[clue-tech] Windows 7 recommendation

[David L. Willson]

You'll probably need admin to shrink partitions, too. Try booting a Peter Nordahl NT Password Reset CD. That'll let you reset your admin pw, and then you can do what you need to do, logged in as the local administrator.

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
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----- "Jason Friedman" <jason at powerpull.net> wrote:

> > Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users.
> It  can
> > install and uninstall Ubuntu in the same way as any other Windows
>  application.
> > It's simple and safe.
> 
> Thanks, Brian, for the link.  Neat concept.  I'm guessing I will not
> be able to use it, though, without administrative privileges.  I
> could
> not even install PuTTy.
> 
> Thanks, everyone, for your comments.  I made a start today and
> quickly
> ran into a new twist:  Windows 7, unlike XP, is installed across all
> four partitions of my hard drive.  When I tried to install Ubuntu my
> only choice was to wipe the entire disk.  The solution, I learned, is
> to use a built-in Windows utility to shrink the size of the partition
> it uses, and _then_ install Linux.  Most of the sites that discuss
> this technique recommend making a rescue CD to boot Windows.  I did
> not have such a CD with me, so I will try again tomorrow.
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