Debian dual boot with Windows 7

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I doubt the first drive would slow down your system.
Right now see if gparted can resize your system so you have a reasonable
amount of space for Linux. There is no way Windows 7 needs 500GB.

On 05/09/2010 11:45 AM, James Kramer wrote:
> I guess that I could buy a new hard drive in the future and have one
> drive for Windows and the second for Linux.  The hard drive currently
> on my system is SATA2.  However, my motherboard is set to handle SATA3
> so I was planning to upgrade in the future.  I did have concerns that
> if I upgrade to SATA3 that the SATA2 drive would slow down the entire
> system since it would dictate the speed.
>
> Maybe I will just let window resize my partition to 500Gb using the
> Window7 provided software and then use the remaining 500Gb for Linux.
>
> This will be the easiest route to go.  I will probably be able to get
> a 100Tb SATA 3 next year for $100.
>
>  =20

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