting From External Drives. In Vaio Laptops, you'll have to go to the BIOS options by pressing F2. (ii) Booting From USB: Now usually, one can boot from USB in Laptops easily. Go through this: В Now, that you have a bootable USB, reboot your system (Yeah, by reboot I mean shutdown and then boot, not hibernate and boot!) (i) Creating Live Mode USB: To use Live Mode of Ubuntu, all you need is a USB Drive having enough space to hold a 700MB file. But changing hex-values of a partition while it is mounted, puff! Therefore, I'll use the live-mode of Ubuntu. For this method, you can perform the required set of operations in windows itself. I'll provide the links for the rest of the steps as we go. I'll be focusing on correcting or rather ' suitableizing' your hard disk configuration for easy Linux installations and get rid of crappy partitions of which there is no need at all. But this is where the important use of two awesome tools gdisk and testdisk chips in. There you go! Once clicked, it is very difficult to revert back. So naturally, while shrinking your hard disk in Windows 7, you generally get an option to change to Dynamic Configuration. (ii) HP guys already have enough number of primary partitions and Linux can't be installed easily (as long as you don't want wubi). (i) Vaio guys have used GPT-EFI configuration for their hard drives whereas the old andВ friendlyВ used to be MBR-BIOS configuration. This is a common issue in most of the latest HP and Vaio Laptops.

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