Seeking advice to install Linux in dual boot with Windows 7
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You should use a title more specific, so more people can help you.
In internet, you can find many tutorial about what you ask.
In general, you must choice a distro (you can see here), I sugggest Linux Mint or Ubuntu and then burn iso into a CD and install it into your free partition.
You can see this tutorial to proceed with the installation.
Have fun.
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Hi. Use 7s partition tool (forget where, systems tools maybe, been a long time since I got rid of it) create free-space then after picking a distro (check the first link in my signature (Debian? )) install to free-space plus GRUB and done. Best wishes and have fun.
Last edited by jamison20000e; 02-16-2014 at 12:43 PM.
If you want a dual-boot, you need to free up some space on your hard drive to install Linux on. To do that, you need to shrink your C: drive partition. Here's how:
In the Start menu, right-click "Computer" and select "Manage".
On the left-hand side, select "Disk Management". (Under "Storage")
Find the box labeled "OS (C",right-click on it, and select "Shrink Volume..."
Wait for a minute or two...
Enter the amount of space that you want to make avalible to install Linux on. Note that you enter the value in MEGABYTES. 1 GB = 1024 MB. I recommend at least 8 GB, but you might want more depending on what you plan on doing.
Click "Shrink"
Wait...
You should now see a section marked "Unallocated". This is what we mean by "Free space".
During the Linux installation, you will need to format the partition with a Linux filesystem. You usually do this during the installation process.
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)) install to free-space plus GRUB and done. Best wishes and have fun. 
",right-click on it, and select "Shrink Volume..."
